System: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Price at Time Of Review: £11 ($14)
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
Genre: Sports
Input: Gamepad, Oculus Touch
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: When Golf meets the limitless possibilities of Virtual Reality, the green is only inches away! Practice your swing and develop your techniques to improve your handicap. Step onto one of the 36 realistic courses, with additional courses planned for the near future. VR Golf Online can be played as a singleplayer (practice) mode, against AI opponents, or against your friends for a game of local and/or online multiplayer. Compete and become the golf pro you’ve always wanted to be!
Review: So here we are at last. The very first serious VR golf game. I’ve have been waiting for far too long to be honest and I already have high hopes for this game before I had even started it. You start off in a posh gold club hall with all the options and choices laid out in front of you including a board will all your controls on it which is rather handy as well as your own handicap rating. The gameplay options you get to choose from are single play and match play. The later consisting of a leaderboard and no apparent multiplayer options (these might well come later). So for now, we only have the single player to choose from. Getting into that mode you have two courses to choose from (36-holes in total) one is called Taurus and the other Gemini, both of them are grass / woodland courses with their own layout. Then from there you can split them up into groups of holes or play the whole lot.
From the moment you start (after going through all the menu options) you start to feel as if this game might well be worth the money. Graphics wise it is not the most amazing looking golf game in the world, but they are more than adequate for making the game look and indeed feel believable. Then you line up your shot like any normal golf game, but when you take your shot (provided you have the move camera option on) you go up with the ball with a stomach dropping effect. While this might make some people feel ill it gave me some appreciation of what it is like to be a golf ball.
OK, so this is no PGA Tour and without the multiplayer option you are left with a rather short game of golf on your own (or played with a CPU). But stuff it, I still love it. The hit camera flying up is a nice touch and everything feels and plays just as well as any other golf game. Sure, it is a little expensive for what you get, but if they sort out the multiplay online and add a few more courses this could easily be one of the best golf games ever. But for now, it’s a gentle walk ruined, but still worth a trip out.
