5 reviews
Robo Recall
Use creative combat tactics and skill shots to earn high scores as you teleport through city streets and rooftops in an awe-inspiring ballet of bullets. Tear apart your robot foes and use them to fend off the enemy onslaught. Unlock, customize and test weapons before taking on challenges that put your newfound skills to the test!
Details
- Released
- February 28, 2017
- Developer
- Epic Games
- Platforms
- PC
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Robo Recall Reviews
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A single, deserted street is often where you start in Robo Recall. Nothing but asphalt, a few cars, some streetlights, and silence. It doesn’t last long. Within moments, countless robots flood the sector, armed with shotguns, pistols, and claws primed to pull you limb from limb. Too bad for them you’ve got two pistols with endless ammo ready to put them all out of commission.
Robo Recall is an excellent demonstration of what a VR shooter can be on Oculus Touch. Thanks to highly physical action and tons of options for smashing a bunch of great-looking robots with both magically replenishing guns and your bare hands, the three available maps feel like plenty.
Robo Recall‘s few flaws just feed into the notion that I want more of it. I’m sure it cost a pretty penny for Epic to develop, and with the install base right now of VR, it may not even fully pay off. But if more deep-pocket developers are able to take risks like this and make more of these pushes, we might see VR hitting the mainstream yet.
Of course, the thing to know there is that, at the time of writing, you get Robo Recall for 'free' if you buy the £100 Oculus Touch controllers, or £600 Rift+Touch bundle. If you've got a Rift but not the Touch, this is a strong, relatively substantial and ultra-polished freebie that'll make the cost of entry far more palatable. Though you'll need to go right ahead and buy SUPERHOT separately afterwards.