VR game name: "Mars Odyssey"

Support device: HTC Vive

Game type: Simulation

Developer: Steel Wool Games

Publisher: Steel Wool Games

Version: official version

Online time: September 9, 2016

Price: ¥31 (Special price ¥18, September 16 deadline)

Buy link: steam platform

Game description: Mars Odyssey is a single VR simulation experience. Landing on the Earth's sister planet, strolling on Mars' surface, interacting with real NASA detectors and Edifiers. Learn about the history of this red planet and its geographic location in this interactive experience.

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Strong production team

Mars Odyssey is an interactive experience game developed by an independent VR content development studio in Oakland, USA. The studio is called Steel Wool Studios and includes games from Pixar Animation Studios, Lucas Films and Telltale Game. The former senior creative staff of the studio officially announced the completion of its A round of financing, and all the 5 million US dollars received came from HTC.

According to the studio, they combined games, simulation techniques and narrative techniques to create a composite VR project, and Mars Odyssey was one of its results. At the same time, in order to maximize the reality, Steel Wool Studios used the engineering drawings and location information of the space agency to create reality, and also analyzed the terrain and height maps published by the space agency to create a real Martian surface.

An unforgettable trip to Mars

In the game, the player plays an astronaut on the Mars space station. In the beginning, you will see a red and green double-button switch that controls a window in the space station. Open it to see the Mars outside the window. Constantly rotating, different from the sky blue of the earth, Mars is a piece of orange. There are a lot of consoles and displays around the room where the player is located, but after trying all the buttons on the console, I found that these are all furnishings and have no control functions. The number of interactive scenes is too small. Disappointed.

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Mars Odyssey | Image Source: Blackbird

When you go out from the hatch, you will see a cross-cut, which is connected to three rooms. However, the movement of the teleport in the game is not compatible with the setting of the space station. Of course, the movement in the weightless universe is still floating. have a feeling. In the room 02 on the right is a science and education course to introduce the player to the solar system, the Earth and Mars. What impressed me the most was the introduction of Mount Olympus on Mars (the highest mountain on Mars and the highest mountain in the solar system) and the Valles Marineris Canyon (the largest canyon in the solar system) with text, 3D images and Audio introduction, granting this knowledge to the player from visual acuity and feeling, respectively, is better than the effect of the last 10 geography classes.

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Mars Odyssey | Image Source: Blackbird

In Room 03 on the left, you can let the player land on Mars to perform the mission. After sitting on an unseen aircraft and descending to Mars, the field of vision has changed a little. You can see a helmet mirror in front of your eyes. Mars, which is not suitable for human survival, really needs to wear spacesuits. In addition, it is indeed wearing a Vive helmet in reality, which is quite astronauts. One of the tasks was to repair the Viking2 detector, but when I was on the spaceship, I looked at the orange-red yellow land on Mars and thought of Armstrong's famous saying: "This is a small step for the individual, and it is indeed a big step for mankind." Under the fact that you can't step into Mars in your lifetime, you can experience a trip to Mars with virtual reality technology, which is the biggest highlight of this game.

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Mars Odyssey | Image Source: Blackbird

The Viking2 detector model was perfect, bare wires, yellowed metal surfaces eroded by loess, and even some screws were actually restored. Just such a Viking2 detector is lively in front of you, letting you observe 360° without a dead angle, this experience can't be done even if you go to the exhibition museum. Not only that, the player can simply interact with it, pick up the signal receiver that falls on the ground, put it back in its original position and re-weld it with the left-hand solderer, and put the defective sensor module Positive, the welding is fixed. Although it may seem simple, when you really try to repair the detector little by little, the satisfaction of trying new things can't be expressed in words.

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Mars Odyssey | Image Source: Blackbird

to sum up

The game is mainly composed of two parts, one is the introduction of knowledge, the second is the task interaction, and the official is also very conscience in the game introduction that the game duration of this game is 20 minutes, compared to the same type The game "Everest VR" did not do this. Both of these games are interactive experience games. This can be said to be a game category derived from virtual reality technology. The biggest feature of this type of game is that it can make ordinary people feel comfortable in a comfortable environment. Some experiences.

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