Every other Thursday, staff at TheGamer get together for a game night. Sometimes we play party games like Jackbox or Skribbl. Sometimes we squad up in Splatoon or Fortnite. Sometimes we kick each others’ asses in Tekken or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat, and sometimes we compete in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Team Racing or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Game Formerly Known As FIFA. And sometimes, we just play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PowerWash Simulator.
These are the most chill game nights, where we just talk shit on Discord as we slowly make our way through maps together, each cleaning a large chunk before looping back to scrub out the last nooks and crannies. It’s one of the few game nights where nobody wins, and that’s okay. That’s the spirit of PowerWash Simulator, after all. But after Gamescom, I think we need a shake up.
I played PowerWash Simulator VR at Gamescom, and took to it instantly. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I have a PS VR2 anyway, so that learning curve is gone, but with my headset I’ve spent a lot of time looking for a good VR game everyone can try out. I have friends who play games but have no experience of VR, and friends who don’t play games at all, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:so selling them on VR is a tough task. They’re not going to strap a contraption to their heads to play a roguelike shooter now matter how much I tell them that it gets easier after the 25th run. Mostly we just play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Beat Saber. But PowerWash Simulator is the firs🐠t true challenger Beat Saber has faced.
PowerWash Simulator has a breezy playability to it anyway, bu🌳t actually holding the nozzles in your hand made it even simpler. Aiming and reaching each part of the dirt is far more tactile in VR, and it’s easier to stretch to exactly where you need to aim. Crouching in the game while standing in real life is always a little strange in VR, but it’s a minor issue in PowerWash when you’re not adding 🦋in stealth, combat, or cover like in other games.
The golf course, one 🏅of the largest and most visually interesting levels, was my buffet of grime at Gamescom. Rolling the ball into the hole with jets of water was easier to control and even more tempting in VR, while each crinkle in the course could be examined far closer. It’s a little harder to appreciate scale in VR, even though the regular game is first-person anyway, but that’s the only downgrade I see. Even th🍰en, it’s more of a perspective shift.
I played PowerWash Simulator alone, as most Gamescom previews went, but the team told me that some sites had booked two people in to race each other. Maybe it was the fact that competitive Farm Simulator, with its new Bale Stacking Challenge, had been the talk of Gamescom, bu✱t it got me thinking about the need for PowerWash Simulator as an esport.
The set-up writes itself; while the game is generally all about chill vibes, it has a very clear goal. Have two people play the same level side by side, and the first to achieve that goal of cleaning everything wins. The fact VR places you in the game and gives you more control over your cleaning, and also makes the game more physical and welcoming to 🥀outsiders, only sweetens the deal.
I left PowerWash Simulator VR thinking that if I showed this to my friends, they’d probably be more up for VR than if I forced them to take on a Stormbird in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Call of the Mountain. But it a🐟lso made me want to take on the team at TheGamer, to ruin the most casual game night we have here so I can kick their asses like I do at Tekken.
