Hover Junkers is a VR + MOTION CONTROL ONLY multiplayer flying fort game designed from the ground up exclusively for VR. Enter the virtual world of the drought stricken future where junk hunters scavenge for scrap left behind. Players choose their ship based on their RoomScale play area and enter into multiplayer combat areas to claim scrap/loot and defend against enemy player junkers. Using scrap as actual defenses against incoming fire, players can physically dodge, hide, and shoot from behind the cover of their ships defenses.
The world tends towards the dull and brown, shrouded in fog to help keep the frame rate high, and the floating barges don’t result in the kinds of running battles that you might expect, but rather see people crash into each other and then take pot shots. It’s an interesting attempt, but not the multiplayer shooter I was hoping for.
One of the best VR games so far, with a very clever gimmick for getting first person shooters to work with current technology.
Hover Junkers proves Roomscale VR systems like the Vive aren't gimmicks but the future of gaming. Hover Junkers just made every non-VR shooter obsolete.
Even after the free-for-all matches start to feel redundant, the punchy, full-body action in Hover Junkers remains hilarious fun.
