It helps this low-budget indie title shine without having to render great detail. As for the art direction, I love the Borderlands-like hand-drawn textures. During the intense action moments, the movement never made me “VR Sick” or nauseous. Though these moments do not hit quite as hard as they could have when you are seated on your couch instead of moving with them.įrom a visual standpoint, Fracked is rock solid. Hanging from ledges, climbing up a falling train, and riding a helicopter make up some of the more intense VR moments. Fracked has spectacular VR action moments that are diluted by not being able to align your body with the game. This breaks the immersion in a jarring way. It is a shame that smooth gameplay requires the player to sit. Unfortunately for me, Fracked does want the player to be sitting while playing. While I prefer standing while playing VR and physically ducking for cover, this will be a convenient combat system for VR players who prefer to sit.
During combat, you need to grab onto an object and pull yourself in front of it for cover. Once you become acclimated to the basics, Fracked has a unique way of introducing cover into VR. If you dislike the Move Controllers as I do, there is nothing to worry about here. Both the movement and the reloading feel smooth and work well. This is followed up by racking the slide on the top of the gun to load the barrel. Then you physically use your hands to insert a new mag by pushing your hands together. While the right trigger is used to shoot, you use the “Move” button on the dominant hand to eject the mag. Once you get the hang of the movement, Fracked really delivers with stellar shooting mechanics. This is a fantastic replacement for the traditional VR teleportation movement that makes games feel cheap and on-rails.
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What is new here is the free movement from the non-dominant hand. This occurs in conjunction with using face buttons to turn left and right, just like any other VR game with teleportation movement. As you hold down the button, where you point your hand is where you move. Which can be changed to your left or right hand in the options menu. To move in Fracked, you hold down the center “Move” button on the controller in your non-dominant hand. Therefore, I entered by time with Fracked highly skeptical yet Fracked found an interesting way to make it work.
The lack of an analog stick is usually a deal breaker for me. For the most part, I hate the PSVR Move Controllers and will take the AIM or DualShock any day over the outdated Move Controllers. These ultra-linear shooters had a nice mix of narrative and action that Fracked walks well.įracked takes that late 90’s FPS aesthetic and brings it into VR in a fun way. Games where cover meant ducking behind random boxes and trees, before the days of automatic cover systems.
Fracked calls to mind the glory days of games like Goldeneye, Turok, and XIII.
One thing I love about Fracked is the constant reminders of classic FPS games from the not-so-distant past. Release Date: Publisher: nDreams LTD / Devloper: nDreams Platform: PSVR / Price: $29.99 Now, we have Fracked, a PSVR exclusive free-roaming first-person shooter, that could be the first hint of where we are headed when it comes to PSVR. With last month’s Sniper Elite VR, we saw what the old dog was still capable of. Although the small group of games from this year has delivered some of its better titles. The last few months of this year for our believed PSVR have been trying for fans of the platform.
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