The Tower 2 Reviews

I played the original "The Tower" a couple of years ago on a friend's machine - that was a fresh kind of game in a blocky fantasy setting that had me die all the time. Obviously the developers spent quite a lot of time trying to get their gameplay idea to look more modern and cooler with this one. The result is pretty well polished and for me not as hard and unforgiving as the orginal game. What takes a bit of getting used to is that the world looks like you should be able to traverse it like in a FPS, but it is completely on rails: You will fall off the walkways and die if you are not careful, but otherwise you can only move out of the way, duck or shoot at obstacles. That felt kind of weird at first but it really helps with not getting motion-sick, because you are stading still after all and is actually a pretty decent way of getting around - I dislike that "porting" mechanism of other games. The 80ies Blade-Runner-Type city really looks very cool and has quite a lot of pop culture details. I like the movie references in there, but I haven't gotten very far, so I expect there will be some more action later on. I also still have to check out the "parcour" stuff, but I want to do the story mode first. I don't have much VR experience, but the 80ies/90ies movie feel really made this one appeal to me.

Really liked this. It is short though. Controller problems abound: on WMR, knuckes and wands I was continually turning. Had to just hold opposite joystick to the turn throughout. So don't buy this if you have to turn in one place. It is great though. Thoroughly recommended. Though I preferred the tower 1 due to bugs and length.