Hell Breaker

[h1] Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers [/h1] No, I don't have the bHaptics haptics suit. I don't think it matters. This game sucks. Is this 2016? Nodal teleportation? check. wave shooter? check. ugly pixel / boxy graphics? check. point and shoot? check! wiggle your motion controller = wand swing in VR? check. You know how there are games that are system sellers. Well, this game is the opposite. This game will make you want to refund your VR setup. I don't know how this is supposed to help the cause for a haptics suit. So you feel some buzzing in your body? Okay. Doesn't help in the immersion when the video/audio is this bad. The good news is that I finished the whole thing in less than 9 minutes when you had a 15 minute counter. There were 3 different environments, but honestly they all looked the same to me. You had three different enemies and a boss fight I believe in 3 different colors. Red for fire, blue for arcane or was it water? and yellow for lightning. Spam the matching color. I get this is free, but there are so many better free VR games out there. I wouldn't say this is one of the worst, but it's definitely solidly in the bottom half of free games…

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Hell Breaker is a free to play VR Dungeon game with bHaptics Tactsuit support. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. I don't have the Tactsuit. You can still enjoy this short game without the Tactsuit. Hack and Shoot your way through a dungeon. Try it, for a quick run through a dungeon.

"Hell Breaker" is an advertisement/demo intended to spur sales in a VR gaming accessory from bHaptics Inc. Imagine spending five hundred bucks on a haptic lifejacket for VR gaming and having, well, this demo to play as a result. Judging by the peak player count in this advert, I'm guessing sales for their goofy lifejacket didn't go down so well... but that's besides the point. For the gamers on Steam, this is all about "Hell Breaker". More advert than game. What do you do in the game? As an advert/demo, there's not much here. You have 15 minutes, far longer than anyone would want to wear a TactSuit Pro (seriously don't laugh, that's what they call it, $500 by the way) for. Your mission: To get zapped by the haptic jacket as you pretend to be a wizard (and you would have to believe to some extent you are some kind of wizard if you spend $500 on haptic life vests for VR gaming). It's just a crappy VR shooter tech demo, at best. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A pr…

Small tiny game to test bHaptics

Игра 'Hell Breaker' - это адреналиновый коктейль из брутального экшена, стильной графики и динамичной музыки. С первых минут она захватывает в ураганный вихрь сражений с демонами самых разнообразных мастей. Управление, хоть и требует привыкания, интуитивно понятно и позволяет вытворять зрелищные комбо. Особенно хочется отметить визуальный стиль – неоновый нуар с элементами киберпанка выглядит невероятно круто. Сюжет, пусть и не отличается особой глубиной, подается в виде лаконичных брифингов и прекрасно задает тон происходящему. Прокачка оружия и способностей дает ощутимый прирост в боевой мощи, мотивируя к повторному прохождению уровней. Боссы представляют собой серьезное испытание, требуя от игрока не только реакции, но и тактического мышления. Единственный минус – некоторая однообразность локаций, но это с лихвой компенсируется интенсивным геймплеем. В целом, 'Hell Breaker' - отличный выбор для тех, кто ищет динамичный и зрелищный экшен, способный увлечь на несколько часов.