Polybius gameplay

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There is not much point in providing screen shots or 2D video, but here is Nine inch nails' awesome video for Less than instead ( backstory): I would not be surprised if that was the case, come to think of it. It is fair to say it looks and feels retro, but it is completely at home on this brand new platform, as if all Llamasoft was waiting for was for technology to catch up to their visions. Here we are in 2017, and through my brand new VR headset flows the most Minter of Minter creations, one of the purest shooters and an excellent example of what VR can do. Not only has Jeff Minter kept making games, one of them is brand new and was immediately recommended to me when I mentioned my purchase of the Playstation VR: Polybius. Simple gameplay wrapped in a fantastically trippy package, they felt to me like an artifact of ages past, gems created by an auteur but which had fallen by the wayside as the world moved on to more complexity, fancier machines and new ways to play.

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Wild, abstract, and very pure pieces of action art which did the most of each platform's ability to smoothly display as many colours and shapes as possible on the screen at once. I associate him mainly with his frantic shooters. I do not know when I first heard of Jeff Minter, but I had played his games before it happened.

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