Unplugged (Oculus Quest)

VR Shop – Silver Award

Price at Time Of Review: £18.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Music and Rhythm
Supported Controllers: Oculus Touch, Hand Tracking
Best Playing Position: Standing, Sitting, Roomscale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Play air guitar and write rock history in VR! Unplugged lets you rock out to some of the biggest and most insanely cool songs from world-famous rock bands, including The Offspring, Weezer & Ozzy Osbourne, using just your hands. Become a rock legend with Steel Panther’s inimitable frontman Satchel as your mentor. Produced by the lead guitarist of Guitar Hero and fully powered by hand-tracking, playing air guitar has never felt this real. Pick up your virtual guitar, select a song, match your fingers to the chords, strum the strings at the right time and engage the crowd! Unlock songs, venues, guitars, and more on your way to rock stardom and compete with the world’s best air guitarists on the leaderboards. Are you ready to ROCK?!

Review: If you have ever seen those air guitar contests and wanted to enter one you will love playing ‘Unplugged’ Played with the motion controllers or just hand motions this game sees you strumming along to 20+ rock hits all of which you unlock with time. When it comes to the hand-tracking it either works as intended and feels great, or doesn’t work at all and sucks, so for now I suggest you stick to the motion controllers. For me there simply wasn’t enough tracks at the start of the game to hold my interest and I wish I could play all of them from the word go. This is one of those games that does get better the more you play it because you will go onto unlocking more songs as well as improving your gameplay, but I get the feeling most people will give up well before that point. A good, but flawed game that is very much hit and miss.