VR has finally reached the point where developers are figuring out how to use the medium in interesting ways. Thank God! I mean, any clown can make a game featuring ?shooty-shooty, bang-bang,? in first person. I?m looking for the kind of shit that inverts your synapses and has you thinking about an entirely new type of gaming experience. A perfect example of this is the newly released Transpose, which turns all player perceptions on its ear. It?s beginning to feel like VR has leveled up.
Perception Is (Virtual) Reality
If you?re looking for highly detailed environments or a deeply involved narrative, you should probably start hunting elsewhere. Honestly, you should probably just start hunting outside of the VR space in general. Transpose is an in-depth first-person puzzler that will literally have you questioning what is up and what is down. That?s not an exaggeration considering that a handful of stages focus exclusively on dicking around with gravity. And this is just the jumping off point for a title that finds a couple of fantastic new ways to utilize VR, and then iterates on the formula until damn near every possible permutation has been exhausted. If there were such a thing as mental push-ups, this would most likely be the gym you?d be working out in. Expect to have your perception of both time and space tested. No, this isn?t some garbage sci-fi series. It?s a mentally exhausting experience that will make your head spin countless times before it reaches its final co...