Every time I play another VR game, I am regularly more and more impressed with the experiences that developers are releasing for the platform. It was only a matter of time until someone decided to translate the tactical shooter genre–games like Rainbow Six–into the immersive experience that is virtual reality. That’s exactly what Firewall Zero Hour is. I donned a headset and grabbed an aim controller to team up retrieve the data that our employer wanted.
In the four vs. four multiplayer, my team rallied around one another, infiltrating the mansion to find an access point and upload data from a laptop. Communication is key here. We moved together as a team, opting to breach through the front door. With no one in sight, we managed to take an access point and locate the laptop. At this point, the opposing team made themselves known, flanking from two sides. We managed to take one down, opening a path to the upstairs where the laptop was located. Finding the laptop we began the download and hunkered down to defend the small bathroom from attack, and attack they did. It was an intense firefight from two directions, and while none of us dropped, we lost due to not getting upstairs to the laptop fast enough. Our download didn’t complete and the failure was inevitable.
On the next round, things immediately got a little more intense. We breached through a side door and set our sights on a nearby access point. Before locating the laptop, a massive firefight b...