VR Shop Score – Bronze Award
System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £5.75
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Racing
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Imagine having a rocket booster strapped to your hands and a hot pair of roller skates on your feed. There is a mountain road in front of you and all you can think about is racing downhills with rocket power. The premise might be simple but the fun is guaranteed.
Review: On the whole ‘Rocket Skates VR’ is a pretty simple game. While mostly it is a racing game with a rocket in one hand using it to move forward and turn, then there are two other game modes in which you will be shooing things with a gun in the otherwise empty hand or you can even use a baseball bat, but to be honest, I just preferred the racing part. While obviously very nauseating I did also find it oddly fun and could easily see this becoming a good VR party game in which you challenge others to beat your score or time, but there is no multiplayer mode built it at the moment. For me, it all got a little too repetitive far too quickly making the £7.19 price tag seems way too high. I paid just £5.75 for this in a sale and I would say I still only just got value for money, so do try and hold off until it drops even more.
