Espire 1: VR Operative is an ambitious new virtual reality game and IP with its sights firmly set on the single-player ‘stealth’ genre, currently available through Steam's Alpha Release Channel in its prototype phase. We pitch this as "Goldeneye 007"meets "Metal Gear Solid" in an immersive VR world.
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Was itching for a VR answer to Metal Gear Solid and this seemed to be the best on the market right now (in terms of PCVR). While it definitely tries it’s best to emulate the MGS feeling (even the sliding door sound effect is the same as in MGS1) this sadly felt too barebones for me to want to continue past the first couple of missions.
The AI isn’t very smart and you can’t really do a lot beyond sneaking or shooting (although the voice-activated shakedown function is pretty neat) and after the first couple of hours I kinda got the point. A decent enough stealth experience if you can get it cheap enough.
With VR games starting to pick up steam again, I feel like Konami are missing a trick by not developing an actual MGS VR Missions VR game. Although given the events of MGS2 that may not be such a good idea…
The AI isn’t very smart and you can’t really do a lot beyond sneaking or shooting (although the voice-activated shakedown function is pretty neat) and after the first couple of hours I kinda got the point. A decent enough stealth experience if you can get it cheap enough.
With VR games starting to pick up steam again, I feel like Konami are missing a trick by not developing an actual MGS VR Missions VR game. Although given the events of MGS2 that may not be such a good idea…
Very jank, and besides the mechanics introduced right at the start, bland.