System: PSVR 1
Price at Time Of Review: £15.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Sports
Input: DualShock Controller
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: It’s game ball. Sink it and you’ve won. But the shot is tricky. You need a precise angle, exact power… it has to be perfect. And a perfect shot needs a perfect view – the kind you can only get table-side. Step inside the pool hall with Hustle Kings™ VR and play US 8-Ball, Black Ball, Killer, Cut Throat, Snooker and many more cue sports as they were meant to be played. Measure the angles and line up your shots exactly as you would in real life.
Review: Hustle Kings has been around on the PS4 for a while now and would have probably gone unnoticed by most people. But fast forward a few years and we have a ‘new’ VR version of the game. While this new VR version doesn’t add anything other than a new control method, you do still get all the same game modes as the original game. 8-Bell, Snooker, Black Ball, Killer and even some puzzle and trick shot challenges, there is plenty of ball fun to be had here.
Control and lining up each shot is a fairly simple experience. While the guidelines do help show what will happen when you shoot you do still have to line it up yourself using the gamepad or move controllers. This feels more natural than the original game, but in all honesty, it isn’t as polished as I would have liked.
While Hustle Kings VR adds very little over the non-VR Hustle Kings PS4 game it does make it feel more realistic, allowing the player to look at the shot they’re lining up and lean in just like real life. My advice is if you have the original game it is not worth upgrading to this one, but if you don’t and really love your pool, this could well float your goat.
