It doesn't feel good at all that a full price premium game lets players pay real cash for beefier ships and it's obvious when you go up against a player that's sitting in a ship that can dish out more damage than you. Because of this the microtransactions sting a little extra. Though it's a shame that the process of unlocking these classes feels way too grindy and we felt stuck with the first ship for a bit too long. Within these classes there's different variations of ships with, for instance, better damage output and weaker armour (or vice versa). And then there's the support class, and that one fires a weak but auto-aiming laser, but has the means to heal friendly ships. The heavy class has more powerful projectiles that follow head-tracking, and a mini hyperdrive that makes it easier to quickly make your way to control points on the map or to get out of a sticky situation. The standard vessel comes with vanilla machine guns that fire in a straight line in the direction that the ship is facing, and has homing missiles can lock-on to enemy ships by aiming at them with your head. There's three ship classes to choose from.

Suffering from some motion sickness has meant that we've had to play CCP's space shooter in short sessions, because although going forwards in a straight line is mostly okay, the moment you have to start twisting and turning around, things would get a little choppy. Your eyes have to adjust before the right sense of presence is achieved.Įve: Valkyrie has proven to be a challenging game to review. Unfortunately the resolution you get with the PSVR isn't the sharpest, and in particular it's objects in the distance that appear quite blurry. There's been plenty of games that let you fly a ship in the first-person before, but it's with VR tech that it actually feels like we're really strapped in and ready for combat. The feeling of immersion is its biggest and best selling point. The game has been out on Oculus Rift for some time, but it gets a second birth by way of Sony's PlayStation VR - which is the version we've played for the purposes of this review (we never had the opportunity to play the PC version, so we can't compare).Įve: Valkyrie is, fundamentally, a team based multiplayer game in which you command a space ship, and thanks to the VR headset you can look around inside and feel like you're actually there. Developer CCP Games is familiar with this longing and means to quench our thirst for it with Eve: Valkyrie, which on paper is the perfect game for virtual reality. Surely every sci-fi fan has dreamt of being able to sit in the cockpit of a real space ship, getting to swoosh around in the emptiness of space, pulling off cool manoeuvres and shooting down enemy ships at will.

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