Our PlayStation VR-a-palooza continues with the most entertaining game of Oasis Games? entire event: Ace Bananas. On the surface, the game looks like a standard first-person shooter experience. It is only upon closer examination that you realize that it is anything but a run-of-the-mill shooting gallery. Your weapon of choice" The bow and arrow! Look out, Hawkeye! There?s a new sheriff in town — a sheriff that REALLY likes bananas.
While some games are content with having players sit back and defend a single base, Ace Bananas takes the shooter and sprinkles in a little tower defense. In the level I played for my hands-on session, you were in charge of defending bundles of bananas, which were stored at three separate bases. Making matters worse, these bases were vast distances away from each other. Luckily, all it takes is a single button press and momentary aiming mini-game to quickly slingshot around the map. Before we get too far down the gameplay road, it’s important to point out that this introduced yet another method for interfacing with the PlayStation VR. This time around, I had a Move controller in each hand and was at least somewhat encouraged to move around freely. Anyone who has fired a bow will be able to take to the controls rather naturally. For those that are unfamiliar with the concept of archery, here is a step-by-step walkthrough of the process: whichever arm is holding onto the bow remains extended outward, away from the body, firing o...