Lone Echo nails the 3 keys to VR gaming

Most virtual reality games are leaving me cold these days. The latest shooting gallery doesn’t even register in my brain anymore, and even the more original games have to get some buzz before I’ll try them. Thankfully, Lone Echo has picked up enough hype that I took the time to sit down with my Oculus Rift to try it out.

Lone Echo is the first major VR release from developer Ready At Dawn, which is responsible for the excellent PSP God of War games. It is a narrative exploration adventure where you play as Jack, a robotic companion to the sole human on a space station. Things go wrong, and you have to zoom around in zero-G by grabbing onto surfaces and flinging yourself where you want to go. That locomotion is one of the big reasons that Lone Echo works, but Ready At Dawn has incorporated several other amazing VR elements to make one of the best Oculus Rift releases so far.