In one stealth section, I was supposed to stealthily take out gun placements and a radio tower before firing a signal flare to start a charge. Players can creep, crawl, and toss spent ammo to draw the attention of Nazis, but there’s really no need to go through this song and dance when you can blast your way through any obstacle with ease. There’s also points where the game recommends a stealthy approach, but these sections feel tacked on and haphazardly done. That’s fine, but it’s the exact same thing I’ve done in every previous Battlefield single player campaign, and Battlefield V is the sixteenth entry in the franchise. Playing through the Tirailleurs’ campaign forces the player to rush through a series of set pieces that are just wide enough to dodge the accusation of being called corridors. Battlefield V doesn't ask players to storm the beaches of Normandy or hold the line in Stalingrad, but it plays either the same or worse than the WWII shooters that came out more than a decade ago. It's an admirable goal, but the problem is that the settings is the only thing that's changed. Rather than focusing on expected battles and nations of WWII, namely the American and Russian fronts, it sought to tell stories that video games have to tell about the war. Read More: ‘Battlefield 1’ Is a Fun, Serious War Game, But Can’t Have It Both WaysĭICE, to its credit, attempted a novel solution to this problem. As I wrote last year when Activision tried to bring Call of Duty back to WWII, there are only so many ways to storm the beaches of Normandy. The First Battlefield game, set in WII, released in 2002. The first Medal of Honor, which created the sub-genre as we know it, came out in 1999. The problem with making a WWII first person shooter in 2018 is that game developers have been making those games for about 20 years. In December, DICE will release a fourth story-the Last Tiger-which follows a Nazi tank crew in the final days of the war. Each self-contained story is a couple of hours long and focuses on a different part of the war, Nordlys is a personal story of family survival set in Norway, Under No Flag is a Guy Ritchie style romp with a British criminal, and Tirailleurs tells the story of French colonial forces liberating a homeland they’ve never seen. Battlefield V's single player missions are organized in an anthology format called War Stories.
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