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War Remains:  Dan Carlin Presents an Immersive Memory (VR) Review

Developer  Flight School Studio
Publisher  MWM Interactive
Genre  Historical Simulation
Release Date  May 21st, 2020
Play Method Seated

Website  warremains.com
Pros
Good, immersive atmosphere
Great narration
Good way to showcase VR outside of gaming
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Cons​
History buffs will get the most out of this
No replay value
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Review
By Thonos
1/19/2021
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I believe VR has more purposes than just gaming.  One of those purposes is education.  VR can take and show you places that you may otherwise never get to experience.  As a history major in college, that is what I loved about War Remains.  It puts you into the view of a soldier during World War 1 and tries to recreate the experience and horror of that war.  On some levels it succeeds at that.

This is not a game or even an interactive movie.  This is a game that you load up, sit back, listen and observe.  The game is narrated by Dan Carlin who I personally have never heard of but runs a history podcast.  This is a really short presentation with the whole thing only taking fifteen minutes to do.  Once you run through it once, there is very little reason to come back to it again.

I found this presentation to be very well done.  Obviously they used computer graphics for everything but they did a really good job showing what being in the trenches would have been like.  The sounds are outstanding.  There is a part where you are in a room and all you hear is shells exploding around you and I could only imagine the dread and terror some of these soldiers had to deal with hearing that on a daily basis.  Dan Carlin did a great job narrating this and makes me want to look into some of his podcasting work.

This is an VR experience that I hope leads to more like it.  I would have liked the ability to interact with objects if for nothing else to learn more about them.  I liked the fifteen minute timeframe but would have liked at least two more segments to make it feel more fleshed out.  In the end, if you are a history buff I would check this out.  If you're not, I would still say check this out if you want to experience something that involves VR but is a presentation and not a game.

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