Along with practice time commanding vehicles and heavy artillery, it provides an opportunity to learn melee combat, as well as how to survive against high concentrations of enemy forces. Now Playing: Battlefield 1 - Video Review The beauty of nature in the background, instruments of death in the foreground.īeyond these heartfelt tales of brotherhood and solemn reflection, War Stories gracefully complements the multiplayer scenarios as a glorified yet effective training mode. His tale is an effective contrast to the somber post-war account of Luca Vincenzo Cocchiola, an armored Italian soldier tasked with protecting his twin brother from everything from bombers, shock troopers, flamethrowers, and more.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's This gambler and swindler leaves the events of his alleged adventure open to interpretation. The exploits of the mostly unlikeable Clyde Blackburn, for example, represent the stories that get mixed up in the chaos of war. And each tale is presented with distinct narrative flavor. You are exposed to a variety of perspectives from the characters you play, each with their own motivations, from altruistic to self-serving. These new tales are organized in a non-linear anthology format that doesn’t need to be played in any particular order. It’s a more focused experience compared to prior Battlefield story modes of globetrotting and one-note powderkeg narratives. The horrors and heroism of The Great War are well told in War Stories, Battlefield 1’s campaign. Combined with an enthralling multiplayer component, the overall result is the studio’s best work since Battlefield: Bad Company 2. EA DICE splendidly interprets the early 20th century as a world in technological transition while humanizing the war's participants through well crafted, albeit fictional, narrative vignettes. It’s ruination on a multi-continental scale, a conflict so large that its location menus showcase a large portion of the Earth. A burning man’s screams can be heard at the start of every multiplayer match in the Argonne Forest. The inevitability of death is the focus of the bleak story prologue. Battlefield 1 wastes little time in conveying the savagery of World War 1.

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