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SvennoJ on 09 November 2016
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Eagle flight, initial impressions, fun!

It's quite simple, you turn by looking and by tilting you head to turn faster, R2 to speed up, R1 to slow down for tight spaces. The single player mode consists of a bunch of navigational courses, including challenge courses through tunnels (subway, catacombs, etc), catch fish chalenges or defend/defeat enemies by sending out screech pulses with the square button. (No rapid fire, got to aim carefully, 1 hit kills)

For example of how it looks, one of the challenge flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjAWuk5-HM

The field of view is bigger in the headset, you don't see the eagle's beak in the video which is always below you in view. I guess a good reference point to combat motion sickness (hardly felt any effects at all in this game, only when quick turning at full speed while diving down as well). The game narrows the fov in tight turns by darkening out the edges, not sure why. It looks quite severe in the video capture, less intrusive in game but you definitely notice it.

The graphics are decent, lighting is nice, draw distance is great. Don't expect any detailed textures or anything, it is very smooth though. The sun postition doesn't seem to be dynamic, changes by chapter. The second chapter is cloudy with light rain. Most laughable rain effect since ps1. It falls straight down in an area upto 10 ft in front of you, completely oblivious to your movement or anything else. Luckily it's not intrusive, yet for a 2016 game, wth.

The game is easy to pick up and diving down to swoop through narrow alleys feels great. There seems quite a bit to do, 5 areas with story and expert challenges to unlock and collectibles to find. The story is told documentary style with some pre-rendered cut scenes (very odd to get a 360 2D video as a cut scene, or a 30fps 3D one later on). It can hardly be called a story so far though, the life of eagles, eagles eat fish, go catch fish. Maybe something will happen later (I'm only on the second mission of chapter 2 out of 5) but it's no Tokyo Jungle.

Multiplayer is supposedly there to keep the game interesting. There is only 1 mode, 3 vs 3 capture the flag. There was only 1 other person there at 2am. I'm not sure if 1 hit kills are a good fit for this. I beat the other guy 3-0, too easy to take someone out if they don't go zig zag through buildings at full speed. It should be more fun with 6 people.

This is the first VR game that had some residual effects on me. I played for a bit under 2 hours, came up the stairs directly after stretching my neck and while tilting my head I guess my brain was expecting my vision to turn. Odd sensation, kind of like when your getting dizzy and your vision starts shifting. It was gone after a few minutes.

Fun game but it could use the wackiness and survival gameplay of Tokyo Jungle. I would give it a 7/10 based on the first 2 hours.