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Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War

I normally don't like shooting galleries, but this one pulled me in with it's bullet time, and story. I didn't play the first one, and I didn't feel lost at all.

It has the most bosses of any VR game I've played, which I didn't expect. I assumed it was going to be a bad game - but now I'm hoping there's a sequel.

Game is OK, but feels a litte bit old fashion (move only by teleportation, no physics, no interaction with the environnement possible, graphics OK but not great, repetitive gameplay ...).

Game level loading are extremely long, hardly playable on non SSD hard drives.

However, this game still works with the Oculus Quest VR headset, but the Oculus Touch  mapping are strange (also, in game controllers render are limited to the Vive controllers).


Sound defaults to the wrong output device and there's no way to change it. Sat through 15 minutes of silent cutscenes before being allowed to quit to the main menu where the options couldn't fix the problem.

And the developer website is useless, update your drivers? That doesn't help.

Edit: The Windows website finally showed me how to force the audio to my hedset, so here's the real review:

BORING on rails shooter where the weakest enemy in the game takes 4 full seconds of machinegun fire to kill it, and then you have to reload. The voice acting is horrible, the accents were so bad they would be present for once sentance then disapear for the next, the sound effects are WAY to loud despite being turned down to almost nothing, and it was just unejoyable in every way.