![]() ![]() (I used the built-in Oculus Rift headphones.) Even the ping of a spent M1 Garand clip is hard to hear. For how much I had to think about reloading, it's not very satisfying. The magazines don't snap to their slots in the satisfying way they do in Half-Life: Alyx, though. It's fun in moments, but most of the challenge is remembering to stock up on ammo and reloading as speedily as possible-I was almost always thinking about ammo. There wasn't much time to awkwardly aim down the sights of my M1 Garands or Gewehr 43s, then, so I shot from the hip and relied on tracer bullets and generous hitboxes to clear out enemies as fast as I could, skating around with the analog stick on my left Oculus Touch controller. Sometimes I'd pop out of cover and almost instantly everything would go echoey and red to warn me I was taking too much fire-some of the Nazis are absolute lasers with their rifles. (Amusingly, though, you can come unstuck and have an out-of-body experience, turning around to see your own headless torso.)Ībove and Beyond isn't always more enjoyable when the shooting starts. Sometimes it even glues you in place so that all you can do is stand and listen. In those moments, it feels like I'm being punished by the teacher for not paying attention during class. When it's being cruel, Above and Beyond makes you restart a scene because you 'blew your cover' by messing around and shooting at the floor. Admittedly, that means I'm judging with an incomplete experience of the dialogue, because a lot of it went like: "There are things that I'm willing to sacrifice myself for." I got the gist, though, and it's all the usual boring suspects: clean-cut American good guys, a plucky British teenager, some French resistance fighters. I threw props around, and if it let me, plunked holes into my surroundings with my pistols and rifles and submachine guns. When it's being merciful, Above and Beyond at least lets you goof off during its weirdly-paced dialogue scenes (lots of long pauses). You can come unstuck and have an out-of-body experience, turning around to see your own headless torso.
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