War Remains: Dan Carlin Presents an Immersive Memory (VR) Review
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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 Cons History buffs will get the most out of this No replay value |
Review
By Thonos
1/19/2021
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.
By Thonos
1/19/2021
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.