My brief few minutes in Fallout 4 VR were mostly spent wandering around the Red Rocket station just outside Sanctuary. While my immediate impulse was to sprint off and try to reach Diamond City, the personnel managing the demo booth discouraged me from leaving the immediate area, as scripted events were confined to the zone near the service station. They assured me that the rest of the world was out there, but the spirit of Fallout lives and breathes in exploration, and I wanted to blaze my own trail, experiencing the rich and detailed Commonwealth through new eyes.
What I did manage to see certainly was pretty. Colors and textures were sharp, and the enticing silhouetted structures and rolling hills teasing me from the distance looked lovely in the midday sun. I took a couple of minutes orienting myself to the sense of immersion, looking around just for the sake of taking everything in and soaking up a satisfying and surprisingly convincing illusion of my transportation not to some semblance of reality, but rather to some wonderfully electric, digitally-defined otherworld.
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What I did manage to see certainly was pretty. Colors and textures were sharp, and the enticing silhouetted structures and rolling hills teasing me from the distance looked lovely in the midday sun. I took a couple of minutes orienting myself to the sense of immersion, looking around just for the sake of taking everything in and soaking up a satisfying and surprisingly convincing illusion of my transportation not to some semblance of reality, but rather to some wonderfully electric, digitally-defined otherworld.
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