Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom

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  • Summary: It's 1928, and you've been fleeing the firing squad for over a decade. Turning to infamous crime boss Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) for help, you become embroiled in the hunt for Winston Churchill's Red Box: a briefcase containing the identities of every British agent around the globe.

    As    It's 1928, and you've been fleeing the firing squad for over a decade. Turning to infamous crime boss Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) for help, you become embroiled in the hunt for Winston Churchill's Red Box: a briefcase containing the identities of every British agent around the globe.

    As you're drawn deeper into England's criminal underworld, you find yourself at war once again. Enemy factions are closing in, and they all want the box: for power, for money, and the chance to bring the country to its knees. Keep your wits about you as simmering tensions explode into intense action, defeat the odds and bring back the box... BY ORDER OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS!    … Expand

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. God is a Geek
    Mar 10, 2023
    80
    Limitations of the tech notwithstanding, Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom is a great adventure game filled with iconic characters and absolutely seething with atmosphere. [Meta Quest 2]
  2. Meristation
    Mar 17, 2023
    80
    Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom manages, through the care it gives off and the good work done in the implementation of its mechanics, to be among the best games for virtual reality in standalone systems. An appreciable achievement considering that the limited hardware has made poor graphics the norm for many developers. [Meta Quest tested]
  3. COGconnected
    Mar 10, 2023
    78
    I had bigger hopes for this one. But still Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is a fun VR adventure game that you’ll enjoy. You don’t have to be a fan of the TV series to enjoy the game, but it helps. Either way, there’s a solid narrative to experience, first-person. And the gameplay is fun and varied, even if the world feels like a beautiful animatronic amusement park ride at times. If you’re a bloke who fancies a good wallop and a bust up at the local boozer, give Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom a look.
  4. Metro GameCentral
    Mar 21, 2023
    70
    A short but sweet VR romp that replicates the Peaky Blinders universe perfectly, even as it runs up against some of the intrinsic limitations of VR gaming on the Meta Quest 2. [Tested on Meta Quest 2]
  5. SECTOR.sk
    Apr 11, 2023
    70
    Peaky Blinders is certainly one of the more interesting games created directly for VR, although it suffers from the characteristic ills that accompany this sphere. The shorter length can be justified by a fairly solid dynamic story, where you have the impression that for a moment you have entered a film with the usual footage.
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  1. UploadVR
    Mar 9, 2023
    Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is authentic to its source material and it’s good to see Maze Theory create an original in-universe story that leverages new material recorded by members of the original cast, such as Cillian Murphy. However, the many issues and simplistic gameplay mean that The King’s Ransom is probably only of interest to the most hardcore fans of the show. Gorgeous environments, an engaging story and quality voice acting aren’t enough to lift the game beyond what is ultimately an average VR experience.

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