Review for Firewall Zero Hour. PlayStation VR game, the video game was released on 28/08/2018
Let's face it, without too many words: Firewall Zero Hour is a good game. While not the seminal product that will forever change the concept of the first person shooter, it certainly represents a discreetly made work, characterized by brilliant ideas, weighed down by those who are the current limits of a technology, that of PlayStation VR, which does not contribute to unleashing the complete vision of a really good development team.
The guys from First Contact Entertainment have in fact been able to forge a video game that is at times truly engaging, which is configured as a team tactical FPS in which the ultimate goal is to eliminate the opposing team or reach the desired destination. The main mode of the game, Contracts, places the attacking team grappling with the need to hack a terminal that the defending team will have to protect at all costs. During the virtual guerrilla, the beefy gamer will be able to use a fair selection of weapons, which can be taken from an assorted bouquet of war choices to be made in the pre-game, when customizing his hero, and will have to coordinate his actions, synchronizing his synapses with those of his equally badass comrades.
Although death is overbearing around every corner, it is reassuring to know that the resuscitation of their playmates is always possible, if it is done in a sufficiently short period of time not to make them bleed completely. The nine maps proposed make up a good playful selection, helping to stimulate the replayability of the title along with a progressive unlocking system that will fill your armory with new battle jewels, upon reaching certain amounts of experience points.
Equipped with a really clear and effective user interface, Firewall Zero Hour combines the simplicity of a control system basically based on pointing one's firearm in the right direction, spatially traced through the joint use of PlayStation Camera and any peripheral between Aim Controller, PlayStation Move or Dual Shock 4, to a decidedly immersive virtual reality experience. Furthermore, should there be a need the game also offers a short tutorial, incidentally the only piece of play that can be experienced in solitary, which quite clearly lays out in-game objectives and commands.
A dive that, however, definitely clashes with the limitations of a technology that cripples the experience, partially mortifying all the efforts made by the development team. First of all, this is not a game for those suffering from motion sickness: in the course of a game, in fact, the most sensitive will often experience feelings of discomfort strictly related to this problem.
As if that were not enough, thea not very high resolution and the shallow depth of the image in general makes the game scene unpleasant to the eye in more than one circumstance, whether you test the game on PlayStation 4 "smooth", or experience Firewall Zero Hour through the upgraded circuits supplied with PlayStation 4 Pro. Overall, however, the polygonal models sported by this binary creature are at good levels.
Finally, Firewall Zero Hour is the game of endless uploads. Sometimes, and this is no euphemism, the time intervals between one playful session and the other last longer than the piece of gameplay itself. What it could limit the appeal of the game, moreover, it could be the community that the production will be able to magnetize around itself. Being a multiplayer title only, the latter is an aspect not to be underestimated.
Firewall Zero Hour is a courageous project and carried out with extreme dedication. The results achieved, however, despite being discreet, fail to make the game the product that every PlayStation VR owner expected, a little for the endemic limits of technology, a little for the doubts about the size of the community that the title will succeed. to involve.
► Firewall Zero Hour is an Action-FPS game developed by First Contact Entertainment and published by 343 Industries Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation VR, the video game was released on 28/08/2018
