You believed tower defense is only about building towers? That's not quite right – because AIRA VR is not like other tower defense games in virtual reality. Once the battle starts you find yourself in the midst of the fight! AIRA VR merges the strategic elements of the tower defense genre and the thrilling action of a first person shooter in an intelligent manner and combines the best of both worlds in virtual reality.
The game consists of two phases. The strategic phase starts in the command ship, where the player maps out a defensive strategy by building towers on the holographic tactic table. In the action phase the player will be teleported into the level itself to actively prevent the enemy spaceships from destroying our facility alongside his towers. By progressing through the game, you can unlock different towers and powerful weapons, each needing to be handled differently, to fight against increasingly stronger and diverse types of enemies.
Good take on Tower Defense. In contrast to most of the other tower defense vr games out there, Aira VR shows from the beginning it tries to encapsulate the depth and complexity normaly found in non-vr games. The game is split into a tactical phase on the spaceship where you place towers (lots of types to choose from with a variety of different effects to counter the different enemies) and a battle phase where you get dropped onto the level and actually fight the enemy alongside your towers. Instead of just getting a single bow(which is also included) the game provides a variety of different weapons. Though it starts slow at the beginning, while progressing the story lots of cool guns get unlocked. The enemies are also plenty, with new types appearing every level of the campaign. It is also nice they have an actual story leading you through the game. While it's apparent it is an indie production, it was nice to see something which is more than just the game mechanics. While the graphics surely can not compete with large studios, you can see they made the best of what they had and the game looks rather nice for a VR title. Overall the game was quite fun and fitting for its price range
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