6.5
Fun
Whilst Shooty Skies Overdrive presents a fun use of VR in a shooter, it doesn't use audio in the way it should, and as such it's a missed opportunity.
6.5
Fun
8.5
Buoyant
Phantom: Covert Ops promises Metal Gear-style gameplay in a kayak, and it delivers, with good pacing, rewarding gameplay and decent options for replayability.
8
Delightful
Trover Saves the Universe is an adult humor game from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. It's full of cartoonish gore, potty talk, and a handful of mind-f@#!s.
5.5
Split
Premium Bowling is what the industry refers to as a minimum viable product. It works, and it provides what bowling purists demand, but not much else.
7.5
Birdie!
Pro Putt by Topgolf is a relaxing, fun, 3-course mini-golf simulator with a range of addictive mini-games and multiplayer functionality.
8.5
Micro Mayhem
Mini Motor Racing X has enough race modes and difficulties to satisfy most racers, including a career mode that never gets boring.
8
Pumping!
AudioShield does a lot of things right, and the most prominent feature, although it has some issues, is the automapping of your own music.
9.5
Effecting
Released at a perfect time, with many of us struggling with the confines and uncertainly of lockdown due to COVID-19, Tetris Effect offers up a transportive, accessible and all-consuming slice of puzzling.
2
CRAP
Endless runner games are usually free-to-play, fun-free cash grabs. But B-Team is in VR and costs money.
8.5
Thrilling
From the off, it's clear that Lies Beneath has a very polished presentation. Conveyed in a distinctive cel-shaded, comic-strip fashion, it uses the tropes and framing of a graphic novel to tell its narrative and justify its graphical style.
7.5
Buoyant
Freediver: Triton Down attempts something more than the usual 'watching a shark swim past the cage' experiences, offering an exciting narrative married to unique swimming locomotion.
7.5
Ice Cream
There are two worlds in Pixel Ripped 1995. One is the 'real' world of 1995, represented in cute 3D animated fashion, like an early Pixar production, and the other is the world of the game inside the game, Pixel Ripped.
