Farpoint
Farpoint is a riveting VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet. On a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, a sudden rupture nearby sends you and their station crashing onto an unknown alien world. Separated from your colleagues, you must use holographic logs scattered throughout the landscape to reunite with the scientists and escape the planet. Explore and discover the secrets of the planet, blasting your way through hordes of indigenous and alien life as you keep moving to survive.
Features:
- Experience a full-length single player campaign as you traverse an unnerving alien world, searching for survivors and a way home.
- Master various weapons – from charged plasma rifles to a railgun – in the fight through packs of hostile alien life.
- Explore and fight together with a friend in 2 player co-op.
- It was meant to be a routine mission. Escort two scientists to The Pilgrim, a space station studying some anomaly at the edge of the universe. You remember seeing it now. A blinding flash. Alarms. Darkness. And then the crash.
- Marooned on a hostile alien world, armed with the standard issue from the escape pod, you set off towards where The Pilgrim came down. Your only hope of getting home is to locate any survivors from the station while keeping yourself alive with precision accuracy.
- Features: Free-roaming first-person shooter in virtual reality. | Master an arsenal of weapons. | Team up with a friend in online co-op.| Feel the distinct kick of every weapon and improve your accuracy with the PlayStation VR aim controller compatibility. | Farpoint is optimised for the PlayStation VR aim controller, but is fully playable with a DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controller.
Farpoint Review
Like any good VR game, Farpoint makes concessions for the limitations of virtual reality. For example, in story missions enemies only ever come at you from the front, which lets you play the whole game without having to turn around much. By traditional shooter standards it’s boring design, but in Farpoint it helps stave off the motion sickness some people experience in VR and avoids issues with moving outside the bounds of where the PlayStation Camera can detect you or your controller (which can be a DualShock or the gun-shaped Aim). And unlike something like The London Heist or Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, Farpoint doesn’t feel like a simplistic shooting gallery because you can move around its environments freely. There’s also a wide variety of foes that behave intelligently in combat, and big levels that encourage you to pop from cover to cover as your enemies gain ground and try to flank you.
The precision rifle and shotgun in particular feel like a match made in heaven, perfectly complementing one another as you snipe distant jetpack-wearing aliens and pull the shotgun out in panic when leaping spiders pop out of the ground in front of you.
At around five hours to complete, Farpoint’s story campaign doesn’t overstay its welcome. As you fight to rescue a pair of scientists stranded on an alien world the story takes some predictable turns, mostly conveyed through awkward fixed-perspective cutscenes.
The co-op missions are unique and challenging, with multiple difficulty levels and successive waves of enemies that will keep you on your toes even with a partner. There are hectic moments when one player dies, and the other has to scramble to either get the revive or finish the encounter solo, creating some intense fight-or-flight sensations.
Farpoint is more than a proof of concept or another tech demo for virtual reality. Despite its predictable and unsatisfying story and hard-to-ignore bugs, it’s a full-fledged sci-fi shooter that feels fantastic to play with Sony’s high-quality PSVR Aim Controller.
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