System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £6.99
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Sports
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Fancy Skiing is developed by HashVR Studio built with the Unity Engine. The game’s structure is based on real skiing that players use the handles just as ski poles to get power and lean left or right to control the direction, which brings players a strong immersion. Furthermore, we add a lot of fancy elements, like leaping grand canyons and hunting deer. While
skiing, players try their best to avoid obstacles including dynamic ones to ski as far as they can and speed also plays an import role in your final score. You can sit down to play the game if you feel a bit sick.
Review: Fancy Skiing VR is made for people who love skiing and it certainly puts the fun back into skiing games. With an oddly similar style to Snowboard Kids on the N64, you can throw snowballs (which you can kill deer with) jumping and you have to avoid some pretty impressive traps and natural disasters. In fact, the only thing it was missing was powerups and cute kids!
The idea of the game is pretty simple, just ski for as long as you can while avoiding the traps. Of course, that is easier said than done and you will have to perform some pretty breakneck turns to keep going sometimes. While at first, I didn’t get the hang of the controls because they didn’t work as the menu says they do, but I soon got used to them. It does start a little slow, but once you get up and over the first hill it is fast action all the way.
I put my hand on my heart as I tell you it is a fun game, but it is also of no benefit in VR, this could just as easily have been played on a normal screen. That doesn’t make this a bad game at all, like I said it’s loads of fun, just not exactly made for VR. But if you just fancy a bit of skiing it is definitely worth a download, but I would definitely wait for a sale price as the asking price of £6.99 is just way too much in my opinion.
