When comparing Brookhaven Experiment vs Hover Junkers, the Slant community recommends Hover Junkers for most people. In the question“What are the best HTC Vive games?” Hover Junkers is ranked 12th while Brookhaven Experiment is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Hover Junkers is:
This isn't the type of game where you just press a button to reload or crouch. If you want to duck behind cover you have to actually do it. To reload you have to pop open the barrel, press the touch pad in a pattern and swing the controller to pop it back in. This makes the game feel more real.
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Pros
Pro Extremely creepy/scary atmosphere
The premise of the game is that you need to ward off waves of zombies coming at you from all sides. What makes this excel as a VR title is the immersiveness of the environment. Sound production in the game is superb, it is multi directional and allows the player to hear each and every creature coming at them with a clear sense of what direction they are. On top of this the visual are quite dark and creepy in that you have to use a flashlight in order to see what is coming at you. So you are constantly trying to reveal what is coming and from where in quite a bit of darkness. The creatures themselves also look quite scary, which just ads to the horror of the game.
Pro Fully a complete self contained game
When many games for VR are considered tech demos or early access, Brookhaven is actually a finished title, complete with a story and an ending. While normally this is not much of a feat, to sell a finished game, currently VR does not offer a ton of titles that are feature and story complete.
Pro Innovative and immersive experience
This isn't the type of game where you just press a button to reload or crouch. If you want to duck behind cover you have to actually do it. To reload you have to pop open the barrel, press the touch pad in a pattern and swing the controller to pop it back in. This makes the game feel more real.
Pro Huge variety of weapons
There is now a huge variety of weapons, well designed and also well balanced.
Pro Strategic loot based gameplay
The loot earned in the game can be found out in the wasteland inside of shipping containers. The player needs to use their welding gun to shoot them open to then gather the loot. Strategy comes into to play as it takes time to haul the loot in, which leaves the player vulnerable to enemies, so it is bet to wait to do this in until an opportune moment arrives. Once the loot is obtained, some can be used for cover on ones ship, making their ships stronger, the rest can be used to earn a higher score in the game.
Pro Fun multiplayer
Hover Junkers was one of the first multiplayer games on the Vive, and remains to be one of the few multiplayer games available. Being multiplayer based it is fun to mess around with friends or to play seriously with them. Up to 8 players can play at the same time and in game voice chat is built in.
Pro Strategic weapons
This game has 3 weapons so far and has more planned to come. They each have advantages and disadvantages and learning to use them at the right time can make a difference.
Cons
Con Can feel repetitive
Wave after wave of enemy, while being forced to basically being forced to stand in one place can not only feel a bit unnatural, but also quite repetitive, as there is little to change up this scenario in the game. While the stages can be quite different, offering a good bit change to the scenery, the gameplay itself stays the same throughout.
Con Poor netcode
There can be lag during multiplayer, which can easily ruin ones aim and competency to shoot accurately.
Con Longer shots can be difficult
While not an issue in the shooting range, when in the meat the gameplay, enemies tend to be the same color as their ships making them difficult to see. This means that most shots need to be made in close quarters in order to visibly see who you are shooting at, which limits the gameplay a bit.
Con Limited and unpolished experience
The game while presented as a finished title (it is not in early access but is a full release) often feels unfinished. The guns in the game are limited to only three, the menus have frame drops giving an unpolished feel. The shooting mechanics often feel a bit too loose making them not very precise, which leads to more luck based gameplay over skill. The maps do not really feel all that different, giving a "same" vibe. Overall it feels like an early access game, but is being sold as a finished title.
Con Small amount of players online
Being this is a game only playable on an 800 dollar piece of hardware that only really runs well on an expensive gaming computer, as well as the fact that this is a fairly new game, there are not all that many players online to play with. Being that right now this a multiplayer only game, having few players is a bit of a problem (but that's not the game's fault).