Golly gosh, gee golly it's been a long time since I had actually completed a game, this feels strange. The autumn over-expenditure has yielded some great experiences and some that I haven't even played yet. Battlefield 1 was highly acclaimed and I conned people into to buying it, or so I am told. It was bought with Titanfall 2 another game that will be a hold over until time is freed to play.
Battlefield 1 is a new is old war concept. World War 1. World War 1 is such a strange idea for a shooter and yet, it works. Guns, attachments, grenades, and tanks! These make for a great Battlefield game from the past and it works for a war of the past. Period weapons and strategies, make for a interesting single and multi player experience.
Graphically this is beautiful as most games this generation, times have changed from the last. They developers do justice to the horrors of the trench warfare of WW1. Explosions and burning structures are amazing. I am reminded of a multi play match where an airship was taken down right above and I couldn't pull my self away from the beautiful destruction falling from the sky to crash land, on me.
The Single player is split among multiple theaters of the allied European conquest, England, Italy, France, Gallipoli and the Arabian peninsula, each with it's own niche battle form. Planes, juggernaut suit of armor infantry, tanks, a runner and as a Bedouin warrior in the desert, respectively. These really remind me of older COD titles with a closer attention to the history of the battles taking place. DICE really made me appreciate the message of the story as it was a history lesson and the consequences of war. Call of Duty used to feel this way at one time, right up until World at War.
The older COD titles would jump around and you would see the story unfold in a Tarantino fashion, Battlefield is broken into smaller linear story chunks within the entire campaign. You go to France, play the whole story within, the move to another region. It's like playing five smaller single player campaigns with missions within themselves. Quick, concise and complete, with much of the story explained though cut scenes. The tank campaign reminded me too much of Fury, the Brad Pitt tank movie from few years back, but it held it's own and was enjoyable. Stealth was a surprising big part of many of these missions and campaigns, with the mechanics working well.
The Multi player is a monster unto many things that the SWS, doesn't play. You run out the open, pop, you dead. The maps are huge in operations, the only mode we have played thus far. There is tanks, and field guns and planes and trains and airships and death at every turn. The change of pace is what makes this so much fun, I guess. The team is battling towards a singular goal, but on multiple fronts. It's not just murder, death, kill of COD. That still has it's place, but Battlefield challenges you to go out and complete the battle. I look forward to playing more of the other modes that Battlefield has to offer.
The game play is the typical shooter, this ain't COD, but the same feel. The weapons really change the way you approach situations as they are not the usual two to three kill machines. Multi player has classes with their own strengths and weaknesses, weapons and gadgets. SMG, rifles, LMG depending on which class you choose and tailor to your play style.
Overall the new Battlefield is a fun experience. The single player was a amazing change of pace from the shooty shoot shoot of COD. Tanks and planes gave the story a wider range of appeal and I miss the tanks from World at War.
While I haven't played enough of the multi player to give a strong review of it and the guns being under powered and I have lost most the fire fights I have been in.
I have enjoyed the single player and it would get a GOOD INU!
SWS out.
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