This is a VR game. It was made for PSVR1 on PlayStation 4. I believe I played a demo when I had my PSVR1 headset and thought it was cool, but not cool enough to get the whole game. Now I’ve played it as a regular game on TV with my PlayStation 5. I would have played it on PSVR2 if they had been bothered to upgrade it.
The game is a starship simulator kind of game, where you drive around these small fighter ships and shoot down other ships in skirmishes. The story takes place in a conflict between the Empire and the New Republic and you get to play both sides, by flying both X-wings and Tie Fighters. If you are a Star Wars fan you will recognize a lot of different space ships and be able to fly them. You get to fly dogfighting missions, escort missions, bombing runs and there’s even a mission that reenacts the trench run from Star Wars Episode 4.
You recognize it’s a Star Wars game from its bad writing. Here you will feel right at home. The story is an excuse to support the gameplay, the characters are shallow and the dialogue is extremely cringeworthy at times. If everyone could just shut up, that would be great. I stopped engaging with the story about half way through and just skipped to the missions.
The gameplay is fun, but flying the ships doesn’t feel as good as Elite Dangerous and there is really no difference between flying an X-wing from a Tie Fighter. Not as the difference between flying a Cobra MKIII to a Viper in Elite Dangerous.
In true Star Wars fashion it is more arcade like, and not trying to be realistic. You take on star destroyers in your little tie fighter and you win. They explode in incredible fashion, even if there is no oxygen in space, it sounds amazing even if space doesn’t carry sound, and they start sinking like broken ships at sea, even if there is no gravity. I can’t really complain about this as it is true to the Star Wars universe. It is what it is.
What bothers me is that the story is completely useless. I created a character at the start of the game that I never saw since (because the game is first-person). There’s a lot of repetition in the missions and it’s mostly about blowing stuff up. Some missions are very janky and hard to complete because the devteam has tried to be creative.
It would have been cool if you could land on planets, if you would dock with space stations, if you could do supply runs for the New Republic. What a missed opportunity that you’re not able to fly the most famous ship of them all, the Millennium Falcon. All in all this is just a VR gimmick game, and I didn’t even get to play it in VR.
I rate this game as OKAY.
Replay 