Battlefield 1 will give you a feel of WWI. It’s so good, that even when it fails in accuracy, it wins in innovation
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Battle field 1 is based on the first World War. That said, it does little to hide the horrors of the war. The very first storyline is about a chauffeur who becomes a war hero. It has many bleak moments where you get to connect with the situation of World War I and this happens through a couple of well laid out short stories. In fact, the first story, though good is the most boring of the lot. The game gets progressively better. The cut scenes in the single player story mode are short and there is major focus on the grand scale of the maps and everything you can do in them.
This is great because there is a lot you can do in Battlefield 1 and not everything is as it is in the last few games from DICE, the developer. The weapons, being ancient, are not as effective as their modern counterparts. The infantry units can’t destroy tanks with rocket launchers because there are none. To make matters tougher, tanks and planes can be repaired from the inside by the driver. The weapons also feel heavier and are inaccurate. Though this sounds like a negative point, DICE has somehow turned it into a positive. The game, especially in multiplayer, is just beautiful. It is harder, but there is a chance of landing a shot even with the most experienced players, capturing the uncertainty of a real war situation.
We loved the flying around mode — the scale of battle in the skies is just brilliant. Dog-fighting is much more fun when the planes are going slow. You really have to aim and shoot instead of lock and fire. Planes are accurately depicted and even in the single player story mode the grand scale of battle is just breathtaking. A close second is the horse-riding mode, it does make you an easy target, but the fun of slashing an enemy down while riding a horse makes me feel like I am in Game of Thrones.
Though this is a sort of simulation, there are some things that are hilariously inaccurate but entertaining. The funniest is the War Pigeon mode — a pigeon in the map that your team needs to capture, keep it still long enough to write a message and then release it while hoping that no one shoots it down. Do this three times and you win.
The inaccuracy here is that the enemy and you technically would have different pigeons because, well, they need to be trained to go to the location they are heading to. Release the pigeon and an artillery strike rains down.
That said, it is still a fun new way to play the game, and is really an ingenious adaptation of the old-school limitation to create a modern FPS shooter. This is evident through the entire game and is the reason Battlefield 1 is a lot more fun than it should have been, considering the equipment, scenario and everything else has stayed accurate to the source material.
Battlefield 1 is a lot of fun, it has a great single player mode split up in to multiple stories and an even better multiplayer mode, that brings some oomph to what could have easily been a run-of-the-mill WWI shooter. It is definitely a game you would want to have in your collection if you enjoy first person shooters. It is a bit expensive though.
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