System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift Price at Time Of Review: £3.99 Comfort Rating: Yellow Genre: Interactive Experience Input: Tracked Motion Controllers Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale Multi-Player: No Age Rating: PG
Description: Excavator Simulator VR is a short showcase of what it feels like to operate a giant 90 tonne excavator in either ISO or SAE control patterns. This includes real-time digging, boom/bucket movement, and tank-like movement. Explore levels to climb up hills or dig a mega hole to the ocean. There are no limits even if you prefer not to complete the levels.
Review: ‘Excavator Simulator VR’ is pretty much what its title suggests. It is a JCB digger, or excavator simulation in which you get to perform 3 tasks. You get to drive about, learn how the arms work and then finally dig a small trench to prove your learned skills. While there is no game as such here I still managed to have a little bit of fun driving the digger about and digging holes all over the place. While I didn’t find the text-based tutorial much help at all I still managed to learn most of it simply by messing around. I got this in a sale for just £3.59 and for that I did have some fun given that I have always wanted to drive a digger. But it has to be said there is very little in the way of training material here.
