These normally boring mechanics actually become fun because of the intricacies of their design. I've played plenty of VR shooters where reloading feels like a chore, but I never once thought that while playing Medal of Honor Above and Beyond.

Each of these guns feels wholly unique from one another and each reloads just as different as it handles. It's not often you get to actually handle an M1 Garand or an StG 44, after all. Weapons all felt authentic and uniquely of the era, contributing to their intrigue throughout the 10-hour campaign. Knowing that these stories were based in reality certainly goes a long way to making the game feel authentic, even if it often doesn't come across like that in its execution. Some missions have you standing around a table, planning where each character will wait in ambush to take down a Nazi caravan, while others might have you derailing a train and seizing the contents within. Medal of Honor developers Respawn Entertainment really did a great job of bringing players across the unique theaters of WWII, from sandy beaches to smashed and tattered brick buildings, there's no shortage of interesting locations to visit in the game.Įven the missions themselves do a good job of changing up scenarios. WWII, being a massive war in every sense of the word, provides an incredible wealth of locations and stories to draw missions from. While Medal of Honor Above and Beyond has plenty of issues, it truly excels in one key area: variation.

Most levels feel more like a shooting gallery than what we've become accustomed to these days and, ultimately, make a $60 price tag difficult to justify.

Even after some major patches that fixed initial problems, the game just feels lacking. It too often relies on small, disjointed set-piece scenarios rather than offering up a larger narrative in which its characters and locations organically fit. Unfortunately, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, like the series' fame, feels stuck in the age of shooters from the early 2000s. Given that the team is made up of the industry-veteran minds that created both the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series, doesn't it make sense that they should be the ones to bring the first AAA-level VR World War II title to market? Its library of games spans from the much-lauded Titanfall series, one of the best multiplayer shooters ever, Apex Legends, and also one of the only actually incredible Star Wars games ever made, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order. Respawn Entertainment has a rather fantastic pedigree behind it.

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