System: Valve Index & HTC Vive
Price at Time Of Review: £6.99
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Sports
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: 15+
VR Shop Score 1/100: 80
Description: Paddle up with online multiplayer, robots, complete challenges or train your table tennis skills. This is the ultimate ping pong experience for VR. Indulge in the most natural table tennis physics in VR. Customize your paddle with different types of rubber or go hardbat for more control! Compete against your friends or players globally online, interact with voice chat so that you can talk smack. Our optimized netcode allows you to play across continents with high ping! Play against AI of varying skill sets – from casual to “don’t even bother hard”. Get better by playing them in practice sessions.
Review: Paddle Up is a pretty good ping-pong game that does at least have some nice multiplayer options. But it is the customizable features that make this one stand out. From the paddle to the room you are playing in, you can change it all and for me, I felt it made the game that little bit more immersive than usual. While it is far from perfect if you do like your ping-pong sims you should like this one.
Sadly the £6.99 price tag will be a little too high for most people as these days you can get far better ping-pong games for half that price (and some are even free!) but if you spot this in a sale you might want to give it a go. It’s not the best ping-pong simulator out there, but well worth some playtime.
