System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £8.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Ever played with a toy plane? Ever wanted to wage epic battles in space? Do you have a VR headset? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Galaxis Wars might be the game for you. Set in the year 2120, humans have discovered a race of hostile extraterrestrials we named the Galaxis. Having already killed several of our astronauts, we have dispatched a fleet of drones to combat this threat before it gets out of hand. Take control of the revolutionary VX-8700 Combat Drone and plunge into simulated warfare with the Galaxis.
Review: Remember back to the days as a child. Did you play with spaceships, holding them in your hand and waging epic battles aginst invisible alien ships in a fight for Earths very survival? No me neither I was too busy play with my Transformers. But that classic style of childhood gameplay is what Galaxis Wars is all about. Ignoring the long storyline about some epic war this game gives you a spaceship to hold (using the Oculus Touch controllers) and gives it some pretty mean guns. Then out of the voids of space will come wave after wave of enemy ships for you to shoot at.
That might sound pretty simple, but these enemy spaceships will come from the full 360 around you and very random so you will never guess where they are going to come from next. While they are slow-moving they also shoot lasers which you have to avoid with your ship attached to your hand. It might start out pretty straight forward but within just a few waves you will be ducking and shooting all around you and will soon discover the ships can easily swamp you if you are not careful. At least there is a load of power-ups and ship upgrades to buy alone the way. Oh, and some new ships to shoot with as well.
Galaxis Wars is one crazy game that is an awful lot of fun to play. It feels great to play and dare I say it looks pretty awesome as well. But underneath those good points, it is also pretty hard and unforgiving. I wasn’t overly impressed with the lack of tutorial neither nor the amount of content given the price. But yet I still loved playing it and provided it come down in price a little bit I would highly recommend getting it.
