Movement can be through teleport or direct control, view changes can be adjusted, and there is an option for the left-handed too. On a more positive note, there are various accessibility options available to players with different levels of VR experience. This is a real shame as the gunplay is pretty enjoyable, as it so often is in VR. The guns are effective, but the obligatory scarcity of ammo makes them a last resort to reserve for the largest hordes.
Once you find a machete and a fire axe, you’re golden and can take on hordes of walkers with little risk. Unfortunately some of these weapons are so over-powered that there is little incentive outside of a trophy for using anything else. There are a decent range of eighteen melee and ranged weapons, with some melee options like crowbars and pipe wrenches that are only available when salvaged within a level.
You begin both story and survival modes with basic weaponry – a knife and a pistol at first – but slowly unlock more effective weapons as you find them out in the wild. It’s no surprise that Andrew Lincoln has no part in it – Rick instead being played by a replacement actor. To make matters worse, series fans can’t even just power through the story mode as you have to unlock each chapter through playing the rudimentary survival part. Yes, Daryl is voiced by Norman Reedus, but the whole thing is so generic and predictable that it feel like a waste. In the process he must travel through a series of identikit environments and deliver some truly uninspiring dialogue, only for the story to not even resolve at the end. The whole premise is that Daryl is separated from the rest of the crew and gets caught up in a woman’s search for her daughter. The much-heralded storyline developed with the TV show’s writers is paper-thin and wouldn’t amount to more than a disposable sub-story in a filler episode. While the somewhat procedurally generated supply runs promise unending gameplay, the whole package is just dull and disappointing. It’s therefore particularly damning when I say that The Walking Dead Onslaught is woefully short of content and feels like a repetitive grind through a limited set of assets.
I still find the whole experience of VR gaming to be fresh and exciting and will freely admit that even relatively shallow games can be enjoyable due to the increased immersion.
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