Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  Very nice photo-realism experience. It takes about 30 mins to go through the whole experience. Not sure it should have cost $24.00, but I guess it is a good way to introduce people to VR if you have friends over.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  Very disappointed. It gives about an hours game play tops and when I mean game play, I use the term loosely. I went up one ladder, walked across a narrow ledge, used some hand grips and voila. I was at the top. game over. I'm sorry but I need more than an hours entertainment for £20. I was expecting so much more of this game. very disappointed.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  I was pretty pumped about this one after reading a bunch of articles online about how amazing it was. It is definitely the best "Experience" VR game I've played, and they did an outstanding job polishing it. I had zero glitchy issues and everything was smooth as butter throughout, and the views are gorgeous from start to finish. The only aspect of this where I felt a little bit let down was in the lack of immersion. I didn't feel as high up as I thought I would. I didn't get the sensation that my life was at risk and I was really scaling a massive mountain. It was more of a "yeah I guess thats kind of cool looking" feeling. Not what I was hoping for. I wanted to feel terrified by my surroundings, but I didn't, at all. It's also very short, I was done with it in about 10-15 minutes, and short of showing it to others it is going to be one time experience for me. It's worth buying, but reduce your expectations a bit first.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  Unfortunately this isn't the experience I was hoping for. Each area you get to 'walk' around is only about the size of your play space (2.3x2.3m in my case) and that's it. The teleport ability isn't put to use which is a shame because it seems like there are large areas you should be able to explore. There are five areas in total. So expect around 20-30 minutes of time in the game and that's with the flying movies you have to sit through and the annoying tutorial section. It does a good job of showing what is possible with VR but at this price, it isn't something worth while for a one time use at home. Definately more for show floors and selling the headsets in shops. Seems like a missed opportunity.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  It looks nice, but it should be free as Destinations, because all you have is about 5 Destinations maps with some interactivity. All landscapes are dull (3d real panoram would be much more better) and sense of presence is quite poor.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  Very disappointing - mainly because i had high hopes and also it was $25.00. If it was free or a couple of bucks fair enough, but at that price, too little conten andt no real gameplay of any note. A tech demo at best and even then i have many other demos that i would use to show off the vive before Everest VR.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  the bulk of the game is just standing and watching a bunch of everest video cutscenes. Very little gameplay/interaction involved. I was looking forward to this game and it wasn't what I expected at all.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  I recommend it when you can buy it for $3.00 maybe, the most immersed I felt was when I crawled into the tent at a base camp. Didn't really get that much of a feeling of height. They used some nice mechanics for climbing a ladder, attaching a carabiner to a rope, pulling yourself along. I don't think I used my ice pick once though. I mean near the end maybe dig in the ice pick with one hand and climb a rope with another... a little excitement?? It's basically just some nice quality videos strung together with very limited interactions as others have said. I have a GTX 970 and graphics were good, no stutters. You can change the quality inside the game as well if you need to. There's just not enough here to really recommend it. I would think price would drop rather quickly... Just my 2 cents... Matt
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  Good News! You can"Complete" this 6 times and still be eligible for a refund. Massively over hyped and over charged.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 3, 2016

  TL/DR Version: One of the most hyped experiances for VR. One of the biggest letdowns in actual practice. The Long Story not cut short: (Warning, it's probably gonna talk lots of philosophy not just a simple game scrub down.) I wanted this to be a showcase to the world as to why VR should be a relevant platform for the future of gaming, and virtual explortation and experiances in general. I wanted to love this experiance. What we get instead, is a 30-45 minute chopped up highlight real, with out any of the real immersion anyone who has spent any more than an hour in VR is really looking for. No one doubts that it looks good, but as we enter into an age where -this- sort of thing is going to become the standard, it's the gameplay / interaction / storyline / immersion that I believe are going to make all the difference and in all of those critical components Everest VR as an experiance fails. They could just as easily have taken you on a virtual tour of the entire climb where you simply had to sit tight and ride the roller coaster. But this begs for more. So much more. Climbing Everest is not about getting to look at pretty vistas. It's about human's putting themselves up against the most challenging of circumstances mother nature can conjur up. The Game Creator of DayZ Dean "Rocket" Hall, had an interview about a year ago talking about his idea to create a mountain climbing video game, based on some of his experiances on Everest. Here is to hoping that, at least where this game succeeds he and the team at Boheimia might find the prospect and possibility of making that dream come to reality within their grasp, and before anyone says that I am shamelessly plugging for him. Yes, I played DayZ. Yes, I also think that game in the end became a dismal failure because of it's inability to figure out the real core of it's game play mechanics. Maybe Solfar should reach out to Rocket, and Beoheimia in the future for joint projects where they can collaborate in order to create longer / more dynamic / more story driven experiences to resolve the glaring holes we now see staring us in the face with Everest VR. As it stands right now however, when my wife can turn to look at me after climbing to the peak of a place that should make a game player feel as if they've been pushed to their limit and she can go ... "Meh." I fear for the future of VR. As it stands right now, I can't recomend this to anyone other than -perhaps- first time users of VR upon whome the 'wow' of the VR experiance has not already worn off. Not worth the price, and after all the hype I generally just feel let down which is not the sort of review I had planned on giving this when I purchased it this morning.