Nueva entrega de Dustoff Heli Rescue considerablemente mejor que el primero, que ya era divertido (y luego hay otra entrega con gráficos exponencialmente mejores, pero aún no lo he jugado, pero en el que parece perderse la simplicidad arcade tan elegante de las dos entregas originales).

Este juego es una delicia. 35 niveles con retos asequibles que dan varias horas de diversión. Me he sacado el 100% de los logros en 13 horas y es bastante posible que en el futuro vuelva a jugarlo. Sorprendentemente adictivo para ser un juego que básicamente se controla con dos botones (simplificando mucho, porque dar media vuelta con la cruceta facilita mucho los aterrizajes). El mundo de juego ya no es tan simplón como DHR1 y aquí los gráficos ya resultan bastante atractivos en su elegancia cúbica reminiscente a la de Minecraft. La dificultad va escalando lentamente y esto se va acompañando de más y mejores helicópteros y armas, y hay una variedad adecuada de escenarios y de mecánicas, pues hay misiones de destrucción, de construcción (?!), de escolta o de rescate, y combinas escaramuzas en campo abierto con descensos a grutas que añaden algo de complicación pero también muy necesaria variedad.

Llegué al primer DHR tras intentar jugar a Choplifter HD y darme con el muro de su desproporcionada dificultad, encontrándome con un juego modesto pero divertido y con buena dificultad. Esta nueva entrega ya la he disfrutado no buscando sucedáneos o sustitutos de Choplifter sino por haber disfrutado DHR1 y me he encontrado un juego aún mejor y que puedo recomendar sin reservas. Buena diversión arcade para pasar el rato sin complicaciones.

I refunded the game for several reasons. First, this game isn't even optimised well for PC. I can run games like Doom and Battlefront perfectly fine, but this small thing stutters. Another problem is the hedious UI, which screams that this game was MEANT for a mobile device. Which brings me to my biggest argument to avoid this steam port: the game is FREE on iOS. It is baffling they ask 15 euros for it here, or even just for 3,50 during a sale. The game even runs better on my Iphone 5! The grindy nature of the game - which is farming coins to get better weapons and heli's to be atleast competent halfway into the game - better suits small bursts of gameplay while you wait on the bus or something.

As for the game itself, I already adressed the repetitive nature of it, but I should also write about the overly simplistic controls. It's not analog, and far too limiting in your options when it comes to movement and engaging combat. The weirdest choice the dev has made, has to be the inability to fire on command. As of right now, your heli automaticly fires at nearby enemies, but considering that your ammo can run out and that you have to spent coins to get more ammo, really seems unfair for those just trying to save money to get better equipement.

I did recommend the first game, especially since I bought it on Steam for only 60 cents, but paying anything more than zero cents for this doesn't seem right to me.

eh. what can i say about this game, outside VR this game was pretty fun to casually kill time, but in VR it looks kind of like crap. it seems like a quick cash in on the whole VR wave. if it was built for VR then i might think differently about this game but i cant recommend this game if youre looking for a nice VR title. play it in 2D

BAD
The first one is great, but this one is just so bad..

Meh. That's my opinion of this game. It's not an awful game, but it gets very repetitive & grindy pretty quickly. And there's never an evolution. It's just a matter of controlling your helicopter in the air and trying not to take much damage ... and you either do or don't have enough firepower upgrades to complete the mission.

That's the disappointing part of this game. Missions can be very easy ... if you go back to prior missions and upgrade your arsenal. Then you'll be destroying enemies below. Well, not you but the autofire on your helicopter will. All you're really doing is piloting the heli. And by piloting we mean controlling how high or low in the air it goes and how fast you're going sideways. That's really all the controls you have. The rest is just upgrades that you need to progress and the autofire doing its thing.

Does that sound fun? I'm glad I only paid $2.49. I think I got 1 hour worth of entertainment. Then I trudged on for an additional hour hoping something would change. But nope, just more grinding necessary to complete levels. There are nice upgrades. That's probably the best thing about this game ... new helis and turrets & missiles to get. Still, I don't think that's enough. Close call, but I'm going to have to say no recommendation.

Rate 4.5/10. Probably would have voted yes recommendation if this had been a .99 cents mobile VR game.

This game reminds me of choplifter and Rescue Raiders from the old days. Would like a little more options in missions instead of a single path. Would like to see more of a Rescue Raiders RTS type of gameplay but it still is pretty fun with just the missions. Love the pixelated voxel graphics.

Despite for the Minecraft cubed style and the mobile root, I've to say than Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 is a good game and also a good VR production. It's a seated + pad experience, but uses the pad in an original and effective way, fit the gameplay like a glove.

The main game is a campaign of 30 missions, you mix different kind of goals (attack, defend, rescue, deliver) with different helicopters and equipments. The gameplay itself is a sort of modern Defender, so a side scroller shooter, where VR is used to add depth and perspective to the whole. It's indie but quite polished to see, with a decent amount of variety among scenery and missions, and ton of unlockables.

In a flat monitor context 15$ would be too step (if I'm not wrong is freemium on mobile with in app purchases) but for VR the standard is different, so it's an acceptable price. There is room for a glorified scrolling tradition in VR, Tinertia is just marvellous for example, this one not as good but surely competent and enjoyable.

this game is terrible the controls are crap and its game is poorly made, so i want a complete refund

it's a fun game.

EDIT : Almost 2 months since I reported a few problems (including 3 achievements not unlocking), and 1.5 months since the last post from a dev. Changing this review to negative until I see any evidence that this game is actually still alive.

EDIT2 : After 3 months of silence, the game is back on track, with a new update (on beta at the time I'm writing this, but should be released quickly), which fixed the last 3 achievements not unlocking and a texture problem on level 30 (and probably other things, but I don't have time anymore to retest everything). So this review goes back to "recommended" :)

I had great fun with the first one (review over here : http://steamcommunity.com/id/merfab76/recommended/341730/) and so far, after 5 hours and nearly half-game I think, I have as much fun with this one.

This early access is very polished, and from what I can tell, the game is pretty much complete. I don't know what the devs have planned (apparently VR support ?), it could have easily been a release instead of an early access, it seems.

Almost everything I said on the review of the first one is still valid for this one (I have the feeling this one is a bit more difficult than the previous, though), if you want a little more details, here's the feedback I sent on the forums : http://steamcommunity.com/app/553690/discussions/0/154644787617726234/