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    I was lucky enough to have been contacted by the developer for Astrokarts for a review on their space racer on the Oculus platform. This is my opinion and I have not scaled it back in anyway.     Astrokarts is a game that is one part F-Zero (Super NES) and one part Tie Fighter Scene from A New Hope (Star Wars). Astrokarts reminds me of F-Zero because it is ultra fast, has a great soundtrack, and has tons of ships to choose from the only difference is it is set up in a space racer where you must avoid all kinds of galactic objects in order to beat the other ships you're racing against. It's part Tie Fighter for obvious reasons you'll see when you play.     Astrokarts features a wide variety of ships. There are several seating arrangements that may work better for each player. This gives the game a lot of depth for the player to enjoy many different ways of racing. Whether you stand, sit, or lay down there's a flying style for you. There...

    Today, we dive into the world of virtual reality! I've had my Oculus Rift for a couple of months now and have been completely blown away. I'll do a complete review on the Oculus soon, but for now we focus on Robo Recall by Epic Games. It was released on March 1, 2017.     Robo Recall is a first person shooter in which the gamer controls a character named Agent 34. You have just been moved up in the RoboReady Corporation to a Recall Specialist. Starting out you have access to pistols but later you can unlock shotguns, revolvers and plasma rifles. Pistol/Revolver holsters are on your hips whereas Shotgun/Plasma Rifle holsters are on your back. To draw a weapon the user simply pulls one out of the holster by grabbing it using the Oculus Rift controllers. To reload, Agent 34 must drop his gun and pull a new one from the holster. Guns regenerate to the holster after a short period of time. To move around the map in Robo Recall, users must use the teleportation featu...