"Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond story trailer headed for Gamescom stream". ^ "Everything we know about Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond"."Medal Of Honor: Above & Beyond Nabs Oscar Nomination In Historic First ". ^ " "An Unreal process has crashed: UE4-Mohab "".Subsequently, Colette was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards, the first film produced by a video-game studio to receive an Oscar nomination, and it would later win the award. It won the award for Best Short at the Big Sky Festival, making it eligible for submission to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for awards consideration. Of the Gallery shorts, Colette garnered particular recognition for its cinematic value. Her visit is inspired by a young history student who enters her life and convinces her to visit the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp where her brother died at the hands of the Nazis. The film follows former French Resistance member Colette Marin-Catherine as she travels to Germany for the first time in 74 years. Colette Ĭolette is a 24-minute short documentary directed by Anthony Giacchino and produced by Alice Doyard as an installment in the Gallery series.
Vignettes of the Gallery, which includes more than 90 minutes of footage, premiered at short film festivals such as the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2020. While filming the documentaries for the Gallery mode, Respawn partnered with Honor Flight to bring the veterans interviewed to the locations of many historic events they experienced and interviewed them there. Gallery Īs players progress in the game, they gain access to the Gallery, a collection of short documentaries featuring veterans of the World War II. The game was built using the Unreal Engine. Oculus added that it was one of the most expensive productions ever released for VR platforms. It was released for the Oculus Rift and Steam VR on December 11, 2020. Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond was not initially planned to be a VR game, but the developers pivoted to Oculus Rift after meeting and discussing the game with Facebook executives. The core team of the studio previously worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Respawn Entertainment served as the game's developer. The game also features multiplayer modes. The game takes place in Europe during World War II, taking the franchise back to its roots, with the main protagonist being an OSS agent and fighter in the French Resistance.