If only Above And Beyond wasn’t holding your hand with map markers and highlighted objects every step of the way. The best bits arrive when the game asks you to do anything else, naturally, like prod piano keys to solve puzzles. Most of the time you’re just plonked into a shooting gallery and told to survive.
The environments are gigantic and often well-detailed, even if there’s no urgency to explore them. If you haven’t been spoiled by Alyx or Pavlov, or many of the other top-tier VR shooting games, I bet it’ll feel quite novel. Above And Beyond demands a whopping 177GB, so say goodbye to one of your SSDs. I’d prefer if I could cut them off and pick up the campaign on its own, if only to save on storage space. In Above And Beyond, they feel thrown in to justify the steep £59.99 price tag. In both cases, they’re executed far better in more focused VR games. Will you be loading boxes onto a truck or shooting down airplanes? Who knows, it’s a lottery! There’s multiplayer and a survival mode too, but they aren’t worth a look, honestly. The campaign is the main chunk of this predictable package, as you saunter between set piece after inconsistent set piece. If you dare to peek you just get riddled with holes, and there isn’t much cover on offer, so you kind of have to play in a very tiresome, aggressive fashion that doesn’t feel rewarding.
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The guns feel good to shoot within this silly World War II adventure, and the melee – you’ll crack Nazi skulls with statue busts – feels decent too.īut every time you get into a big firefight the conclusion is the same. It doesn’t have the intricacy of Pavlov VR but it’s decently refined, if not ultimately monotonous. Then came my hands – the combat is somewhat nifty. I was playing on an Oculus Quest 2, first via the link cable and then Virtual Desktop, which let me stream the game from my Nvidia 2080 rig in higher detail, at 90hz, wireless. It’s nothing special honestly, but the polished textures and animations at least let it play out in front of your eyes in gorgeous detail. Isn’t that such a crazy trait? What a quaint and original cast of characters… There’s even an unsuspecting old man who’s way into explosions. You’ve got your plucky, dorky, technically too young for the army sidekick, a gruff no-nonsense military man and a witty French spy. At that point, I felt it was time to really consider the narrative and its characters. You’ve got your guns during the cutscenes and you can shoot people’s hats off, and you hold grenades to your mouth to “pull the pin out with your teeth”.īecause of the above, I didn’t really take the game too seriously until it literally hurled a train car at my face during the climax of the first mission, which felt so real that it made me physically cower in fear. It’s a pretty safe ride and something most gamers will be familiar with – war played for laughs, with comic relief and quips aplenty. You play as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime precursor to the CIA, and you’ll spend most of your time shooting Nazis, foiling plots and getting into covert hi-jinks. Respawn Entertainment, try as they might, are trying to offer something similar to Alyx in scope and detail with Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond.Īfter eight years without a Medal Of Honor game, Above And Beyond takes the military shooter franchise back to its World War II campaign roots. Half-Life: Alyx certainly raised the bar for the entire medium earlier this year, giving virtual reality its first killer app, and leading other developers to take a chance on VR. As virtual reality begins to enter its pre-teen phase, we’re finally getting games that feel like full-blown AAA experiences rather than repetitive – but very fun – prototype gimmicks.
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