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GUNGRAVE VR

Despite being only 45 minutes long, Gungrave VR manages to showcase an overwhelmingly high amount of terrible decisions, boring gameplay, and barebone plot.
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31%Game Brain Score
humor
story, gameplay
49% User Score Based on 17 reviews
Critic Score 30%Based on 2 reviews

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GUNGRAVE VR is a single player shooter game with horror, comedy, anime and science fiction themes. It was developed by IGGYMOB Co.,Ltd and was released on March 6, 2019. It received negative reviews from critics and neutral reviews from players.

Deadman assassin Brandon "Beyond the Grave" Heat returns in a virtual reality requel to the original title.

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49%
Audience ScoreBased on 17 reviews
humor1 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions

  • The game preserves the fast, chaotic combat and stylish gunplay from the original Gungrave series, offering nostalgic action fans a brief dose of the character's iconic style.
  • Audio design is praised, featuring a heavy rock soundtrack, punchy sound effects, and signature weapon sounds that match the series' attitude.
  • It has provided meaningful bonding experiences for some players, serving as a fun way to spend time with others despite its flaws.
  • The VR implementation is clunky and awkward, with poor controller support, head-aiming causing neck strain, disorienting camera changes, and limited movement in VR.
  • The game is very short, with only a few stages and minimal additional content, making it feel more like an overpriced demo or fragment than a full experience.
  • Graphically, it feels dated with underwhelming visuals and lacks options for graphical settings; repetitive gameplay and weak enemy AI further diminish engagement.
  • story
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is widely criticized for being short, disjointed, and incomplete, with added missions feeling like fragmented content rather than a cohesive narrative. Many users find it lacking meaningful depth or contribution to the overall world, making it unengaging unless you are a dedicated fan.

    • “Unless you're really a diehard fan of the series and it's on sale for dirt cheap, I wouldn't recommend it, and even then it's not really worth it, pretty much adds nothing to the story and the world.”
    • “Unfortunately, the first thing you'll notice here is that there isn't much story here, really.”
    • “Adds extra missions, but together they still feel like fragments of a larger, incomplete project.”
    • “Unless you're really a diehard fan of the series and it's on sale for dirt cheap, I wouldn't recommend it, and even then it's not really worth it; it pretty much adds nothing to the story and the world.”
    • “Unfortunately, the first thing you'll notice here is that... there isn't much story here, really.”
  • gameplay
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is criticized for being repetitive, lacking variety and challenge, and overall underwhelming, making the short playtime feel unsatisfactory. Limited settings and simplistic mechanics further diminish the experience.

    • “The graphics are so underwhelming they’re kind of bad to look at in VR, and with no way to adjust antialiasing or any other setting, and with such lackluster gameplay that isn’t worth looking at, why keep playing?”
    • “The gameplay loop becomes repetitive quickly, offering little variety or challenge.”
    • “That's right, twenty five bucks for forty minutes of gameplay, during which you'll beat a short series of tiny little levels and unlock a new skin.”
  • graphics
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics capture the classic series' aesthetic but are underwhelming and lack visual polish, especially in VR. The absence of adjustable settings like antialiasing further hampers the visual experience, contributing to a less compelling gameplay.

    • “The graphics are so underwhelming they’re kind of bad to look at in VR, and with no way to adjust antialiasing or any other setting, and with such lackluster gameplay that isn’t worth looking at, why keep playing?”
    • “It captures the aesthetic of the classic series but fails to deliver a compelling VR experience.”
  • music
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music features a heavy rock soundtrack and punchy sound effects that maintain the series' attitude, though some users find it mediocre overall.

    • “The heavy rock soundtrack and punchy sound effects retain the series’ attitude.”
    • “Mediocre music.”
  • humor
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game seems to fall flat, with players expressing frustration rather than amusement, particularly highlighting the irony of poor controller support in a VR-focused title. Overall, the intended humor does not resonate well with users.

  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game has a very short campaign, lasting about an hour, and offers limited replayability aside from attempting to achieve higher scores.

    • “The campaign is very short—about an hour—and offers little replay value beyond chasing higher scores.”
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GUNGRAVE VR is a shooter game with horror, comedy, anime and science fiction themes.

GUNGRAVE VR is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Virtual Reality, Windows and others.

GUNGRAVE VR was released on March 6, 2019.

GUNGRAVE VR was developed by IGGYMOB Co.,Ltd.

GUNGRAVE VR has received negative reviews from players and negative reviews from critics. Most players liked GUNGRAVE VR for its humor but disliked it for its story.

GUNGRAVE VR is a single player game.

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