If you are looking for a pure workout VR game, then this might fit your desires. PowerBeats VR for sure is a sweat-generating app where you punch incoming rocks and dodge virtual barriers.

Unfortunately the presentation of the game is very lackluster. This begins with the AI voice that leads you through menus. There are various visual styles for the stages but they look like some random environments from an asset store. The game just lacks a coherent visual style and theme, it feels put together randomly. There is no campaign, just 24 songs to choose from. Music of course is 100% subjective, but I didn’t like most of the songs all that much. There are several difficulty settings for the songs, but not each song comes with all difficulties. Some can just be played on Expert, others provide a larger range of difficulty settings. Why does not every song provide all settings?

And finally, PowerBeats VR also just lacks the satisfying feeling of hitting something that other games in the genre provide. It’s just not much fun to actually play the game and with so many better alternatives around I really can’t recommend this game.

Reviewed on Apr 24, 2024


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