System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Music and Rhythm
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Beats Fever is a VR rhythm game where players enjoy stylish music and catch incoming notes. With licensed tracks from renowned music agencies, easy and intuitive gameplay, high quality graphics and immersive environments, this title is for players of all age groups.
Review: Have you noticed there are quite a few music based games in VR? It’s because music is something easy to draw your mind into, so when you put a virtual environment and music together, you are easily immersed in the moment of the music and that makes it a much more enjoyable game or experience. So with that in mind, here comes Beats Fever! It’s a music rhythm game where you have to drum musical notes in time with the music. Set in 3 rather beautiful looking city stages stages
The idea is simple, touch the notes that come towards you with the paddles you have (your motion controllers) and some will also require you to hold the paddle onto the beat rather than just touch it. Beats come at you high, low and fast and slow. At the moment you get to play with the 20 built-in tracks, but more is to come apparently (how many times have we heard that!).
Beats Fever is so much fun it’s ridiculous. This is much more a drum rhythm game than a dance move game, but you will soon discover that you will often need to perform both to do well on the later levels. Sure the lack of tracks and the inability to play your own tracks is annoying, but what it lacks in content it more than makes up for it in gameplay fun. The batons are responsive, even the harder levels are easily achievable if you are willing to sweat your eyes out and the choice of tracks is better than you might think. This is what VR is all about, fun, fun and then a hefty dollop of fun on the top for good measure.
