System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £0.79
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Shooter
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
VR Shop Score 1/100: 80
Description: The parasitarias cerebrum cancer, or the Dance Dance Party Hat as it was originally marketed, was the No.1 selling party accessory of 2082 on our world. Attach the hat to one of those white wine spritzer drinking wallflowers and watch as they dance like nobody’s watching (and occasionally lose control of their bladder). In 2092, the scientific community had discovered thousands of medical uses for the party hats, or brain crabs as they were now referred. These ranged from a remedy for ADHD for small children to curing erectile dysfunction in the elderly. No one knew where they originally came from but, wow, they made us feel sexy! Over time the brain crab became our friend, our family, and our go-to guy.
Nobody expected what happened next…in 2096 reports started to emerge that users of the brain crab were unable or unwilling to remove their purple-headed friends. Over the following months, the crabs started to slowly burrow into the host’s skulls and this triggered some sort of transformation in the host’s DNA – mutating them into grotesque monsters, beasts, and croc wearers. Not even the sweet release of death was enough for these cheeky symbiotic crustaceans to let their hosts go; die and they would have you back up within an hour, chatting about the latest fad diet to hit the crabby world – and we are so tired of dieting. Please help us – kill us, kill us allllll!!!
Review: I have to say Dimension Hunter VR is a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Don’t get me wrong here, it is far from perfect, but it is still a pretty good wave shooter with forced forward motion. With a weird comic-book graphical style that looks better on the 2D screen than it does in VR, the game has so much more polish than many others do. All in all, there are probably about 2 or 3 hours of gameplay here which is more than enough to justify the £0.79 asking price. Maybe I am just a sucker for a good shooter, but I still enjoy it.
