A Fear Of Heights, And Other Things Reviews

I highly recommend with *one serious caveat*. The base-jumping experience gives you no warning before very fast, no acceleration movement hits. For me, this was deeply nauseating. Took about 2 hours for the blech in my stomach to wear off after that. This coming from someone that has had no problems with artificial locomotion in the past (except for rotating in a swivel chair while running away from things in Dreadhalls on the GearVR, to put it in perspective).

My wife absolutely screamed at the base jump one and my daughter loved the rope swing mode. Nice showcase for some perspective based VR!

[h1]A Fear Of Heights, And Other Things[/h1] or [h1]A Terrifyingly Fun Cheap VR Variety Pack[/h1] The grappling scene was what ultimately sold me on getting this for a dollar. It was the cheapest grappling game I could find and one of only two that utilized both Vive controllers. It was hard to stand up for the grappling experience, but sitting down makes it more bareable. Overall, the grappling hooks scene isn't much fun, and you can get stuck easily and have to restart it, but if you simply can't afford Windlands or refuse to buy from that dev based on ill-placed morality, this isn't a terrible experience for just 99 cents. There are many other experiences/scenes in this variety pack, but only a couple of them are maybe worth checking out. Most of the experiences are not interactive and only act as visual scenery (and not even good scenery), but one such scene actually has a nice bit of realism to it: the "Dark" scene. Basically, it's a cave with a closed door and two paths. You have a lighter that goes out very easily, and there are a lot of things happening in the unlit areas of the scene. The lighter is interactive and based on the lighter from VRTK's room demo scene but looks more realistic. The sharks scene only works if you stand up, and it's not a very convincing scene, but it's still kind of cool for a reason I can't explain. There's a scene straight out of an Indiana Jones movie (or possibly inspired by the Star Wars trash compactor scene) where you pick up a gold statue from a pedestal and the walls start to move toward you. That scene, like many of the other scenes, is trying to evoke an involuntary emotional response, though I just found it cool. The only thing that really gets me is motion sickness, and that's the grappling hooks scene or the base jumping scene. The base jumping scene could easily be done better and provide you with more interaction, but instead, the dev opted to have you simply pull a trigger and go along for the ride as a disembodied camera flying off a building. There's no character to watch, no hand model, and the movement is so fast and so sudden that you may find it very uncomfortable. If your VR collection isn't too great yet, I say get this to pad said collection, especially if you like to show off VR to friends. There's a nifty demo mode on the main menu that makes it easy to start a demo reel of the scenes for showing off VR.

It was cheap to buy and looked cheap on screen. That said I did like the premise. The rope simulation I screamed "spiderman" a lot while scaling builngs which was very satifying And in the glider one I screamed like a girl. The moutain top and closing wall ones were also cool So all up a few buys was worth it.

This is fun to introduce people to VR with. I showed my dad the base jumping off a building one and he nearly lost his balance and fell.

The static scenes were kinda meh for me, but oh man, that grappling section. Best Spider-Man game never made, in my opinion. I felt a good amount of vertigo in that; the fun kind. This is just a tech demo, but I really hope someone expands this mechanic into a full game.

Pros: Great for scaring your friends by giving them a push when they're looking down a cliff. Cons: Might have some human waste on the floor because you tried to push them off the cliff. 10/10 would recommend.

I really just bought this for the rope swinging. I thought it would make me feel like Spiderman. It does. The other stuff is cool , too, but 98% of my playtime has been me swinging around the small cluster of buildings and bridges. Definite recommendation!

[h1]Played On: [b]HTC Vive[/b][/h1] A Fear Of Heights, And Other Things is a game that, at its base, is the most primitive example of modern day virtual reality. And that's what makes it so good. It's made up of nine reflex and response-invoking short scenes that are great for testing your own boundaries and involuntary reactions; it also serves as a great demo to others who are having their first VR experience. Most of the scenes involve heights, whether it's peering over a rickety old bridge into a deep canyon, or standing on a gondela while gazing over the city. For those of us without a height phobia, these experiences are little more than awe-inspiring fun. There's also a scene where you're in the middle of the ocean with sharks swimming around you, which is probably the most boring of the bunch as the sharks don't actually do anything and the water isn't that convincing. Two of the more interactive, stagnant scenes involve a dimly lit room. One is for a fear of the dark, wherein you have nothing but a small lighter to use so that you can see; if you wait long enough, some creepy crawlies will scatter around your feet. Be careful, though, as any sharp movement will blow out the flame. The other one is for claustrophobics, where you're of course in a very tiny room that only gets smaller... as the walls close in on you. The two remaining scenes are interactive, one being a base jump that flies you through the air, and the other a Spider-Man styled simulation where you rope-swing around a city. The responses that are invoked are surprising, even if you go in to the game thinking you won't have any. I'm not afraid of the dark, or small spaces, and both Darkness and Claustrophobia caused me to feel incredibly uncomfortable. Likewise, the Base Jump and Rope Swing mini-games will force you to feel like you need to move, and you may even need to sit in order to finish them. The graphics aren't exceptionally compelling by any means, and the audio is just so-so. However, keep in mind that A Fear Of Heights, And Other Things released just six months after the Vive and Rift hit the shelves. It's still a fun experience for newcomers to VR, and well worth a purchase during a 50% off sale. [h1]Rating: [b]4.0/5.0[/b] - Excellent, highly worth playing.[/h1] The VR Network [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33182845-The-VR-Network/]Curator[/url] | [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/thevrnetwork]Group[/url] Click for More

This is exactly what it says, a collection of the sort of scenes that you might want to demo in VR to new users. Graphics are good and vary from photorealistic (cliff) to the kind of Richie's Plank effect when you're standing over the city. The cliff ledge in this is as effective as the tower scene in Oculus Dreamdeck with birds flying above and the wind blowing. I'd pay $1 for that alone but there's a bunch of quite polished scenes in this that are perfect for VR demos. I can think of a couple of scenarios i'd like to see added but for the price and the convenience of being able to demo multiple scenes from the same program this is great value.