Best Games of October 2018, According to Metacritic
3) Astro Bot Rescue Mission – Metacritic Score: 90
PlayStation VR has had a great second half of 2018. With Firewall Zero Hour releasing a couple of months ago, From Software’s Deracine just launching, and Tetris Effect on the horizon, there are plenty of reasons to own Sony’s headset. Arguably the greatest reason, though, is Astro Bot Rescue Mission, which has surprisingly planted itself as one of PSVR’s greatest titles.
It’s a standard platformer in essence, taking advantage of virtual reality at every possible point. You float behind Astro Bot in each level as you control his jumps and attacks in varying locations. There are swimming levels, mine-cart style ones, and standard platforming affair, and they’re all phenomenally designed.
Your little robot friend is charming, with you being able to interact with him as you explore, and head-tracking is used well to add complexity to the gameplay. Astro Bot Rescue Mission proves, as Moss did earlier in the year, that VR can be great when it comes to tried and tested genres that we incorrectly thought we’d seen everything from.
