When comparing GRID Autosport vs Chronos, the Slant community recommends GRID Autosport for most people. In the question“What are the best Oculus Rift games?” GRID Autosport is ranked 8th while Chronos is ranked 39th. The most important reason people chose GRID Autosport is:
Handling a car in Autosport is both streamlined and forgiving enough to make it approachable, yet complicated enough to give players a bit of a challenge. The game also avoids the issue GRID 2 had of having the same one-size-fits-all steering.
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Pros
Pro Well-balanced sim-cadey handling
Handling a car in Autosport is both streamlined and forgiving enough to make it approachable, yet complicated enough to give players a bit of a challenge. The game also avoids the issue GRID 2 had of having the same one-size-fits-all steering.
Pro Detailed damage model
In addition to traditional bumps, hits and crashes that will damage the car and make it more difficult to drive in way that depends on the damaged part, there's also wear and tear to worry about. For example, over-revving and shifting early will wear the gearbox quicker and late breaking will damage the brakes.
Pro Has a good variety of game types
Autosport has 5 game types - Touring, Endurance, Open Wheel, Tuner, and Street with additional game modes available through DLC. Each type has a different handling model and different cars.
Pro No VR sickness
Since the player and the character are stationary with the vehicle creating a frame of reference, much of the issues with motion sickness are avoided.
Pro Easier control of the camera
Often thir person games require a bit of manual control of the camera in order to adjust to what is going on around them and see where enemies and the rest of the environment is. This is normally done through controls on the keyboard or controller meaning not only are you controlling the character, but also the camera at the same time, which always requires a bit of juggling. What Chronos does is puts the camera control in the VR headset in that all you need to do is turn your head in order to change camera angles, this frees up manual control of the character to the keyboard or controller in that the camera will be controlled through natural and intuitive movements of ones head.
Cons
Con Uneven graphical fidelity
Some textures are considerably higher quality than others. For example, the cockpit is really low-res, so much so that the needles don't even move, giving a feeling of an unpolished product.
Con Menus are not in VR, so you have to take off the Rift after each race
Menus are not in VR, so you have to take off the Rift after each race
Con VR support is experimental
As the support is only experimental changing certain settings in-game may crash the game.
Con Unlicensed cars
Con Fully exclusive to Occulus
Chronos is being released only for the Oculus Rift, which mean the game will not be able to be played without a very expensive peripheral. This shuts out many potential users, much like console platform exclusivity. many do not see this as a good thing, though some might.