With all due respects to the only other user review in here, their comparison is both unfortunate and inadequate: this isn't like Blood &With all due respects to the only other user review in here, their comparison is both unfortunate and inadequate: this isn't like Blood & Truth at all, nor does it intend to be - this was designed and built, without any shadow of doubt, as a cross between Virtua Cop and Time Crisis for VR. And I'm SO glad it exists. Blood & Truth was relatively great and I enjoyed it quite a bit, but it got too carried away too often with its storytelling aspects, to its own detriment; the flow and pace was quite uneven, and the intense action was great but weirdly paced. I liked the cinematic experience it offered... the first time around. Subsequent playthroughs, however, became boring very fast. I just wanted to get through the long-winded conversations and irrelevant setpieces and cut straight into the action, but that rarely happened. Almost half of the time I spent on B&T was wasted playing through mildly interactive cutscenes badly disguised as playable sections that seemed to go on forever without one single finger squeezing on one single trigger as minutes (and minutes and minutes) went by. Well, Crisis Vrigade is the complete opposite of that, like it or not. And I happen to love it.
I'm an older dude, 47 years old. I was there when Operation Wolf took arcade rooms all around the world by storm, and was mesmerized by it. It made me fall in love with the genre, and some of my fondest memories of youth are related with big fake guns aimed at CRT or retroprojection screens while my friends cheered around me, as I was and still am quite good at it. Unsurprisingly enough, my three all-time favorite light gun games were, and still are, Operation Wolf, Virtua Cop and Time Crisis. So, back to Crisis Vrigade and considering that, as I said, it's a perfect mix between the latter two, I can't have anything but praise for it because, to top things off, it excels at what it's set to achieve. The low-poly, flat-shaded look is nearly identical to that of Virtua Cop, and even the set pieces are a rehash of classic stages from the original: the bank with its offices, the construction site... everything looks and feels like a true, official remake or spin-off built for VR, even if it actually isn't. Throw Time Crisis' cover-based gameplay mechanics into the mix and the results are pure bliss for old light gun arcade fans like me: intense, uninterrupted fast-paced action from the first second to the last, without any fluff or unnecessary filling.
About the other reviewer's nitpicking regarding controls and aiming, I'm sorry but I'm left to assume their VR setup must be incorrectly calibrated because I'm on an original, basic PS4 and the controls are rock solid for me, regardless of whether it's the aim controller or the moves. In fact, it's the most stable and precise VR shooter in my library, and I own and have played through a lot of them. I can line headshots in this game without any kind of visual aid like I mow down empty cans and bottles in real life, by instinctively feeling where the bullet is going to go to based on the gun's angle as an extension of the arm marred with the depth of field perception. That's outstanding, and there's few VR games involving shooting where I can achieve that level of finesse - maybe Farpoint and Walkind Dead: Onslaught, as unjustly vilified as it is, being the sole exceptions -. In short, shooting in this game feels EXTREMELY good, and considering the fact that you'll spend 95% of your time, well, shooting things, I can hardly think of a better praise than that.
TL,DR: this is top-of-the-class classic light gun arcade action at its finest. The gameplay may be closer to that of Time Crisis - or, to be exact, to that of Police 24/7, a forgotten hidden gem from Konami that used full-body tracking for cover in-game instead of a pedal -, but the aesthetics are 200% Virtua Cop, and the development team completely and absolutely nailed it. It might not be a game for everybody, but it surely is a game you'll love to death if you happen to be part of its target demographic. I absolutely am.… Expand
