While you’ll only spend just over an hour with each, DICE have managed to make them all feel full of character. Among your roles are a young British chauffeur-turned-tank driver, a cocky American pilot, and a tough woman fighting alongside Laurence of Arabia’s rebels. They’re presented rather well: each is the recounted tale of a First World War soldier, all from a different front and year of the conflict. The campaign is split into six chapters, or ‘war stories’. Alas, despite the promise, once again DICE have produced another middling single-player game peppered with the odd brilliant moment. With its new historical setting though, Battlefield 1 is well-positioned to offer a grand, epic campaign across numerous fronts and scratch that 20th century itch that we’ve had since Call of Duty left the 1940s behind. While Bad Company 2 was solid and Battlefield 4 had its moments, these campaigns are quickly forgotten in favour of the war stories players create on their own. The Battlefield series is celebrated for its grand-scale multiplayer, but significantly less so for its single-player.
So is Battlefield 1 DICE’s finest hour? Battlefield 1 PC single-player campaign review
