Crisis on the Planet of the Apes Review

April 15, 2022 Post a Comment

Blockbuster films and videogame collaborations take never had any easy history, generally because the content is rushed together in the hope of beingness a cash cow for all involved, resulting in some beneath boilerplate (horrendous) titles coming to market. Fifty-fifty with virtual reality (VR) still in its infancy there has already been some good and some not-so-proficient experiences seeing the light of day. The latest comes from FoxNext and Imaginati Studios with Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR, and it's safe to say this is i of the better ones.

With 20^th Century Play a trick on rebooting the Planet of the Apes franchise Crunch on the Planet of the Apes VR sits in between Rise of the Planet of the Apes andDawn of the Planet of the Apes films. So the Simian Flu has wiped out a massive portion of humanity with those left living in lilliputian pockets of the earth. Of form there's a military base somewhere still performing experiments trying to notice a cure by rounding up evolved apes to test on. This is where the Crunch on the Planet of the Apes VR starts, entering the base, with the only goal being to escape its confines.

For the first half of the experience Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR is all well-nigh getting used to beingness an ape and the diverse running, jumping and climbing all of that entails. While the climbing sections are fluid and easy to navigate, with highlighted ledges and pipes to traverse the same tin can't exist said for the other 2. The championship is as linear every bit you can get in a VR experience, there'south no exploration with multiple routes or whatsoever puzzles to solve every bit the walking mechanic is a mixture of point-to-point teleportation and arm swinging – like that found in Dart Vector. A white ape silhouette will appear which yous so have to swing your arms to movement to. While its blueprint is crafted around helping you lot tune into the character its actual operation is far clunkier than it is fluid – particularly in the latter sections existence chased by a helicopter. And if you're not exactly on the right spot the next highlighted location doesn't appear until that extra inch or so is moved.

Thankfully in the action oriented latter sections where y'all get an assail burglarize and shotgun this organization is replaced by a red ape silhouette which can be quickly dashed to. This is corking for jumping from cover to cover, grabbing new ammo magazines and continuing the fire fight. Another corking little characteristic is the ability to grab cover to hibernate – expert for those players with bad knees – so you tin can dip in and out with relative ease.

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Information technology's easy to see the high production values in Crunch on the Planet of the Apes VR. Levels look impressively grim and dilapidated, and the animations on both the humans and apes certainly assist to make information technology a suitably immersive experience. The same goes for the audio, with the final helicopter section of particular notation as it sweeps around overhead.

Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR is by no ways ane of the best VR experiences out at that place, but equally a film tie-in it certainly sets the bar high. Because information technology'due south so closely linked with its pic brethren is the possible reason for the linearity, playing out as an interactive moving-picture show sequence. There also seems to exist no additional extras involved, nothing to find or go along you coming back for more, so once completed – information technology shouldn't take any longer than two hours to finish on normal – that'due south your lot. If you're a fan of the Planet of the Apes franchise then Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR is certainly worth checking out, everyone else may detect it too constrained and short lived.