Review: Time Carnage (PlayStation VR)

Choose your weapons wisely as you’ll manically swap out active guns on the fly in a 16-tier Campaign or Custom Arcade Mode complete with perks, challenges and mystery items. Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world, prehistoric jungle, icy wasteland, and a futuristic metropolis.

Pros:

• Really nice graphics with some truly great looking environments.
• 1.61 GB Download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Wave-based shooter gameplay.
• Uses two Move controllers.
• Three difficulties- Easy, Normal and hard.
• Campaign- Battle through 16 levels across multiple locations.
• Arcade mode- Pick from the unlocked levels and any unlocked perks.
• Unlock games and levels as you play the campaign.
• Always has three lanes of attack.
• Shield- Protects you and acts as your health bar in a way.
• Full end of level stats breakdown.
• Reloading- Guns only reload when placed on the plinth.
• Loadout- You have four slots to put the guns on and you can drop and pick up your guns at will.
• Exploding barrels and environmental effects in the game.
• Headshot noise indicator.
• Guns show ammo count clearly.
• Fast loading times.
• The game overall is so fast and fluid and easy to pick up, From the gunplay to the general flow of it all.
• Every gun feels different.
• Dramatic soundtrack.
• Many enemy types.
• Guns make a reload noise to indicate once reloading is finished.
• 25 guns to unlock.
• Perks- Change the game up. Unlocked in the campaign but used in the arcade it can be things like more ammo or fire bullets etc.
• So much fun to play.
• Time rift- Shoot this to trigger slow-mo.
• Has a brief how to play tutorial pop up.
• Rewarding unlocks.
• Can get really addictive.
• So many gun types.
• Many loadout combinations.
• Fast and frantic gameplay.
• Tight solid aiming.
• ADS is actually possible.
• Atmospheric.
• Brief breaks between waves.
• Each level is 10 waves with increasing difficulty.

Cons:

• The easy difficulty has a lot of downtimes.
• Enemies hitting the shield really obstructs your view.
• Harsh level restarts the only option in the game over.
• Have to unlock levels for the arcade.
• No real tutorial.
• Does the one thing really well but also feels limited?
• No online interaction.
• If tracking is out by any measure it really messes up.
• Gun terminals can get in your view.