Virtual reality and its various HMDs have the potential to enhance many genres throughout gaming and the real-time strategy genre is one that could easily benefit from the degree of freedom VR affords you. Brass Tactics is the VRTS experience from Hidden Path Entertainment that launches tomorrow and I wanted to share my experience with it thus far.
Let’s address comfort first off. I’m fairly susceptible to motion sickness, but didn’t expect to experience much in this game. Thankfully, I did not. The official Oculus page lists the game’s comfort level as “moderate” and I’m sure some may be disoriented if they move the playing area around quickly, but it’s largely pleasant to play and the frame-rate was consistent.
Brass Tactics features a single-player campaign with eight maps, 20 multiplayer maps, and three different AI personalities in the final version of the game. I’m playing a review copy of it and immediate dove into the first mission after taking a look at the types of units available. The miniature squads have a steampunk style to them and cover the typical units you’d expect across range, flight, melee archetypes and more rare ones like the massive Titan and an artillery unit that can move around or transform into a powerful, stationary weapon.
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