Thirst VR (PC) Review
System PC
Developer RLTY CHK Publisher RLTY CHK Genre First Person Shooter, On Rails Shooter # of Players 1 Release Date August 7th, 2016 |
Pros
Simple, straight to the point gameplay Cons Only one mode that can get boring quickly |
Review
by Thonos
5/4/2019
While VR has many uses, the one thing I was looking forward to was playing first person shooter games. Just to ability to hold a weapon and aim almost like you would with a real firearm seems fun to me. And in practice, I do enjoy it. While Thirst is not the most innovative game for VR that I have played, it does let me have the experience of aiming and shooting things.
Thirst’s story is pretty basic. You are guarding a train filled with water for thousands of people. Since water is very scarce, there are a lot of people trying to attack the train. And that pretty much sums up the story. My problem with this is that if this water is so important, why is there only one guard? Anyway, the story is not important and just gives you a reason to attack everything that comes at you.
You have three main weapons that you can use. The main one is a machine gun that you run your hand over an ammo icon to reload. You get a rocket launcher that fires one shot at a time and reloads on a timer. Finally, you get a pulse gun that fires blue scatter shots that also recharges on a timer. As far as secondary items you get a grenade and a shield to block incoming damage. Defeated enemies sometimes drop health and temporary unlimited ammo for your rocket launcher and pulse guns.
This is an on rails shooter that never stops moving. You have 360 degrees view, although I never had to look behind me. While the gunplay is far from realistic, I had no problems with aiming and hit detection. While most of the enemies are in cars/buggies and helicopters, at one point you do fight a blimp. If there is an end to the game I never got to it, usually the blimp finished me off.
The game’s graphics and sound fall into the same boat, serviceable but nothing great. Everything from the scenery to the weapons has some detail, but nothing that really impressed me. The explosions look slightly better, but nothing great. The audio was alright, but again, nothing that stood out to me.
Thirst is not a deep, complicated game. It is a game with a simple premise and execution. This is a game you put on, shoot a bunch of things, put down and forget about. If you are looking for something flashy you might want to look elsewhere. But this game does fill that pick up and play itch.
by Thonos
5/4/2019
While VR has many uses, the one thing I was looking forward to was playing first person shooter games. Just to ability to hold a weapon and aim almost like you would with a real firearm seems fun to me. And in practice, I do enjoy it. While Thirst is not the most innovative game for VR that I have played, it does let me have the experience of aiming and shooting things.
Thirst’s story is pretty basic. You are guarding a train filled with water for thousands of people. Since water is very scarce, there are a lot of people trying to attack the train. And that pretty much sums up the story. My problem with this is that if this water is so important, why is there only one guard? Anyway, the story is not important and just gives you a reason to attack everything that comes at you.
You have three main weapons that you can use. The main one is a machine gun that you run your hand over an ammo icon to reload. You get a rocket launcher that fires one shot at a time and reloads on a timer. Finally, you get a pulse gun that fires blue scatter shots that also recharges on a timer. As far as secondary items you get a grenade and a shield to block incoming damage. Defeated enemies sometimes drop health and temporary unlimited ammo for your rocket launcher and pulse guns.
This is an on rails shooter that never stops moving. You have 360 degrees view, although I never had to look behind me. While the gunplay is far from realistic, I had no problems with aiming and hit detection. While most of the enemies are in cars/buggies and helicopters, at one point you do fight a blimp. If there is an end to the game I never got to it, usually the blimp finished me off.
The game’s graphics and sound fall into the same boat, serviceable but nothing great. Everything from the scenery to the weapons has some detail, but nothing that really impressed me. The explosions look slightly better, but nothing great. The audio was alright, but again, nothing that stood out to me.
Thirst is not a deep, complicated game. It is a game with a simple premise and execution. This is a game you put on, shoot a bunch of things, put down and forget about. If you are looking for something flashy you might want to look elsewhere. But this game does fill that pick up and play itch.