Разработчик: First Contact Entertainment
Описание
Developer FAQ
Greetings fellow Extractors!
We've seen some questions popping up about ROM: Extraction and we here at First Contact Entertainment want to answer them directly. We've selected some of the top questions we've seen but if there's anything else you want to ask us, hit us up on Twitter, Facebook or visit our website to connect with us!
Q: Is this just another wave shooter?
A: ROM: Extraction is a game that is not meant to end. We were so excited with what we created that we wanted to get it into the hands of eager VR players quickly. This meant launching the game with our first mode styled as an homage to the classic arcade shooter as the first step into a larger universe. We're hoping players love and enjoy the action-packed gameplay and arcade style as much as we do! Our ultimate goal though is to constantly expand the game by adding new maps, modes, multi-player, and more - plus, we'll be sharing as much info as possible with players when new maps and modes become available.
Q: Does the game really only have one map?
A: The base game only contains one map; We will be releasing more maps and content over the coming months. We encourage everyone to master the core mechanics, compete on the worldwide leaderboard and establish dominance now because when multi-player comes out, it'll be a totally different experience!
Q: Will there ever be more guns or weapons?
A: The quick and short answer is YES. More guns, more fun.
Q: How much will the content updates cost?
A: ROM: Extraction will have multiple types of content updates but one of the most unique things we're doing is we'll be offering up FREE content too, such as new maps, weapons, and challenge modes. We're also looking into getting our community involved in unique ways so they can help shape the content being released in ROM.
Q: Will you charge me for multi-player?
A: Multi-player will be a FREE content update when it is released.
Q: What new modes/content will be coming to the game?
A: We can't give away all our secrets, Extractor! We can confirm right now though that a new map and multi-player are considered our top priority of content that's coming soon (VERY SOON) to ROM.
About the Game
ROM: Extraction is a fast-paced homage to the classic arcade shooter, featuring an unprecedented style of VR gameplay.Welcome to the year 2076, where you now have the power to slow down time--called "Reflex" power. You'll play as a member of an Orb Extraction Unit, on your way to extract highly volatile energy matter--Orbs--from chambers on the moon. With only a few minutes to defend yourself against the onslaught of alien-built robots protecting the chambers, discover the immense satisfaction of decimating those ‘bots via your "Throw, Slow & Shoot" combat strategy.
As of Feb 28th 2017, ROM has been updated with a new expansion, entitled “Overrun.”
Overrun is a whole new level for players to master, featuring several unique twists on VR gameplay. Your journey to the escape pods continues through the depths of the extraction vessel. The ship has been overrun! Systems are malfunctioning, and you must face highly dangerous enemies on the lower levels of the ship--and escape to the planet surface with your life.
Gameplay
- Use Orbs in combination with your pistol to “Throw, Slow, and Shoot”
- Shoot Orbs in proximity of enemies for the most strategic kills
- Use the environment to your advantage--be on the lookout for destructibles
- Grab the two-handed EOS-15 rifle when you shoot the floating gun token
- Use the EOS-15 to “Launch, Slow, Shoot”--a new twist on the core game mechanic that gives you an orb-launching, auto-firing weapon of destruction
- When “jumpers” are in close proximity, use your pistol or EOS-15 to pop off their heads!
Key Features
- Experience having your full arms in VR
- Engage in an exciting new style of VR gameplay--wield the power to slow down time, and use it as a weapon
- Three modes of play for each level: Normal - Hard - Survive
- Leaderboards: See how you stack up against your local and global Extractors
- Achievements: Earn up to 15 different Steam Achievements
- Cooperative social screen feature: Play in a room with others in real-time--enable your friends to see a top-down view of your gameplay
- Killer soundtrack featuring the music of Delta Heavy and Twin Moons (aka Le Castle Vania)
Continued expansion of the ROM universe through future content updates
- More modes of play
- More levels
- Co-op multiplayer
- Character skins (multiplayer)
- Enemies with new attributes
- Power-ups and orbs with special properties
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel i5-4590
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD RX470
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compliant Sound Card
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC. Standing or Room Scale
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7-4770
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 or AMD R9 390
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compliant Sound Card
Отзывы пользователей
This game is abandonware, it hasn't had an update since April 2017. It still only has two levels, two guns and one enemy type, and you can finish the whole thing in less than 20 minutes. Its also horribly optimized, I spent more time tweaking the graphics settings than I did actually playing.
As others have mentioned, this is a well executed but very short game. The sound and graphics are top notch, mechanics are spot on (even the throwing mechanic, which is not usually quite this good!) and it runs smooth and bug free. The big downside: The whole thing is over after two levels, maybe 10 minutes top. That being said, you can play those two levels over and over – I’ve put in 1.5 hours, and it’s still a lot of fun to boot this up quick, and blast a few robots now and again. I’d recommend picking it up on sale though… it appears to have left early access, and I don’t see many recent updates from the developer, so it’s probably not going to be further developed. Thumbs: UP!
Great game fun and gives a good workout. Great graphics; hope they develope and produce more levels maybe like a full arcade game to save the ship or end in utter choas with ship going down in flames
This was a good game when it came out, but it hasn't been updates for three quarters of a year now and it's starting to fall behind other wave-shooter offerings. It's at -90% sale right now, for 2 dollars it's definitely a fun experience. For 10 or anything more, i don't think I can recommend it.
it's almost like this is an early acess game but not marked as one. there is only two levels and from what I understand one was just recntly added. it's fun and a good concept but nowhere near worth $20 pick it up on sale if you need more vr games or something to show it off too.
UPDATE: I am changing my positive review for sale price of $1.99 to a negative review. This game is abandoned. The shortness of the game makes it really only a demo. It's fun in spurts, but there's not enough there to justify even the sale price of $1.99, let alone the normal price. DO NOT BUY. Should be free to play. Note: dev, if you do update just leave a comment and I will adjust my review accordingly
Original Review below:
So I purchased this on the Halloween sale for $1.99 and I feel this game is exactly worth $1.99. I think that price matches the content (quantity + quality). However, it is not worth $19.99. And I hate to give a positive recommendation when the developer has promised a lot of things, but has not delivered almost a year later.
I wish there was a neutral recommendation on steam. This is what the game deserves and also is reflected on the mixed overall review. However, it's a nice little variation on most wave shooters. Throwing the orb to make maximum impact on enemies is a unique changeup to most wave shooters.
I don't expect much for $1.99. This game delivered that. I hate lying devs, I might change my recommendation to negative if they don't deliver at least on some of their promises (more maps, more guns, multiplayer, etc.). It's been almost a year. I'll revisit this in Jan 2018/ February 2018.
Rating 5/10 Only buy on sale of $1.99 or less. Don't expect dev to update as it seems they are not going to.
This isn't a game, it's a demo. I'm sure the dev team could add more, but it looks like they have given up.
3.0 out of 10
Visually stunning, great sound and great gunplay, but short, very short. When I mean short you can complete the 2 levels combined in less than 15 minutes. Yes that's the entire game, 15 minutes. The levels are the first sections of the first chapter, the game is following some kind of story. That's not described but you can tell there's meant to be a plot.
The amount of content in this game, regardless of the polished quality is no more than a demo. This game is incomplete and should not be purchased until the developer makes this into a complete game. Go ahead, pay £14.99 for a demo, it's your money. I feel cheated and so will you when you reflect on how little there is. You can argue there's replay value in those 2 short levels, sure, but that will wear thin quickly.
My advice, add to your wishlist and keep an eye out for new content. If it's on sale then it's your shout whether to take a gamble. Just remember this game was released over 6 months ago. Does that give you confidence, 6 months development time post-launch for a 15 minute game?
Update: Its mid May, and they haven't issue any new content update, and I have decided to give it a thumb down. I'll revise it if and when they expand the game to an acceptable level, but currently its just a highly polished overpriced tech demo (or early access). If you want to spend your money, there are other VR titles around that deserves the money. Go buy Raw Data instead.
ROM: Extraction is, as of this writing (26 Mar), is lacking content, but more content will be coming soon according to the developer. It is a turrent-shooter title, whereby you stood in a fixed position and shoot at the robot enemies.
At the moment, only the first chapter is available, which is split into 2 segments. In both segments, you fight against enemies in some sort of a facility. These enemies keep coming from various direction, and after you are done killing, you moved to the next rea automatically, done by an automatic sequent where the platform you stood on, goes down deeper. Each of the segment takes about 7-10 minutes to clear.
One point that set this title apart is the orb gameplay element and the slow-down bullet-time element. The various types of orbs can inflict various effects, such as healing yourself, or lock an enemy in place and others. One common strategy is to toss an orb near the enemy, slow the orb and then fire at it to create an explosion that inflicts damage. This is a rather cool and fun mechanics in VR.
The quality of the title is very good and polished. There's no bugs whatsoever, and it is fun. Its one of the greatest shooter VR at the moment, but as it lacks content (which will be added), you should look elsewhere if you are looking for a meaty VR title now. Otherwise, consider this an early investment for a great VR game to come.
Fun little wave shooter with a very interesting idea. There is no room scale, it's a standing experience. Game is very fast. You need to turn around a lot.
In the right hand you have your weapon and in the left hand you have an orb ball. The gameplay works that you throw the orb ball on enemies, then you slow down the time and shoot the orb ball which explodes and kills the enemies around you.
This goes surprisingly fast and makes fun so far. Further, you can pick up different orbs like explosion.
At the moment there are only two levels. Not a lot, but it seems the developers working on more.
It is a good game to show off your Vive. It has nice effects, a lot of particles, great colour scheme and an easy game mechanic.
Don't expect a Raw Data or a fully fledged game.
But even if you are sceptical to buy a nother wave shooter, I recommend to take a look on this for the sale price of 5 EUR.
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Rom Extraction is perhaps my favorite VR game so far. Graphics are stunning and the action is as fast paced as i've seen in VR. The new stage and rifle have added a great amount of challenge and suprises to this game. I love challenging my family to set a high score and even I (a 64 yaer old man) can hang with them in this awesome arcade like shooter.
As you can see i have 20 minutes gametime. This includes doing the tutorial, messing with graphics settings, completing the game, going back to try the game again with even lower graphics settings. Total gameplay without the loading screens including tutorial is something like 12.
In those 12 minutes you get yet another wave-shooter, a quite pretty one that plays badly, the throwing of balls feels completely unnatural compared to throwing things in other games (like the lab or budget cuts) and the performance on my gtx 1070 was horrible, framerates as low as 40 fps was logged, usually bouncing between 60-80fps making for a nausious experience. This with graphics settings on normal and the supersampling feature (1.27x default) dialed back to 1.0.
Apparently this game features some new AMD technology (i saw it featured on the amd press release for vega) so maybe it plays better on an AMD gpu, an nvidia gtx 1070 is defently not enough to run this game thou so be ware nvidia users.
All in all this game adds absolutely nothing to the VR scene, its a simple wave shooter much like last years early games but with severe performance issues and not very immersive, doesnt feel like you are there due to unnatural controls.
It is simply one of those game devs that go "if we make pretty screenshots we dont need any content or gameplay"
If you are looking for an extremely short wave shooter (think every vive owner is sick of them by now thou) for the vive there are plenty of other options
The foundation and core mechanics of the game are there ,but there is a serious lack of content. With roughly 15 minutes of gameplay (including the 'expansion'), this title should be considered Early Access.
Ok, I've played 45 minutes of this game. And while it looks great, and has some nice music, it's not really grabbing me in the same way that some other wave VR shooters have (Space pirate trainer). The principle is to throw orbs with one hand, then shoot them with a gun in the other, to make them explode like grenades. You also have bullet time, which slows everything down, making it easier to shoot your orbs.
There are power-ups you can shoot which then change your orbs behaviour.
There are two levels here, but the game play is well nigh identical for both of them. Throw orbs at robots, slow time, and shoot the orbs, boom.
Here is my first problem with the game.
It requires you to throw orbs in VR, and they really don't often fly where you expect them to go. So you can throw a lot of orbs trying to get them to go into upper storey alcoves, where they really really don't want to go.
Not only that, you really have to throw them with your off hand, since you'll be shooting them with your main hand.
So what the game is asking you to do is, throw accurately with your off hand, then shoot the orbs. Which is tricky, and can be frustrating. Plus using the Touch controller, it doesn't really feel like throwing a ball, possibly because you aren't, and also, because you can't really judge the weight like you could with a real ball. With the vive wands, I imagine it's not a lot better.
Which brings me on to the second problem with the game.
You try and play this as a skill game, throwing and shooting orbs, and you will get a score of around 200,000. You can try harder, throwing, slowing time down, and shooting orbs. Several times. You'll consistently score around 200,000 before the time runs out and the level ends. OK.
But, you can also play, just spamming orbs in all directions, not bothering to slow or shoot them. Just randomly throwing them everywhere... without skill. You will score around 300,000. Which is a lot more, right? So where is the reward in playing skillfully? So the whole point of the game, and it's a score attack game, goes out the window. You'd be better off, if you could do away with the gun, and just throw orbs with both hands. In fact, if this was a water bomb filled with paint game, it might be a better, more fun game. It might even make more sence, since robots and paint wouldn't mix well. (Albeit ruining the future cyber punk aesthetic, for something more colourfully Nintendo-esqe! But then think how cool that neon paint effect in Tron Legacy was? It could work!)
Then there is the power-ups. You can't use them when you want, they are always the next orb you throw, so you might pick up a useful power-up, but have noone useful to throw it at. They also have some nice effects, like creating a trip wire, but the game is so frenetic, and with them being the next orb, you won't easily be able to make tactical use of them, and you'll probably just throw the orb at a nearby robot anyway, in the hope that it goes somewhere near them and does some damage.
Then there's the nominal, running out of health thing, because you are being shot at. Which is pointless, because, there's no point ducking for cover when there are so many robots in different directions, you are against the clock, and you have to see to throw orbs, and then shoot the orbs. Plus you never seem to be able to die on normal mode anyway, even when your health is apparently "critically low".
Then there is the bouncing of the orbs. When they bounce, they just accelerate away, in a ridiculous anti-physics way. So off the wall, bounce trick shots are impossible, because the orbs, post-bounce move too quickly to shoot, even in bullet time.
So, is it a great game? Not really, not yet anyway. Will I be playing it as adictively as that other wave shooter? Nope.
But, as a bit of high energy work out, and a bit of a change from space pirate trainer, it might be worth £3.74 of your money while it's on sale.
Im loving this game, its one of the few VR games i keep coming back to at the moment.
The graphics are great, the slow-mo is excellent, i love throwing out a light-grenade, hitting slow mo as it passes by an enemy and then shooting at it. The super slow-mo explosion looks beautiful and blasts enemies all over the room.
The music is excellent, some dirty electronic dubstep nonsense but really gets you pumped while everythings kicking off.
Its only good in short bursts though. This isnt Skyrim, its a quickfire, loud & fast (and slow) shooter, maybe 2/3 goes tops before the repitition sets in, but it sticks with you.. 30 mins later i'll want to play it again to try and beat my score. Its also a great party game, i've had a few people come round to play and trying to beat eachothers score was great fun.
I look forward to future content, at the moment its a bit limited, one gun, one level, one enemy... But the mechanics are absolutely solid. With more content this game could be great. Recommended.
The game is fun with good graphics but its too short for the price. Its basicly a demo.
Hopefuly they will add more content.
One enviroment, lots of robots. Like the good old arcade shooters.
PRO:
+ nice physics
+ bullet time
+ arcade feeling
CONTRA:
- lack of content (weapons, enemies, enviroments)
- price to value (discount purchase should be considered)
- lack of movement options
Unfortunately this is my first "not recommended" review. This "game" is awesome, very well polished and fun. However, it is a single mission and in my 17 minutes of play I managed to complete 3 separate playthroughs. This is more of a tech demo than a stand alone game. In under 20 minutes I've done it all, simply not enough content to warrant the price tag ($1 a minute in my case). I have refunded for now but once this title has more content it will certainly warrant a purchase.
Rom: Extraction is already my favorite VR game. It has that "Just one more try" pull of the great arcade shooters and looks phenomenal to boot. Having arms rendered in game has been a very noticeable and welcomed addition to the amount of immersion I've felt while playing. The social screen has been a blast as onlookers cheer on and warn of incoming threats. All around one of the most immersive and fun games I've played in the Vive.
Update 3/5/17:
The new level and weapon are great! The recent update even made it run way better for me too! There are now more options to control the sounds in game, the new menu area looks great and is laid out much better. Great update!!!
The price is a little high for content as it stands right now but in saying that this is a very polished game with no bugs as yet. The downside and my reason for the price is its download size is less than 600MB, You could fit this on a CD but the information on the store page says its 10GB and seeing that encourage me to buy this (GRRRR) so lets see how much more content is planed.
I am happy with the purchase though as it is a well presented and difficult game with great visuals and sound plus that feel of being a badass :)
Did i mention you have arms and the details and movement is perfect.
current state: 7.5/10
potental state: 9.5/10
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | First Contact Entertainment |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 61% положительных (82) |