Recent reviews by SixerEagle

Honestly the most fun I've had in VR and the main reason I still throw on the headset from time to time. The throwing just feels good, every completed pass is satisfying, and being able to scramble with the joystick + move around irl is awesome. If you enjoy the sport it's a must-play title.

Slick controls, fun gameplay, and a ridiculously low price-tag make this hidden gem a no brainer.

The fever dream you'd have after playing Deus Ex, Hitman, and Rainbow Six on a week-long psychedelic binge.

(All Categories rated on a 5 star scale)

Graphics (★★):
Noticeable Unity assets, poor texture quality, and just a dated feel overall. However compared to most first person shooters (or unity asset reliant) games of this price tier, Invention manages to put together a suprisingly cohesive package. Nothing seems out of place,and the unity assets that are present manage to compliment each other instead of conflicting with the scenery. Animations are poor and jittery with little to no transition between actions.


Sound/Music (★):
You pretty much get what you pay for here. The sound effects range from obnoxiously terrible to passable, while the music amounts to the same lackluster atmospheric track that drones within the background. There are a few times where the music will switch to something more uptempto, but still amounts to generic medicrocity.

Gameplay (★★):
Invention manages to have a competent inventory system, which hosts various items
you'll pick up along the way. Here you can swap between weapons (carrying 2 at a time), put on armor, and assign food/healing items to one of the 4 hotkeys. This is all fine dandy, but the variety of items is severly lacking. The armor you find for example (which is split between a helmet and torso slot) comes in a whopping of 2 different variations for each piece.

Furthermore, all weapons and armor degrade over time, although this feature is annoying, it never became too frustating to cause any real issues with the integral flow of the experience. When it comes to the actual combat, shooting is fairly solid, albeit underpowered with the exception of the shotgun. Melee combat feels extremely underwhelming, despite the fact that a few weapons from this category deal a good chunk of damage.

Invention also has the player managing 3 different stats at once. The first being the health bar, which was never a concern throughout my entire playthrough of the game. Zombies (which are the only enemy in the game, with a few different variations) deal little to no damage, presenting no challenge whatsover. If for some reason you are low on health you can wait for your health to regenerate, or simply use one of the many healing items you'll come across. The second bar is your stamina, which depletes as you run and can be refilled by waiting or using a stamina-refilling item. The third bar is the most important, your hunger. You grow famished extremely quickly, which is always depleting while playing the game and acclerates when sprinting. To counter this food items must be used to prevent total starvation, which results in the players death. This is a forced mechanic and doesn't fit within the game at all, becoming more of a nuisance than anything else.

Invention boils down to killing zombies within similar looking bunker rooms, looting a few items out of containers or dead zombies, hitting the occasional *switch* (aka pressing F on an array of computers) and then making your way to the exit of said level. It's simple stuff, and very easy stuff at that.

Story (★):
The story is presented within pages you'll find scattered throughout your *adventure*. Basically it's a, *"I crash landed on a island! Oh no there are zombies! I need to escape!"*, plot with an ending so insulting bad (and cheap) you can't help but laugh.

Replayability/Length (★):
Invention took only 1 hour to complete, and that includes restarting the game once early on due to a bug preventing further access. I can't really recommend playing the game more than once due to the severe lack of content to even push someone to completion once.

Overall Score/Recommendation* (★):
Invention is a bad game, but Invention is also a ridiculously cheap game. If you want to shoot things mindlessly for an hour with no difficulty then sure purchase Invention for some cheap entertainment. But if you're expecting any sort of depth when it comes to in-game content steer clear.






*Not averaged

TimeShift starts out as your run-of-the-mill shooter, weapons handle nicely..but nothing notable, AI is fairly average, and the visuals were good for the time (but not great). The Time control mechanic works really nicely in this game, and that's when it evolves from run-of-the-mill to something special. It's a hidden gem, overlooked by the big boys of the time (Gears, CoD4, Halo 3 and so on).
-You Can SLOW DOWN AND PAUSE TIME (This alows you to pull off some really neat looking kills, and hell even steal your
opponet's weapon and shoot em' in the face)
-You Can REWIND/REVERSE TIME (Ever had a nade thrown in your face, or the enemy spotting you too quickly and ruining your fairly stealthy approach? No problem just reverse time and handle the situation!
People complain about the Time control mechanic being too short or too gimicky..but in reality with the help of a good shot lined up and time slowed you can easily take out 5-6 enemies within your short burst of Time halted/slowed.

Overall, a good game..It's not great, but it is something unique. Definitely worth taking a look at if you haven't already.