You’re given a variety of guns, from handguns to machine guns to rifles. In terms of gunplay, which is a major part of what you’ll do, it’s fun and well-executed. Luckily, the action, when it does resume, is worth the wait. There is an option to skip cut-scenes using both Touch triggers, but that would leave you completely confused as to what is going on. It seems at times like just when you’re really getting into killing Nazis, you’re forced to stop and wait a while until you can play again.

It sometimes leans a bit too heavily on long cut scenes, though, with short combat sequences sandwiched by overly-long scripted parts where you’re reduced to a (strangely short-statured) mute observer. The writing is solid, even a bit cheeky at times, despite some wooden voice acting. It’s a really well-done Campaign and surprisingly lengthy for a VR title. But don’t worry, you still get to shoot plenty of Nazis in the face, too (cue rousing patriotic music). The Campaign has a nice variety of missions that have you doing some really cool things like apprehending key targets, obtaining needed intelligence, even some heart-stopping action sequences like motorcycle chase scenes and daring rescues - there are so many fantastic moments in Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond that, like the excellent Blood & Truth, it’s not so much a war game as an action flick that you play in first person. In the Campaign, you play as a new recruit to the OSS (forerunner of the CIA) who joins a band of French Resistance fighters working to undermine the Germans in post-D-Day France. Once you do that and wait an hour or so for this behemoth to download, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond offers both a full single-player Campaign and PvP Multiplayer modes. If you’re looking to buy Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond and you’ve got the 64GB Oculus Quest 2, be ready to delete almost your entire game library to make room for it.

But first, it must be pointed out that this title is a monster in terms of file size - it weighs in at over 45GB in all, making it a good ten times larger than most titles currently on your headset. We’ll get to the game’s action in a moment, including the Campaign and multiplayer. But the relatively-new virtual reality game platform has thus far been largely overlooked until now - Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond finally brings the fight to Oculus Quest 2 headsets. World War 2 and video games have gone hand in hand almost as long as Grandpa’s been regaling us with his war stories every Thanksgiving (which, for the record, we never get tired of hearing).

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