It wasn’t called the ‘great war’ for nothing. In all an eclectic group that shows how diversely spread this War was. One as an Italian armor plated soldier, one as a naval soldier and the final coup de gras as one of the soldiers who helped Lawrence of Arabia. You play one set in a tank, another in a plane. Bringing you up to the new standard campaign length of 5-6 hours.

The single-player or ‘War Stories’ are five short scenarios that last around an hour or so each. The feeling subsides but never leaves you.

Soon the feeling subsides and you carry on with the game and reach the first one of these ‘War Stories’ proper.

You question why you are aiming down the iron sights and mowing down countless enemies. It is something that should be carried on as standard in these historical shooters and generates a feeling similar to the classic ‘No Russian’ level in Modern Warfare 2. You die, nobody remembers and the game moves on to the next soldier. No matter if your character does well and kills the enemy or you miss your shot and get killed by a flamethrower the result is the same. This simple yet chilling example of how expendable human life was during World War One sticks with you as a player throughout the entire game. Instead of respawning, the game cleverly shows your birth year and then the death year as the screen fades to black only for you to be transported into the body of another soldier at a different point on the map. Think the ending of Halo Reach and you are about right. Despite your best efforts, you eventually run out of bullets and die. Starting as one of a group of soldiers from Harlem, you face the impossible task of defending a point from a horde of enemy troops. Perhaps due to the stinging criticism of Star Wars Battlefront and the lack of a decent single player element, EA has included a reasonably robust few hours of AI blasting. A game that takes the romantic elements of World War One and layers them in the necessary realistic grit to make the game a poignant reminder that war is not a good thing in any shape or form.Īs seems to be the trend with these shooters the single player campaign has received a decent amount of detail. In our second review of the big four shooters this fall, we take a look at Battlefield One.

Battlefield 1 campaign length