Разработчик: VHornet Games
Описание
Space Invaders in VR
Outpost L5 is a planet defense game in virtual reality. Control a base at the Lagrange point L5, near Earth. It's the last surviving battle station and you are in control of its remaining ships that stand between Earth and the Armada of Invading Aliens.
Tackle wave upon wave of the ever advancing enemy as they get closer and closer to the station. If they capture it, Earth is next. Hold out as long as you can.
Find Power Ups, Enhanced Weapons, Shields and even Extra Ships, but they won't last long, so use them wisely.
This classic arcade space shooter set in VR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift and will remind you of early 8 bit shooters. In first person virtual reality, it brings a refreshing change to the old school arcade game.
Climb to the top of the Steam High Score Leader Board and Defend Earth.
Or it will be....
Game Over
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 150 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 150 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Outpost L5 is an older game from 2016. It's a venerable 9 years old at the time of this review.
It's an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Space Invaders (Copyright Taito, 1978). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Taito against the "developer" here, but it's never off the table, as previous copyright law cases have shown.
Putting aside the unethical intellectual bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept for profit, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. Outpost L5 is considerably worse than Space Invaders. The only differentiator here is that it's in VR from a first person perspectic (so the aliens are coming in at you on a flat plane?? Makes no sense).
With such a poorly done derivative work, it's unsurprising there's a number of technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.
This seems to have been made a VR exclusive to prevent any comparison with non-VR 3D games, a comparison that this game would fail very badly at. Developers must learn that while VR is great, if the only thing that makes the game great is the VR, then the game isn't great at all.
The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
Outpost L5 didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "L1", for finishing the first level, trivial to get, but less than 11 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, even the people who own this game weren't interested in it.
The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?
Outpost L5 is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | VHornet Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 0% положительных (1) |