The partners announced the title two years ago at OC4. The Respawn team liked that idea so much that they decided to work on Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, a VR title. The team began the work, but it also got a pitch from Michael Doran, a producer at Oculus, about making a VR game. Many of Respawn’s people, like CEO Vince Zampella, had worked on the original Medal of Honor two decades earlier. Hirschmann said the project started nearly three years ago, when Respawn was still an independent company and was talking with partner Electronic Arts (which eventually bought the studio) about working on a Medal of Honor game.

But when you can see the faces of the enemy and the insignia of their uniforms, that’s where VR really pays off.” We certainly have moments of spectacle in the game. The adrenaline kicks in and you have to make some very serious decisions in the moment. “This is all about analog warfare,” he said. If you want to load your gun, you grab for a cartridge on your belt with your hand and then click it into place in the gun being held in the other hand. And you can look around a corner by moving your body and peeking around it. You can catch a grenade thrown by a Nazi soldier, but you do so by putting your hand in the air and clicking on a button on a motion controller.

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