While a vast swath of the industry have embraced increasingly more futuristic settings, DICE, creators of Battlefield 1, has instead turned its attention to the past. The result is a shooter that’s just as brutal and relentless as the conflict that serves as its grim inspiration.
To that end, the trench warfare of World War One doesn’t just make for a brand new setting, but a prism through which its long-time Swedish developer has rediscovered all the elements that made its past works so well received.
There are the open-ended levels that defined Battlefield’s DNA in its earliest days on PC that give agency and creativity rather than funnelling you down a set-piece laden corridor and a greater sense of freedom that we haven’t that stems from the return of the destructible scenery first seen in the much-loved Bad Company games.
In the course of the game there are times you’ll need to blast through barbed wire barricades and cottage walls alike when manning a tank or have your chosen sniper nest reduced to rubble by enemy cannon. It’s a feature that forces you to treat cover less as a permanent lifeline and more like a dynamic tactic.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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