B99 (Oculus Rift)

Price at Time Of Review: £10.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Action
Supported Platforms: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Supported Controllers: Oculus Touch, Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Standing, Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

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Description: A Fast Paced Shooter set in a Roguelike Metaverse crafted by the B99 AI itself. The remnants of humanity are forced to challenge a Labyrinth created by an AI trained on Classic Digital Games. For the B99 it is only a Game and you only the Player. For humanity it is survival. Upgrades and Weapons abound to help you overcome Enemies, Bosses, and Traps looking to end your Run.

Review: Looking for a 1980s tank-style shooter game? Need more psychedelic colour in your life? Maybe this is the game for you. B99 is all that and then some. The idea is to battle dungeon style rooms and clear out all the enemies in a survival wave shooter style. More shoot, move some more. Featuring 75 very colourful enemies, 5 bosses, 13 weapon types, 10 equipment pieces, 15 floors, traps, mimics and even some status effects. This is a retro shooter that wants things to be as crazy as possible, even the music makes it seem more fast-paced than it really is.

At the moment you only get to enter B99 mode or go with simulator mode (with easy medium and hard settings). The simulator mode is my personal favourite, you just need to survive for as long as you can. But if you like to do more dungeon-style room crawling B99 mode is the one for you. No tutorial or instructions, just go in, shoot, move, shoot some more.

B99 is a loud music driven, fast paced tank style shooter that certainly keeps the mind active and happy for a while. But the psychedelic 1980s style graphics don’t make for a great game here. It looks just too confusing at times and for some reason, with just a few enemies on the screen it started to slow down and skip frames! This doesn’t happen on much more graphically heavy games so why was it doing it here? If this game was just a few quid (dollars) then it might have been worth getting, but at its current price it is best avoided. But I will say that the addition of a simple multiplayer mode might well change that.