Evasion

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Evasion is a sci-fi shooter with a big story campaign and lots of surprises.
In your dominant hand you have your main weapon (for me it’s my right hand, but you choose which hand you prefer). On your secondary hand you have your tether gun which includes a small shield.
The tether gun is like a high tech tractor beam with many uses. When enemies are near death the tether can finish them off and pull in powerups for you. If you play co-op the tether can heal your friends and revive your friends as well.
Store up enough powerups and you can unleash a powerful surge attack.
Before the game begins you choose between four different classes, each of which have unique weapons and abilities.
When I started the campaign I was instantly struck by the overall quality of the gameplay. It feels like a AAA console action game. The campaign stayed interesting with the story driven objectives constantly changing and presenting new challenges.
For example: in one of the early levels you need to destroy some towers, but the only way to deactivate the towers’ shields was by standing on a specific pressure plate. And doing so made you a sitting duck for all the robots to pummel you. So it was a constant battle between taking cover for myself or lowering the towers’ shields.
Top it all off with good voice acting, well timed humor, and great physics with destructible environments.
Evasion has some of the best production quality I’ve ever seen in a VR game. It has raised the bar for action games moving forward. This game is awesome. I highly recommend it.

I'm recommending this but I have a vive pro with a wireless and have a slight issue. This error is not confirmed but the only way to launch this on my setup is having the vive wireless on, steamvr off, and launching the game from the library vr or regular launcher. It then autoactivated my steamVR and was able to play in VR.
THE QUALITY IS THERE FOLKS! DIVE IN. It has 3 ways of locomotion, teleporting, etc. Graphics can be configured to your liking., it is top quality.

Excellent performance, medium lenght storyline (~4hs) excellent voice acting, audio and fun gameplay.
This game feels like it has great production value all around, the coop is very easy to host and join games (no mid level joining though)
I played this game a couple of times with my son in coop and its been a blast, the mechanics are simple, but they mix them up a bit to keep things interesting... As the enemies are robots, there is no blood and although violent, id say its family friendly.
BUT the game does feel a bit on the "simple" side, and does get a bit repetitive, in my opinion because you are forced to use the same weapon the whole level. (you choose before starting) The weapons are fun but would have loved the ability to mix it up mid level. and they are all similar, so there is no variation there.
There are a bunch of enemy types and bosses that then turn into midlevel bosses, the setpieces are cool when they happen.
Some VR veterans will wont like the simpleness, but i recommend it because of it.
It is the perfect game so my wife and kid played can play together and dont ask my help.
And they both had a blast, sure i would like more complexity overall, but i also liked the simplicity, enemies, bad, destroy them all.

Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
Note: I received this game for free as part of the Steam Curator Connect program, but as you guys know, that doesn't stop me from being as objective as possible. I review the game as though I had paid for it and judge accordingly.
This is one of the best wave shooters / bullet hell type games in VR that brings the challenge (in the later levels). I would rank it in my top 5, along stuff like Serious Sam: the Last Hope, Blasters of the Universe, Time Carnage VR, Brookhaven Experiment or Space Pirate Trainer. However, this game is very different from all the above.
The reason is because (at least the campaign) plays out like a normal shooter such as Halo (with no ADS). In fact, this game level designs / worlds looks like it was inspired by the alien worlds in Halo. You have free locomotion and smooth turning options. You have big environments to traverse. Enemies come from all sides, but are generally in front of you. The reason I call it a wave shooter / bullet hell is because all the action takes place in the wave shooter paradigm (with audio dialogues usually before/after a fight). You can physically duck behind cover, but I find just moving around (dodging) & using your specials to get powerups is usually sufficient.
There are epic boss fights. Just when you think you have figured out a boss, two of them come in the next level. Then a whole pack and their friends, along with trash enemies (not trash as in garbage, but like the trash before the boss fight). There are 4 different hero classes to play and although the core gameplay stays the same, each hero has a different style. The bad thing about this system is there there are no gun upgrades or different guns to try ... only the 4 heroes available with their different type of guns / specials. You can play online coop with up to 4 people. I was unable to find anybody online during my playthroughs.
This game is the same price as Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope, but I think it's too expensive. There are 9 levels and I would estimate it would take 3-4 hours to finish the game depending on skill level (I'm on level 6 in just under 2 hours). It just doesn't have the replayability and variety in Serious Sam for extended gameplay. Especially if you're going coop and want 4 of your friends to each shell out $40.
Rate 7/10. Fun game, just priced a little too high so I took off a point on my rating system. $24.99 would have been a better original price given the content. On the other hand, it's solid all around.

This game was such a fun experience - I loved the gameplay, the combat, and the overall feel from start to finish! The music though - omg dev team come on WHO SAID YOU COULD MAKE THE MUSIC GO THIS HARD!? <3 I actually turned the music up like 20% higher than the rest of the volume 'cause once that fight music kicks in the gameplay really takes off and shines IMO.
There are a few things I would have loved to see like, an ability to sprint, a dash to the left / right / back to help dodge attacks, maybe even a moment of invulnerability during this dash just to help level the playing field.
Few wants aside - I really enjoyed this game, I thought it looked visually fantastic, handled exceptionally (Quest 2 linked to PC played via Steam), and was just a blast.
The game was a tad short, I dialed in about 3 hours, but there is a bunch of replayability especially if you go in with friends - enjoy!
Thanks Archiact for such a VR gem.

Let me start it like this:
I got the game on sale for like $5 (100% worth it on sale by any means)
I have the Meta Quest 2 and I was/am using the wireless mode. My Pc is also low end especially by vr standars (it says I am missing requirements). This is a great game.
It feels as if I was dropped in the middle of a borderlands map mixed with destiny 2 vibes. The controllers are not that bad at all. I have only played the first two missions so far as the medic and I am using the locomotion option with snap rotation. It really is great. I am still getting used to Vr in the first place and I recommend this game.

Great game, especially if you have a friend to play with.
Like Space Pirate trainer, but with free locomotion and proper campaign.
Pretty short though, just completed campaign in coop on highest difficulty in 3 hours.
If it had like 2 more campaigns in different settings/with new enemies, and 4 player coop (instead of 2) it would be a perfect arcadish VR shooter.