Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR

The game no longer works. It doesn't detect controllers, so there is no way to interact with it. It appears all support has stopped. Avoid purchase.

Does not support anything other than Vive controllers. The prompt to adjust the table at the beginning of a match was not able to be done with the Index controllers, leading to a very uncomfortable posture during the match. You also can't adjust the paddle angle so that the handle lines up with the angle of the controller's grip making the paddle feel very cumbersome.

The tracking just feels wrong and unnatural. It's fine in the other major table tennis game, so it's a negative for me.

This is great if you want a solo table tennis training challenge vs. challenging a.i. robots, or if you just want to be able to play some table tennis at home without any equipment, and without the need to have others ready to play it with you. Half of the 16 computer a.i. opponents available are really hard to beat at first (it's more reasonable after you get very good at the game). That's why I call this a "table tennis training challenge." However, if you ignore the crazy difficulty in the Gold Clash and Carbon Fury matches, this is a table tennis VR game that looks great, works great, and feels realistic enough to fool you into thinking that you are playing table tennis like a real "pro" player ;). I played the psvr1 version of this for 50 hours, years ago; the psvr2 version for just 5-8 hours; and now the pc vr version with an HTC Vive Cosmos, and it has always been a well-done table tennis experience. I highly recommend it on discount, or even at full price, if you know that a good table tennis challenge in VR is what you are looking for. I definitely enjoyed it, but make no mistake about it: beating all 16 opponents was seriously difficult material. The first 8 are easy, but…

As an Oculus player, I can't adjust the table because the game tells me to use a button on a Vive controller (no button on the Oculus controllers worked, but there are TWO buttons that open the pause menu). Sometimes the bot or I got a point basically before anything happened (throw the ball, hit it, and just before it does the first bounce on the opponent's side, the bot or I got a point). I'm also crap at table tennis. All in all, the game isn't for me.

Mostly I like this game but there's a few bugs that need to be fixed. I see the ball go through the paddles quite often, not just when playing, like you can't serve. There are other "glitches" where the robots win when they shouldn't. Still fun, but it'd be nice to see these glitches fixed.