If anyone popped up with a rifle at this exact moment, you'd either be shot in seconds or empty your stomach attempting to strafe-while-firing. 'If you sprinted like a super soldier from Call of Duty,В running through a battle field before jumpingВ behind cover, you'd be sick within 10 minutes.' Movement is odd, camera panning is different - even shuffling around a deserted lab is a touch confusing. 'As you're looking at things from a first person view, it's got to be like real life,' explainsВ OвЂ™Luanaigh. While the bleak, grainy corridors and overheard conversations of The AssemblyВ are reminiscent of the storytelling marvels of 1998's Half-Life, the VR medium isn't suitable for the fast-paced gun action and on-rushing aliens that drive the industry's major titles. Bring up your mobile as you search the lab for answers as to why you're stuck down here and it realise how clunky menus looked in old, flat-screen games.Д®xtra objects to pokeВ might sound like a gimmick -В but these immersive details add up. Open a cabinet in the mysterious underground bunker in which the game takes place and you literally 'look' inside it, leaning forward to examine the contents. 'There has to beВ more detail in the art work - you can look around at everything - under desks, in cupboards - so there has to be something there.'ДЄn adventure game at its core, The AssemblyВ has detail by the bucket-load. With new VR worlds slapped across your eyeballs via headsets like the Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus, developers have had to learn some new tricks. 'Virtual reality introduces a new subtly to the world of video games,' saysВ Patrick OвЂ™Luanaigh, CEO of nDreams, the group behind The Assembly. Bullets don't fly, there's no 'X to Sprint' command - and you're going to be glad of it. This is how The AssemblyВ will introduce many gamersВ toВ the new waveВ of virtual reality titles. What we were seeing suggested that we were actually strapped to a gurney, wheeled by unseen scientists through a remote desert location.

We knew our feet were placed firmly on theВ carpet of a conference room in theВ offices of UK Interactive Entertainment. This was the moment that our mind went into sensory melt down. 'So you can look around as you move through this section. And as David Cornish finds out, that's a veryВ good thing The Assembly is a VR game that can't compete with Halo and Call of Duty for action.

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