Batman Arkham VR walkthrough part 2
0Batman VR is an amazing experience, but its lacking as a Batman game. It’s short, taking you around 1 hour to finish the story. You can do extra if you scan the levels for riddler puzzles, but it’s campaign is only 1 hour long. Also in the game you feel like a detective, but not like a ninja in a suit. You barely get into combat in the game, and when you do you just throw a batarang from a distance and hear punch noises. That’s the combat.
But even if it’s lacking as a Batman game, as a VR experience it’s amazing, with it’s convincing 3D. The 3D in VR headsets isn’t like cinema 3D. It’s more advanced than that, it’s more immersive, which helps create a unique and convincing experience. You feel like Batman. The Batcave, the Alley, Bruce’s mansion, all look stunning. You can even interact with objects and here is where you can have some fun, and also see how good the 3D is. What you see now on screen isn’t what you experience with a VR headset. What you see on the headset looks more real and immersive, even if what you see are the graphics from Arkham Knight.
The gameplay consists on puzzle solving. You have a utility belt, where you have a scanner, a grappling hook and battarangs. As many as you want. With these you solve puzzles. And because the experience is so immersive the puzzles are great. But me, and other reviewers would have liked some combat too. And the game to have more length.
As for the story, you’re not losing out on anything if you don’t play the game. I’ll summarize the story for your this time to show you what I mean. In the game Batman finds out that Dick was killed and goes to find out why, Robin got captured, and Joker is behind this. And at the end he goes mad. That’s the story. It ends in a cliffhanger, and storywise the story is incomplete and ends abruptly.
So in conclusion, if you already have a VR headset and find the game cheap, I recommend you the game. It’s a nice experience. But if you don’t have a headset, and the game is expensive I recommend you to not make efforts to get it. It’s not worth it. You’re not missing out on anything as a story, and the experience is expensive. It’s a unique experience, true, but a really short one too. It feels more like a tech demo than a full fledged game.