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Job Simulator\u2019s enduring popularity is no coincidence: it is, after all, the quintessential virtual reality game. Spread across four impressively interactive occupations, you\u2019ll turn your comically exaggerated hands to all kinds of amusing tasks, like cooking the books as an office worker and dealing with a robbery as a convenience store clerk. As with the original PSVR<\/strong> version, the gameplay feels chunky and responsive, and it\u2019s made even more tactile thanks to the accuracy of the PSVR2 Sense Controllers.<\/p>\n

The ongoing gag is that said \u201csimulations\u201d are being conducted by robots (depicted as 90s CRT monitors with expressive faces on their screens) in attempt to help them better understand the lives of humans. Of course, they haven\u2019t quite grasped the concept of \u201cwork\u201d, so while many of the activities will feel familiar, they\u2019re pointed and chaotic, underlining the stupidity and tedium of it all. The title\u2019s laugh out loud funny from beginning to end, and is a rare example of interactive comedy that\u2019s genuinely funny.<\/p>\n

The silliness of the premise is only enhanced by the slapstick nature of the gameplay; while the game is outrageously polished, it embraces some of the inherent scrappiness of virtual reality, and thus encourages you to make a bit of a mess. Each environment acts a small sandbox, and you can interact with pretty much everything you see \u2013 even when you\u2019re not supposed to. While the PSVR original was quite claustrophobic, owing to the limitations of the hardware, full room-scale is used in this PSVR2<\/strong> port to allow you a little more space to operate.<\/p>\n

But while this greatly improves each activity, and the visuals are razor-sharp throughout, it\u2019s worth pointing out that this is the same game you\u2019ll likely already have played; a free upgrade and the Infinite Overtime update \u2013 which offers a never-ending checklist of randomly generated tasks \u2013 makes clocking-in for a second shift a lot more palatable, but there\u2019s nothing new to see in this version if you\u2019ve done it all before.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you\u2019re new to PSVR2, then this is pretty much essential: it\u2019s not only an easy-going introduction into the world of virtual reality, but it\u2019s also a hilarious game that executes on its ideas flawlessly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n