Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond Announced for Oculus Rift - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 October 2019 / 2,036 Views
Publisher Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment have announced Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond for Oculus Rift. It will launch in 2020.
View the announcement trailer of the game below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is an action-packed and incredibly immersive virtual reality experience set in World War II, where you step into the boots of an agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in war torn Europe. A deep single-player campaign takes you through historic events on land, air, and sea, sabotaging Nazi bases, subverting enemy plans, aiding the French Resistance, and much, much more. With the Oculus Rift, we’re bringing players into the Medal of Honor series in an entirely new way, with an experience that transports you back to Europe in the 1940s. It’s the closest thing to a time machine you’ll ever see.
Medal of Honor has always been about celebrating the everyday people who did extraordinary things in the face of overwhelming odds, and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond continues that tradition in new and unique ways. Using interviews and 360-degree footage, we’ve had the privilege of capturing powerful first-hand stories from combat veterans of the war, using state-of-the-art technology to preserve their stories for future generations.
It’s an incredible feeling for us to be back working with this series again, telling unforgettable stories of the men and women who stood up and fought against evil. We can’t wait to share more with you over the next few months.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Man, EA is putting a lot of trust in Respawn Entertainment. Creating Apex with no EA involvement, taking on the Star Wars franchise, and now, revitalizing a thought dead franchise in Medal of Honor?! Granted, it's a VR game, but hopefully it will lead to a new proper installment in the series. Good on Respawn though to be killing it!
To be fair, woth each of those franchises, what did EA have to lose? Not trying to say Respawn are bad, far from it, but it probably made it an easier sell. Apex comes from a genre much maligned for its lootboxes. Star Wars games are still recovering from the tarnish Battlefront II did to the brand and the last Medal of Honor was a total dud.
Respawn can really only make things better.
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