System: PSVR 1
Price at Time Of Review: £8.99
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Adventure
Input: Move Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Loading Human is the adventure game of the future. Your dying father, an esteemed scientist, has summoned you to his Antarctic base to undergo an intensive interstellar quest: retrieve the Quintessence, an elusive energy source that will help reverse the aging process.
Built exclusively for Virtual Reality, Loading Human takes full advantage of VR hardware and motion controllers to create a completely immersive experience. With unparalleled freedom to move and explore as you wish, Loading Human pushes the boundaries of VR, placing you directly in an emotionally charged story that makes you feel like you are truly living the game. Along your journey through Loading Human, you will make difficult decisions and interact physically with other characters.
Review: When Loading Human: Chapter 1 hit the Steam VR store not a lot of people enjoyed it. In fact, it took a bit of a hammering in the reviews section. But fast forward and here is the same game on the PSVR. Once again, this is not really a game that is best played stood up, you will have a much better experience sat down. OK, so that is out of the way. This is a first-person sci-fi themed adventure game that puts you in the role of an astronaut who needs to recover the Quintessence (powerful energy).
With some pretty decent graphics, good quality voice acting and even a fairly interesting storyline to follow, you can easily get into this game and fly through it all in no time. But there is a lot to do here, sadly I think most people will rush through it meaning a lot of the story will probably go unnoticed in the hundreds of interactive objects scattered around the game. While at times the interactive bits can be a little fiddly, the game is mostly pretty easy to play and besides, there are guides for using the various regular items that might be needed throughout the game.
To be fair to the game makers some of the ‘polish’ that was missing from the Steam VR game has been updated a little here, making it a slightly more enjoyable game. While it is still far from perfect I think the PSVR is the best version by far. Most people will finish this game within a few hours, but what is there has a good storyline and a really good atmosphere. Like I say, it’s not perfect but at least they are trying something new and interesting.
