System: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go
Price at Time Of Review: £2.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Tower Defence
Input: Gamepad, Touchpad, Gear VR Controller
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: You know how you’ll be driving around, minding your own business, then suddenly hit bad traffic with no obvious reason why? The answer is simple: Evil Robots! They love to create traffic jams all over the world. Play as an agent of the Evil Robot Defense Force: place powerful defence towers, activate destructive special abilities and disrupt the robots with hacker drones.
Review: What I love about strategy games in VR is that it just feel right. The god-like overview makes every strategy game feel great because in VR it never feels like a game, it feels like a playset laid out in front of you, for you to play with. You can easily believe and get into the struggle of strategy games like this because there is no need to keep adjusting the camera, all you do it look where you need to see.
With a wide variety of towers to build and cars to shoot at, Evil Robot Traffic Jam is a blast from start to finish (the end wave boss fights are just the best). Overlooking a stretch of road you have to try and stop a traffic jam building up by destroying the cars. While this might sound a little drastic they are being driven by evil robots who are intent on causing trouble.
It all looks great, sounds great and is dead simple to play. I quickly worked out the best places to place my defence towers and I was flying through levels in no time. If you only buy one strategy game on the Gear VR, make sure it’s this one.
