Mass-Energy Soldier (Steam VR)

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £15.49
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Mass-Energy Soldier is a VR Sci-Fi combat game based on physics. Create weapons of any shape and defeat your enemies. All characters and objects follow the laws of physics, so does the way damage is calculated. Create a heavy weapon and wave it hard, then you will deal more damage.

Review: ‘Mass-Energy Soldier’ is a low-poly action game in which you essentially make (or draw) your own weapons. You can make them as big or as small as you want and the game is said to run on the basic laws of physics, so the bigger the weapon, the harder it is to wield, but it does more damage. In reality, what you end up with is a “game” (and I use that term in the loosest of sense) that looks like it was made in 24hrs and doesn’t work properly at all.

The animation is one of the worst parts of the game and it looks just as bad as NES levels of animation, then there is a total lack of fun, strategy and content as a whole. It all just feels like an ‘idea’ for a game rather than something that should have been released. But all that is not the worst part about this! I’m not sure which universe this game would ever be worth £15.49, but it definitely isn’t this one. This is not a game I will be recommending anytime soon at any price, even if it was free.