It seems PlayStation VR is starting to hit its stride. With so many games coming out for this nascent platform, it?s surprising to see that there hasn?t been a massive online battle arena (MOBA) game yet. Sunsoft claims to be the first to develop such a title, with Dark Eclipse. With the player controlling not one, but three characters simultaneously in a real-time strategy game combined with multiple lanes of attack and defense, is it too much for the humble PS Move controller to handle" Time to find out in our review.
Is It Massive Enough"
Dark Eclipse calls itself a MOBA, but it?s really more of a real-time strategy game, with vaguely-defined lanes and a focus on hero characters. It?s only ever a 1-vs-1 affair, as there are no matches any larger than that. So, to call this a MOBA is something of a misnomer. Running between towers and inching towards the enemy?s base tower is the closest Dark Eclipse gets to really feeling like a MOBA. Movement within a virtual reality game can be hit-or-miss. Dark Eclipse is a third-person real-time strategy game played from an isometric viewpoint. The player is tasked with controlling three different heroes, delegating resource collecting, and choosing strategies such as which types of towers to build, and when and where to attack the enemy. With so much going on, you?d be forgiven for thinking that the control scheme is convoluted, especially with the Move controllers. However, Sunsoft managed to devise a way to control Dark...