![]() ![]() Essentially whacking blocks with a stick in your hand, even my mother who plays very little video games was a Beat Saber badass within minutes of starting. There are no buttons to remember, no long combos or menus to master, it’s just something we all have done before in real life. It’s one of the great things with VR, everyone I demoed the game to knew exactly what to do straight away, even with very little video game experience. It’s short, succinct and I was in the game within a few minutes knowing exactly what I was doing. You can start with the tutorial, as I did, it introduces you to the game and how to play it and is standard video game territory these days. You must then cross your arms and slice the blocks with the opposite hand, it becomes natural over time though and just adds another layer to the gameplay. Sometimes the blocks move too to make your life a bit more difficult just as red and blue cube approach they swap positions. It feels great to duck under one of these red hazards and cut a block either side if you in one motion like Kill Bill, it’s glorious. These red areas really change up the gameplay massively, sometimes you have to shift your body left and right to avoid them and even duck under them whilst still slicing through the blocks as required. Along the way, there are a few hazards to watch out for like mines that are placed through the stages and red areas for you to dodge by moving around in the VR space. The haptic feedback on the moves also adds to the overall feeling, they vibrate when the chop or clash together and it really feels like you are slicing through something tangible. While songs are starting up I often tapped them together like a drummer and his drumsticks ‘tapping myself’ into a track, it’s brilliant. The perfect tracking and the feeling of the saber in your hands is a great experience, they crackle and glow while you’re swinging them around and spark when they touch, it’s just how I wanted VR sabers to be in a game, tactile and amazing. These cubes have arrows on them that designate which direction you must chop them and a colour, red or blue, to differentiate which sabre you need to use to chop it. ![]() You are presented with a song, or in this game, a banging dance track, and have to match its beat by slicing and chopping cubes that come towards you to the beat of the song. In each of your hands is a saber, one red and one blue and they look and feel superb. The game sounds exceptional already doesn’t it? I knew I would love this game the minute I read about it.īeat Saber does not have a story at all and definitely doesn’t require one, it’s your standard rhythm game affair, akin to games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, DJ Max and many others of it’s kind. ![]() ![]() If you don’t know already or haven’t heard of the title before, it’s a VR game that equips you with a saber in each hand and has you chopping blocks coming towards you in time to an electronic dance soundtrack. I have kept my eye on the development and publicity for this game for a while, I thought it looked unique and it was generating a lot of buzz on the VR scene. Have you ever wanted to be a mixture of Darth Vader and Tiesto? Do you love lightsabers and rhythm-based music games? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this is the review for you. ![]()
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