Buy The Collider 2

The Collider 2 features lightning fast gameplay which requires even faster reaction times. Its responsive controls and general difficulty curve provide a great level of challenge and fuel an addiction that’ll have you retry its missions over and over again. However, those who prioritise story won’t find it here, and others may consider it repetitive. Thanks to Unreal Engine 4, this game looks dazzling from one sector to the next. The Collider 2 fires you out into space to captain your Starfighter, taking on intergalactic invaders with breakneck speed and manic manoeuvres. It almost makes you wonder why Mass Effect hasn’t released a game around Star Wars pod racing yet.

Pros
+ Smooth Controls
+ Difficulty curve makes for an addictive challenge
+ Sector-by-sector aesthetics are great

Cons
- Only 3 different mission types may get repetitive
- Having to buy upgrades for each ship all over again

The full review can be found here: http://www.keengamer.com/article/13538_the-collider-2-review

This game isn't exceptionally challenging or genre defining, but it runs incredibly smoothly and has enough variety to stay consistantly good. Bonus: The music is dramatic and I wasn't bothered by vr sickness despite the fast movement in every level! Buy it to have a game with good replayability in your library.

Not sure why so many negative reviews. This game is an absolute BLAST to play on the Oculus Rift. Just make sure you put the sensitivity settings all the way to max so you can easily steer your ship with a slight nod or tilt of your head. Not doing so will make the ship too hard to control. Once you nail the controls down the game an INCREDIBLE feeling of speed and immersion never before seen in other games. I feel it is absolutely worth the asking price.

This reminded me of a couple older games I enjoyed when I was a kid (Novastorm and Terminal Velocity specifically) so I decided to give it a shot.

It's a pretty solid entry to the runner genre. Graphics are nice, unlike most games of this sort it was not built for smartphones which shows in the slick visuals and presentation.

Gameplay is simple, you dodge obstacles until you get to the end of the mission. Stick to move, trigger to boost. There are also three different camera modes: third person zoomed, third person close, and first person.

Missions have various objectives to complete with bronze, silver, and gold ranks attainable. There is the standard time trial in addition to a mode where you're blowing up mines (point the crosshair at them and you shoot automatically), one where you're collecting pickups, and boss fights. Missions get steadily tougher, especially as you progress through the sectors, each of which introduce new obstacles and differently themed visuals to encounter.

There's a solid amount of content here with 6 sectors, each of which presumably has 9 missions. You will also unlock survival mode fairly early on into the campaign.

Success is largely tied to how well you manage your boost. Boosting gives a short increase to your mauverability, so using it in bursts can be beneficial in certain areas. For time trials you generall want to boost as much as possible, but you will start to overheat eventually. If you completely overheat your ship blows up and you have to restart the mission. Letting off the boost lets your ship cool down, as represented by a bar at the bottom of the screen.

There is a progression system where you collect coins to level up. Leveling up grants you an even larger chunk of coins. You then spend them on new ships, ship upgrades, and powerup duration upgrades which will be required in order to achieve gold rank on some missions.

Each mission requires a certain ship, so if you spent too much and don't have enough to unlock the one you need to progress, you may need to go back and grind missions you've already completed.

The game's music is generic, I recommend turning it off and playing your own instead. Sound effects are also nothing to write home about but they get the job done.

I have one major gripe and it's that the layout of the missions seems to be somewhat randomized. Placement of obstacles is always the same, but the type of obstacle you encounter can differ slightly. This has the potential to create zones from hell that are almost impossible to navigate without forgoing your boost completely, which is a big problem on time trial missions.

Powerup types are also random, which has a terrible effect on gameplay. For example, there are some sections of each mission where you will get a powerup right before hitting some ridiculously tightly packed obstacles. You were obviously meant to get the shield powerup, which will let you clip right through everything while invulnerable, but instead the game decided to give you the unlimited boost powerup, which is next to worthless here. Likewise, you will also encounter long, open sections with no obstacles at all and lots of coins to pick up. You were obviously meant to have the unlimited boost powerup here, but the game decided to give you shield invulnerability instead, which will end up being completely wasted.

All this randomization means achieving gold rank is often a matter of repeating the mission over and over until you get the perfect setup: the right powerups when you need them, and obstacles that can be navigated without sacrificing speed.

Overall though, there is enough content and polish here to warrent a recommendation. Note that this review is the standard non-VR version of the game.

Needs OSVR support!!!

Played on HTC Vive. Driving a ship by moving the head is not fun.
All I want is to play using my joystick and be immersed in the cockpit. But you can't either be in the cockpit and look around or control the ship using regular control. It's just a crappy minigame that will make your neck hurt.

Are you kidding me? You are controlling the ship by moving the head. So far so good and nothing new, but using the Oculus Rift (seated of course) it is nearly impossible to reach the upper doors, coins or addons. There needs to be a sensitivity option for the OR headset or just change the way you steer to where you look instead of how you move your head.

Not recommended for Oculus Rift users.

Good game, I've tried in non-VR mode and all I can say it's that mouse input is fantastic and the game is very fluid, well paced. I like the progression of the game and the ship upgrades system.

Absolutely love this game - in survival mode after few minutes the adreanaline level is just unbelievable - you can feel your blood pumping through veins and recognize every heartbeat!

Last time I felt like this was after Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster in Cedar Point!

Damn awesome game. Once familiar with the boost, every match is like riding rollar coaster !!! XD