Defector is the VR spy adventure that riffs on ’90s action flicks

Twisted Pixel Games‘ Defector is a virtual reality game that pays homage to the over-the-top spy flicks of the ’90s: explosions, high-tech gadgets, espionage, shootouts, and more explosions. It’s the kind of game where you drive a car off one plane and onto another, running over some dudes while you’re at it. It doesn’t yet have a release date but it will be arriving on the Oculus Rift sometime later this year.

I played about half an hour of Defector, and from what I can gather, the game is an enjoyable blend of hokey undercover agent tropes and semi-realistic gunfights. As a secret agent, I was on a mission to find out where the Big Bad, Pascal Rupert, was stashing toxic gas that he’d use for nefarious deeds. Of course, everything went south, and after a brief conversation with him, he called for security to drag me away. Luckily, I had a partner who was already undercover as part of Rupert’s entourage, and she helped me knock him out so that we could move him elsewhere.