Whereas tanks in a modern simulator seem all but unstoppable, their power in Battlefield 1 is balanced by their sluggish movement and unreliable engines.

After flying one of those innocent birds through a sky streaked with tracer fire in the game’s single-player campaign, players might even think twice before shooting down an opponent’s messenger in the War Pigeons multiplayer mode.

For example, whereas modern warfare allows for immediate, impersonal drone strikes, Battlefield 1’s artillery has to be signaled by carrier pigeon.

The comparative lack of military technology hasn’t reduced the tactics available to players it’s merely made them more desperately intimate.

Whether it’s 1942 or 2142, EA DICE never forgets that war is, first and foremost, a form of hell, and it’s the narrative focus of a story, rather than its physical location, that provides meaningful context.ĭie-hard fans of the series can rest easy knowing that the developer’s formula not only survives the transition to the Great War, but flourishes there. The umpteenth entry in the Battlefield series, but the first to be set in World War I, Battlefield 1 proves that the setting of a first-person war game ultimately means very little.

Battlefield 1 multiplayer review