After just a bit of practice it feels very natural and quite freeing to fly in Zenith even for short distances just by using the jump button and then gliding for a bit.
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It was clear I wasn’t actually supposed to bother climbing the mountain (as there were some holes in the terrain), but on the other side I could indeed see a brand new zone I had never been to, and I would have flown down to it if the game hadn’t warned me that my player level was far too low to bother.Īpple Releases Vision Pro Development Tools and Headset Emulatorįlying is done by simply holding your arms out to the side like you’re pretending to be a bird (no flapping required, fortunately). A stamina bar limits how far you can climb at any one time, but I found it was easy to scale an entire mountain because the game let me stay in place even when I had to let go to let my stamina recharge. So far, the two other parts of the game that feel most specifically designed with VR in mind are climbing and flying.Įvery surface I’ve found in the game up to this point is climbable, including huge mountains that you’d assume would be out of bounds. The Blade Master class may have you swinging your swords with your arms, but the overall feeling of the melee combat is lacking compared to melee-focused games you may have played in VR elsewhere. While their primary weapons are pretty much point and shoot, Essence Mages have some spells which are actually thrown from the hand (like a baseball), which is a fun way to make casting more ‘realistic’ and dependent on player skill (there seems to be no auto-aim so you need to have decent aim). The direction you gesture doesn’t really relate to the ability you’re using, and generally they just cause something to happen at your feet or give you a large circle to place on the ground where your spell will be cast. Compared to the use of primary weapons, these gestures are less intuitive and not terribly fun.
Image courtesy Ramen VRīoth classes can also make use of various abilities which are cast through a coarse gesture system which involves holding down a button and then swinging your arm up, down, left, or right (with different abilities depending upon which direction you choose). As a Blade Master you swing your swords to slice enemies, and as an Essence Mage you use gauntlet-looking weapons to shoot at enemies from a distance. Each class also has three sub-classes-damage, tank, and support-which come have their own abilities and intended roles.īoth classes wield their main weapons in fairly intuitive ways. There’s two major classes in the game, the Blade Master and Essence Mage the former being a sword-wielder and the latter being a ranged caster. Zenith doesn’t stray far from the MMO formula of yore and attempts to graft VR onto it in ways that are mostly successful, if not particularly well polished. That might not be saying much-were this ambitious game coming from a veteran studio-but considering that this is a brand new IP from a green studio on a relatively small budget, it’s at least worth recognizing that all the gears are in place and seem to be turning just fine. Playing since day one, it’s clear that the game is… well… it’s fully functional. And yet, there’s an undeniable bit of magic that comes with feeling like you’re doing all of this in a persistent world with other players, a sense which is only enhanced by the immersive nature of VR.Īnd to that end, Zenith is making it happen. If it was a single player game this formula would probably bore us to tears. It’s the formula you already know: NPCs with question marks over their head are waiting to give you quests, replete with text boxes and short snippets of benign flavor text enemies stand around aimlessly in open fields waiting for players to come kill them when you return to the quest giver you’ll be rewarded with XP which increases your level and grant you the ability to use new items and gear. In fact, its foundation takes strongly after MMOs of yesteryear like World of Warcraft. GameplayĪt its core, Zenith: The Last City isn’t doing anything new with the MMO genre. We’re publishing some initial impressions here because we want to share what we’ve seen so far, but still have more to explore before we’re ready to give the game a final score. Zenith is a large game with a long progression. Zenith: The Last City is the latest shot at making a great VRMMO a reality, but does it deliver?Įditor’s Note: This is a Review in Progress. The dream of the VRMMO has been captured in countless movies and shows, but to date the genre really hasn’t seen its breakout hit in the VR gaming space.
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