They’re shooters, and you’re primarily Rambo-ing your way through entire enemy units. I admire the effort, trying not to rely on the old touchstones, but at the end Battlefield V has the same glossy view of war and heroism as any of its more generic peers. The resulting campaigns aren’t bad, but they miss out on the very complexity DICE wanted to court by striking away from D-Day and other events that loom large in our World War II mindset. But they’re far too rare for the player to form any real connection to the characters, even compared to the work DICE did in Battlefield 1. These moments are great, these glimpses at a personality. While beating back an overwhelming tide of Nazis, your character and his mentor start singing an old fight song to keep their spirits up. Under No Flag’s standout moment, for instance, comes late in the story. They’re heroes, and that comes (in the video game world at least) with this reverent, do-no-wrong tone that strips them of identity.Īs if realizing this issue, DICE endeavors to give its leads a few humanizing moments. Battlefield V’s soldiers might look different from the Band of Brothers knockoffs in Call of Duty: WWII, and yet under the surface little differentiates them. The same themes permeate all three of Battlefield V’s War Stories, and indeed much of our pop culture understanding of World War II. Even Tirailleurs, the most action-packed of the three campaigns, has segments where stealth is if not mandatory at least heavily encouraged. Nordlys? Three very long stealth missions. Under No Flag? You’re behind enemy lines, meaning lots of stealth missions.
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Perhaps we praised those stealth missions a bit too much though, because Battlefield V is full of them.
It was a major shakeup for action-centric Battlefield. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, where you were forced to use guerrilla stealth tactics. Each campaign had a unique feel to it, culminating in the story of T.E. First you play a tank driver, then you’re an ace pilot, then you’re fighting atop a flaming zeppelin, then crawling through muddy trenches. Battlefield 1’s War Stories did an excellent job bouncing between the series’s strengths. Battlefield V doesn’t reach the same heights, for a number of reasons.įirst and foremost, it’s tedious to play. Battlefield V steers clear of the genre’s ever-present Band of Brothers influences, and is better for it.īut Battlefield 1 scored a Game of the Year prize from us in 2016, largely off the strength of War Stories. I complained last year that Call of Duty: WWII felt like a Greatest Hits collection of past World War II games. And on that point Battlefield V is an unmitigated success. DICE has said it wanted to focus on lesser-known stories in Battlefield V, staying away from D-Day, Market Garden, the Bulge, and other well-trod battles.
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