Apex Construct

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
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  1. GamingTrend
    Mar 5, 2018
    70
    Apex Construct provides some excellent exploration and exposition in a compelling and beautifully bizarre world. While there is a fully-baked experience here, the engaging story and compelling gameplay is marred by PSVR’s limited control scheme. It represents a step forward for the platform, and for storytelling, but a bit of polishing or patching would bring the controls to heel.
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Mar 4, 2018
    70
    Apex Construct could have been a very good VR game. Unfortunately some technical and design issues make it not so memorable.
  3. SpazioGames
    Feb 25, 2018
    70
    Apex Construct is sadly a missed opportunity: an intriguing plot is shadowed by far too many technical problems.
  5. Hobby Consolas
    Feb 23, 2018
    70
    Apex Construct is a first person adventure which makes great use of bow and arrow mechanics, and feels truly immersive in VR, but we found some control problems due to the unusual rotation system, based in a combination of pressing buttons and movement control.
  6. Impulsegamer
    Mar 8, 2018
    68
    Apex Construct is heavily flawed, with a fun and fairly precise shooting mechanic unfortunately not enough to make up for the dismal movement controls and derivative narrative.
  7. Everyeye.it
    Feb 23, 2018
    68
    After a curious and intriguing beginning on all fronts, from the gameplay to the narrative, the experience of Apex Construct becomes canonical, not very innovative and monotonous.
  8. Eurogamer Italy
    May 1, 2018
    60
    A missed opportunity. Apex Construct is a first person adventure with an inspired design and some pretty good ideas, shadowed by some technical and design problems.

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6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 30
  3. Negative: 10 out of 30
  1. JonnyMenthol
    Feb 21, 2018
    8
    One of the best VR games to date, Sprint vector and this is the best combo for VR gaming at the moment. Great narrative, voice acting andOne of the best VR games to date, Sprint vector and this is the best combo for VR gaming at the moment. Great narrative, voice acting and puzzle mechanics as well as small details like using commands on computers which ads to an immersive feel. Free locomotion works great in the same way skyrim does.The combat is pretty simple with just a variants of the bow but can become quite tough, certainly no coded hand holding. The aims work great with little to no tracking issues. And the graphics, oh man are they beautiful even on a standard PS4, very impressed indeed. This is a fully fleshed out game on par with a AAA full price, yet we get it at one third the price. The only con I have so far is the screen blacks out if you clip into things , it can be a bit annoying.… Full Review »
  2. TantFuriosa
    Feb 25, 2018
    10
    Apex Construct is one of the rare games on PSVR that feels like a real game and not a demo or a gimmick. The story and storytelling is goodApex Construct is one of the rare games on PSVR that feels like a real game and not a demo or a gimmick. The story and storytelling is good with real nice voice acting. The environments are beautiful, and if you're lucky enough to know Swedish you'll have a couple of extra laughs over things found written here and there, as well as a nice feeling of being home in this warped post apocalypse like version of Stockholm. The controls works nicely, and I was glad to find you can change settings to drawing your bow with left hand. Shooting the bow, dodging and blocking attacks with a shield feels pretty cool. I'm super prone to motion sickness in VR but have had no problems in Apex Construct because of the teleport mode of transportation. There are elevator trips that make me queasy, but they're short so I just close my eyes for a couple of seconds.

    A lot of input in the game is typed on large virtual keyboards, and that's a bit of a pain since you write the same thing over and over. Very quickly I wondered why there couldn't just have been an "open" button to press instead of having to type it repeatedly. Also the terminals where you type this have a small font, and whenever I leaned closer to read it the game auto adjusted its position so the terminal popped away from me and I had to bend over double to squint at it at a distance. All the information is however stored and readable in your home base, and there the font is large and easy to read. I could not find any subtitles for the game which is kind of a bummer, maybe there will be in a later patch.

    The game feels intuitive, immersive and engaging. Is it the best game ever made? No, it's not. But considering what's available on PSVR right now it is without a doubt among the best PSVR games.    … Full Review »
  3. SteveFragz
    Feb 22, 2018
    10
    Love this game. Great world, fun bow and arrow mechanic. And the sound and music is awesome! Finally a real game for PSVR.
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