![]() In one campaign, you learn the basic of flight by zipping above snow-covered mountains. While extended sequences involving endless killing and cheesy heroics are common, but the best mini-campaigns use vehicles and distance to add variety to missions that would otherwise be one murder after the other. The changes have added some depth to a generally tired genre. ![]() ![]() The campaign flaunts a self-awareness that’s hitherto been absent, and with this newfound confidence it achieves an excellence largely absent from recent entries, and the first-person shooter genre as a whole. Battlefield 1 is an unexpected about-face. Battlefield 4’s campaign was a serviceable clone, but it wasn’t itself. It’s not that Battlefield campaigns were especially bad, rather they failed to consistently exploit the skills of the creators. Other than a couple standout pieces that that underscore the franchise’s sense of scale, the bulk of the adventure follows a generic hero as he guns through hordes of enemies and tired action movie tropes, only to be interrupted by halfhearted cutscenes, insipid twists, and hawkish military lingo. By 2013’s Battlefield 4, the franchise’s campaign was barely distinguishable from CoD. ![]() To be like Call of Duty, Battlefield’s creator had to play against its strengths they did so willingly, for years. Where Battlefield encouraged experimentation and destruction, Call of Duty locked players into cinematic scripted set pieces and static corridors. Where Battlefield was large and open, Call of Duty was compact and claustrophobic. For too long, ‘Battlefield’ aped ‘Call of Duty’ But for single-player, each new Battlefield - and EA’s marketing division - seemed evermore infatuated with the design of the massively successful Call of Duty games, despite the series being Battlefield’s aesthetic opposite. They established and nurtured a team with a specialized talent for creating huge, destructible maps for players to explore in top-of-class multiplayer modes. Battlefield’s publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE have themselves to blame. While more creatively ambitious, more technically impressive, and all around prettier than the Call of Duty series, the Battlefield video games have been its competitor’s perpetual runner-up. ![]() Imagine living in someone’s shadow for a decade, and you’ll get the gist of the Battlefield brand as of late. Battlefield 1’s campaign is nothing like its recent predecessors. ![]()
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