VR Report: I Expect You To Die

I'll start with the first game I downloaded and played during Sony's VR sale last week: “I Expect You to Die.” This game takes place in a first-person setting where you and your floating hands begin, sitting at a desk in a 1960-70's era briefing room. You're a spy, and you must load some projector film to learn about your mission, where you are told that you will probably die while trying to complete the mission. The game feels like a fusion between the early James Bond films and Get Smart, with sticks of dynamite wired to a timer, champagne and cigars, and laser defenses that can cut you in half. You must manipulate objects around you to solve the puzzle/situation that you are in. For instance, your first mission begins with you seated inside a car that is inside a cargo plane. Your mission is to get the car out of the plane, mid-flight, and hope that the car's parachute system will deploy. As you look around the car, you'll find clues. You need to try different objects out and manipulate them with your hands to make progress: find the ignition key to turn on the car and once the car is on, roll down the window to grab a screwdriver outside, which you can use to unscrew a panel on the car and find a compartment with a knife, which you'll need to cut the wires of the bomb that you discover in the glove-box! This is just an example of the kinds of things you'll be doing, but it's a ton of fun and yes...you will die as you try different things through trial-and-error. One added bonus is that between missions, you accumulate some of the items you've found during missions, so you can play with them without consequence in the briefing room. I enjoyed putting dynamite by a row of books, blowing it up from a distance with my gun, and then tossing a lit lighter at a plant to turn the briefing room into a blazing inferno, all while having a glass a champagne, which I shattered against a wall after drinking. For $10, this game is definitely worth it, but from what I've seen with the trophies, there only seems to be 4 missions total? Hopefully there will be expansions later.