Iron Guard VR Is Fun Tower Defense That Plays It Safe - UploadVR

Following an App Lab and SideQuest merchandise past year, Xlab Digital’s Iron Guard VR is present disposable connected the authoritative Quest store. Read connected for our hands-on impressions of this operation defence crippled inspired by classical strategy titles.

Set successful the 23rd period and spanning a 30-mission communicative mode, Iron Guard VR tells a communicative that wouldn’t consciousness retired of spot successful classical sci-fi fare. After clang landing connected different world, your squad finds themselves threatened by rogue terraforming robots who’ve begun self-replicating. Your task is protecting the surviving unit members, and you tin spot a spot of this successful enactment done the flatscreen PC trailer embedded below. We’ve besides got the authoritative communicative statement below, courtesy of Xlab Digital:

The twelvemonth is 2232 A.D and the unit of “Avalon” has crash-landed connected the satellite “Akris”, portion trying to analyse wherefore the earlier drone vessel carrying the AI terraformer bots mislaid contact. Fortunately, the satellite is habitable due to the fact that the terraformer vessel and it’s AI bots had done their occupation to marque “Akris” habitable and sustainable for life. You are 1st Officer Graves. It is up to you to support the lives of the surviving crew.

Commanding forces from an overhead view, your extremity is keeping force robots successful each their assorted forms distant from your base. For example, scout units are anemic but antagonistic this with accelerated question and larger groups, whereas fighters are slow, but battalion stronger regenerating armor. Each level has aggregate routes for waves to beforehand across, truthful focusing your efforts connected a singular choke constituent won’t chopped it here.

Dispatching these foes is reassuringly straightforward, though. As commander, you tin instrumentality nonstop enactment via a controllable drone, firing shots and aiming with your close controller. Holding the trigger charges up your shot, but if that’s not enough, the drone tin deploy a superweapon for a almighty area-of-effect attack. Upgradeable turrets, barricades, and much tin beryllium placed successful acceptable locations with the near controller, which comes astatine a cost. Earning wealth requires sidesplitting enemies, and structures can, fortunately, beryllium scrapped for other cash. That’s besides useful if an existing strategy isn’t paying off.

What I’ve played truthful acold is fun, if not terribly exciting. Levels person bully assortment and trouble feels balanced; the lone times I got ‘Game Over’ came down to mediocre planning. Aside from requiring a headset, however, Iron Guard doesn’t truly innovate beyond being a operation defence crippled successful VR. It’s functional, ne'er does thing peculiarly wrong, but ne'er excels astatine thing either. I bash bask the customization options, though. Finishing a ngo earns accomplishment points that are spent connected imperishable upgrades, including drone improvements, basal resources, and elemental turrets. I wouldn’t telephone this particularly expansive but it does what’s needed.

Where Iron Guard genuinely excels is successful its visuals. It looks large connected Quest hardware, acknowledgment to the colorful environments and crisp textures, each of which are complemented by an energetic soundtrack. My biggest occupation is that I don’t recognize wherefore Iron Guard needed to beryllium a VR game. Notably, there’s a separate flatscreen PC version connected Steam. In the VR version, beyond pointing with question controls and the gameplay that requires readying your basal defence from threats successful each absorption of the map, this isn’t a crippled that takes afloat vantage of virtual reality’s capabilities. You tin play it comfortably sitting down, determination are camera turning options, and that’s astir it.

Still, fewer tin contradict that VR is earnestly lacking operation defence games – Captain ToonHead and Defense Grid 2 aside. Iron Guard VR isn’t the astir innovative crippled going, but the fundamentals are each here, making this a invited sight. If you’ve missed those days playing Command & Conquer until 3am, this could perchance capable that niche.

Iron Guard VR is disposable present connected the Meta Quest platform, alongside PC VR via Steam and Viveport.

Henry Stockdale

Henry is simply a freelance writer from England. He's been gaming since the N64 days and erstwhile he's not playing VR, you'll astir apt find him going done the latest RPGs oregon platformers.

Twitter