Kingdom City Drowning Episode 1 - The Champion Reviews

Everybody that likes movies should try this experience. It gives you a taste of what will be possilble in VR movies in the future. For example, it never felt so real to sneak around a corner together with somebody else and almost look over his shoulder...

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I don't know what the hell this was supposed to be, but it sucked there was no dialague that i remember and no interaction I don't even know what the hell was going on. I came out of the experience with less idea what it was about then when i started. I would not recommend this to anyone I just pissed away 5$ don't make the same mistake

I would really like to recommend this game. It looks very promising from the few minutes I have been able to watch. However, I have had it crash on me 3 times in a row. I restarted my machine, tried to restart Steam, etc. It goes for a minute or so and then crashes with various errors. I will update my review if, or when, I am able to watch the entire movie.

An outstanding and innovative experience that is possibly the worlds first example of a new genre of Virtual Reality cinematography, A narrative experience- no interaction- that is throughly gripping and a preview of what to expect in the next 4-5 years. What is not real-time now- will soon be full realtime interactive. This will set a few imaginations alight as to the possibilities and sheer scope of what future VR worlds can and will be. A must purchase. Look foward to episode Two. And props must be given for cross-platform support for both VIVE and OCULUS

Sorry, it's dark, super grainy, and full of gratuitous violence with no explanation and no story. Violence per se doesn't bother me (I love Arizona Sunshine), but this "game" is total crap. I've requested a refund. I mean, if you just like watching "prisoners" kill guards and each other for no discernible reason and with very little dialogue to explain, and with no interaction (you're just basically watching a 20 minute "movie"), this would be ideal.

Very cool, gives you a taste of what VR movies could be. Please, if you are complaining of poor quality, pause the game, go to the quality options on the far left of the little menu, hit the trigger till it is at the quality desired, and there you have it. Honestly, looking forward to the next episode.

Even if this were free, I would not recommend it. The story is not clear at all and half of it is a camera just very, very slowly creeping down hallways with no action or narrative in sight. It has some interesting camera mechanics, but they bring nothing useful to the experience. The entire thing felt painfully empty. The goal of a VR narrative expierence that this seemed to be trying to create was much better achieved by Quanero, which is a vastly more interestig and engaging experience.

Can't comment on the game as it crashes about a minute in. Tried some work arounds listed in the forum. They don't work for my system. Developer has known about the crash for almost a year, it seems, with no fix. Don't waste your money if you have a GTX 1080 like myself.

First off, I want to support and like VR movies. I see it as a new, growing platform that needs an enthusiastic audience so it can develop as a medium for entertainment. The few good ones I have experienced have been amazing, immersive experiences. For example, Miyubi, Allumette, Old Friend reminded me of the first time watching Avatar in 3D at the movie theatre (experiencing something new and magical). However, this VR episode is a muddled mess. As much as I want to support it, I cannot recommend it. There's just too many things that make it difficult to enjoy. First of all, the story is not well written or structured. There's actually very few spoken lines in the entire 24 minute runtime. Most of the time the camera is too busy moving around at very weird angles and also scales to even notice what's supposed to be happening. There's just very poor direction in this episode. There's a few "violent" scenes, but I have no idea why they happened. The dialogue did not help at all in deciphering what's going on. The scenes are too dependent on the visual surroundings that are supposed to carry the story forward (I suppose is what the director was going for). Secondly, the game world visuals are not pretty to look at. The world look very grimy, with an almost 70s style grainy movie filter. There's very few colors in the world, mostly green and browns. It's a very poor game engine to use, ps3 era type of game engine and the textures are very low. There's nothing visually appealing to look at and enjoy. And the camera just keeps moving around, high, low, around, now everything is big, now everything is small. Lastly, the voice acting is okay. There's just very few lines. I'm sure the actors did their best job, but how can you convey anything with such short dialogue? There's really not much there for the actors to have worked with. The music is also fine. In fact, it's probably the best thing about the episode, but still nothing too memorable either. Overall, I was bored watching this and was waiting for the 24 minutes to be over. And at the end you're just riding on the longest elevator ride with a view of what might as well be a parking lot. And the animations of the guy there (behind you) are just being repeated of him smoking. I won't ask for a refund, but I don't think this episode is worth anything. Rate 3/10 only buy if you want to support VR movies so hopefully we get better content, i.e. you have money to burn