Nowhere else in Incursion’s design is monotony a problem, curiously enough. In other words, uncommonly for VR, fights always feel fair. The latitude afforded to you by this control scheme means you scarcely have to struggle with the mechanics or the tech.
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The siege-like waves that are from time to time directed against you can be intense and entertainingly demanding, and moments of frenzied action do show off what for a VR shooter are relatively elegant controls - including the option to navigate environments using either the fashionable teleportation method or the smoother (but perhaps motion-sickness-inducing) free roam. Incursion’s enemies are not especially diverse - you battle the same handful of monster classes from start to finish, ranging from speedy weaklings to lumbering brutes - so instead the volume of them varies widely in what feels like compensation. You battle the same handful of monster classes from start to finish.And frantic the firefights do tend to be. It’s consequently easy to go from staring down the sights of a ranged rifle to pick off distant enemies to quickly pulling out a handgun to deal with any closer targets that happen to surprise you, even in the middle of a frantic firefight. As in Arizona Sunshine, guns are holstered on the hip or on the back and drawn when needed unlike Arizona Sunshine, happily, weapons rematerialize on your person if you drop them, which relieves the strain of carefully storing or hurriedly retrieving them on the fly. An arsenal of such breadth can be pretty unwieldy, and Incursion has devised a coherent, if rather complicated, system for inventory management. If you want that treasure, you need to make a mess.Ī host of more conventional firearms and blades - a pair of pistols, knives, an assault rifle, and a shotgun among them - are available from almost the beginning of the five- to six-hour campaign, each with different strengths depending on the speed and closeness of the combat. It’s no coincidence that one of Incursion’s most coveted weapons is irremovably attached to a certain fiend’s limb. This includes, most unforgettably, the severed limbs of the enemies you butcher - and when you’re low on ammunition, swinging a dismembered arm around like a baseball bat or bludgeoning foes with the head of their fallen comrade can certainly help you out of a bind. When you're low on ammo, swinging a dismembered arm can help you out of a bind.While ostensibly a shooter - and a shooter with a respectable variety of guns at your disposal at any given time - Incursion follows the tradition of Half-Life and Dead Rising by inviting you to see every item around you as a potential melee weapon. This ought to be obvious, but VR games so rarely carry off the illusion without technical faults or glitches that it feels remarkable when one actually does - and all the more so when interaction is the emphasis. One of the fundamental pleasures of VR is the sensation of being in a space and believably interacting with it.
From flashlights to keypad locks to, yes, fire axes stored behind breakable emergency glass, everything feels intensely palpable and real. Incursion never forgoes an opportunity to let you really savor the feeling of the objects you encounter and manipulate in its world. I completed it with a new appreciation for my sense of touch. It encourages you to poke, clutch, twist, and grope your way through its sci-fi environments, and indeed to punch, slice, shove, and shoot your way through its hordes of monstrous enemies. Much of its amusement derives from the freedom to indulge such giddy impulses - to pull the dangling pin of a grenade with one hand and to lob the bomb across the room with another, or to slide the chunky forend of a pump-action shotgun back and forth between squeezing off rounds. Killing Floor: Incursion is a VR shooter that understands a universal truth of human nature: when you read the words “in case of emergency, break glass,” you immediately feel the urge to break that glass.
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