REVIEW : Jetpack Vacation (PC)
Get ready to take off! With your own handheld jetpacks, explore a tropical paradise where you may socialise with other players, score goals in Jetpack Stadium, and try your hand at target shooting! Prepare your virtual suitcases for your own Jetpack Vacation! With your own handheld jetpacks, take to the skies and unlock the sky! Tourism Infinity invites you to visit Jetpack Island, a tropical paradise and the starting point for thrilling jetpack excursions.
Designed for all ages as a pick-up-and-play virtual reality (VR) jetpacking games. Players will be able to fly, dive, and shoot their way through a variety of mini-games – or excursions as Tourism Infinity likes to call them – using a pair of handheld jetpacks, including Target Practice, Jetpack Soccer, and Jetpack shooting.
Target Practice is a single-player and multiplayer game in which players race across a tropical island shooting as many targets as they can in order to score the most points. Jetpack Soccer is a faster and more furious version of the sport, while Jetpack Racing requires players to fly through a constantly changing obstacle course. Alternatively, take it easy and explore the sunny paradise with those handy jetpack hands, which will lead you to a plethora of classic locations and hidden passageways.
I expected there to be more to it. You have a small island to fly about on and three mini games to play. There’s a shooting range with a haphazard collection of targets. It would have been more fun if there was a strategy to the chaos, but all you do is choose a direction and fly around shooting fixed targets that change colours when you strike them. It’s not bad, but after finishing it, I didn’t feel compelled to try it again.
Then there’s some online football/soccer (depending on where you are in the world, I think), which fell flat for me. My pals don’t have the game, and there didn’t appear to be any other gamers waiting either.
Jetpack Vacation presently contains a main hub area where you can explore and gather coins, as well as a multiplayer only game based on the Rocket League, a target practise mini-game, and an experimental WIP obstacle course racing mini-game (Fall Guys inspired). Jetpack Vacation’s current issue is that it lacks a playerbase and also need additional content.
I did, however, enjoy playing the mini-game inspired by Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. It was enjoyable to play alone, but I can only image how much more enjoyable it would be to race against other gamers online. If they focused on this WIP, I believe Jetpack Vacation might have a killer app mini-game to attract more people.
The last is an obstacle course that is currently being built. It’s a shame, because this was by far the most enjoyable aspect of the game. You fly through a maze of spinning wheels, fan blades, bouncing balls, and other obstacles. Flying is enjoyable in and of itself. You can pick up boosts to help you fly a little quicker, but they never seem to provide you much of an advantage. Overall, turning and movement are well-implemented, with no instances of motion sickness.
