Ballista (Oculus Quest)

VR Shop Score – Gold Award

Price at Time Of Review: £10.99
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Action
Size: 1.89 GB
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Ballista is a completely immersive fantasy world with stunningly real physics and casual action adventure. In a realm under siege by destruction, tyranny, and even the occasional Maleficent dragon, you must progress through five kingdoms to destroy the Bane Stones responsible for corrupting the very brick and mortar of the land’s thirty strongholds, and vanquish the Great Evil for good. In this first-person VR experience, you, the Hero, are aided by a wise Magic Mirror, a wand made of 100% unicorn horn, and a legendary sling. Face daunting foes, glorious victory, and the adoration of an entire realm of minions… which you will use to catapult through the enemy defences with sheer destructive panache. That’s right! The more adorable creatures you rescue and enlist to fight, the more “ammunition” you have to launch at your adversaries. Grab, throw, tickle, poke, and launch over 20 rescued minions, each with special abilities.

Review: If you enjoyed playing Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs then you will probably like Ballista. While not as polished or as good looking as Angry Birds VR it still has a lot going for it especially when it comes to playability. While the pace of the game will be a little slow for some people I found it more relaxing than Angry Birds VR and it also has a lot more depth. The simple thing to say is if you downloaded and enjoyed one, you will probably like the other.