System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £13.59
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Role-Playing Games (RPG)
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
VR Shop Score 1/100: 20
Description: Are you ready for a Virtual Reality Survival RPG experience on the HTC Vive? In Chapter 1, the early alpha game has you play through the prologue of the chapters to come, setting up the world for a great war. Following chapters will have you command the role of other heroes from different races as they are dragged into the fray. The story begins with you, a half-blooded human descendant of the ancient Draconic Order, exiled to an island for the rest of your days. With some skill, intelligence, and some good luck, you just might turn the world upside down and return to the mainland as a powerful warrior mage.
Discover mysterious tomes, written in different race’s native tongue. These can be transcribed at various portals around the island. Holding the items in your hand when near the portal will cause them to ‘react’, meaning a tome can be transcribed after a few seconds when opened. Learn various spells, and summon legendary Guardians to aide you in Battle. Seek out the epic weapons of fallen Heroes once lost to the Island. You will need Guardians to take down the 4 big bosses you learn of from the notes in the Prison cells beneath the island.
Review: Draconic Order VR is another one of those VR games that had the potential to be big, but since it has been abandoned that potential is long gone. It was going to be the big, open-world adventure, very much like a budget version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR. But even at the lower price of £13.59 this game offers no value for money at all and will forever remain a buggy, unfinished mess. To be honest, the game’s developers had given themselves such a grand goal that it was never, ever going to finished. If you get it for a quid or so do take a look, otherwise I would leave it alone.
