Jetpack Stadium (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £4.79
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Sports
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG

Description: Jetpack Stadium is a hilarious VR sports game that will have you flying around a virtual stadium. Use your head to hit a massive soccer ball into your opponent’s goal using two hand-mounted rockets. Duke it out against other players in a soccer-like competition!

Review: ‘Jetpack Stadium’ has one big problem. Its not the graphics that are a little sparse, as they are also colourful and fun looking. It is not the amount of content because even at full price £4.79 this COULD be worth many times that amount. And it most certainly isn’t the gameplay. The rockets feel responsive and while slow starting you can get the giant football moving at quite a speed because this game is essential Jetpack Football and I have an absolute blast playing it.

The problem is I played this game on my own with no AI, no other players and no-one showed up at all. There is no community of players waiting to play this and that is a shame. Without any single player options nor online players this game is dead before it got started and that is a big shame because this is overall a great game! While I marked it down for now there is MASSIVE potential here that I hope shows its face in future updates. Maybe a small single-player league or some tournaments, anything to counteract the lack of online players that makes this game feel like an empty shell waiting for something great to grow inside of it.