If you hit them in the chest there is a 50/50 chance it will be enough. If you hit the enemy anywhere below the waist you have revealed your position and they will not die. Battlefield games let you play as a proper Sniper. While there is scope for this in Battlefield as well, there is a completely more organic feeling to the maps. COD is a slick no-nonsense shooter where it comes down to who can pull the trigger quickest. The real difference between COD and Battlefield games are the feel. Each type of match is a brutal unforgiving war that can suffer momentum changes and pivotal moments at multiple points. On this count, the game delivers on all fronts. In real terms, despite the welcome focus on single-player the real meat of any Battlefield game is the Multiplayer. Suddenly, because of the tone set by the game, this becomes an entirely plausible and emotional battle despite being akin to the scene from a mid 80вЂ™s Arnold Schwarzenegger epic. Here you have a simple soldier who has covered himself in armor and is walking along the battlefields of World War One like The Terminator. Immediately you forget the ridiculousness of the situation. Your only motivation in this set of levels is to support the advance of your brother. The ItalianВ in an armor suit levels, in particular, are harrowing. The game hammers this point home despite the imaginative and excellent gameplay. You kill, you have a good competitive game but in the end, you realize war isnвЂ™t fun. Battlefield hits the spot where the old CODвЂ™s and Medal Of HonourвЂ™s reside. There are no hoorahвЂ™s that you find in COD here. Despite having the enemy carry out the usual wrong doings in these levels that feeling from the first never leaves you and no matter how heroic your actions are the feeling at the end is quite flat. It wasnвЂ™t called the вЂgreat warвЂ™ for nothing. In all an eclecticВ group that shows how diversely spread this War was. One as an Italian armor plated soldier, one as a naval soldier and the final coup de gras as one of the soldiers who helped Lawrence of Arabia. You play one set in a tank, another in a plane. Bringing you up to the new standard campaign length of 5-6 hours. The single-player or вЂWar StoriesвЂ™ are five short scenarios that last around an hour or so each. The feeling subsides but never leaves you. Soon the feeling subsides and you carry on with the game and reach the first one of these вЂWar StoriesвЂ™ proper. You question why you are aiming down the iron sights and mowing down countless enemies. It is something that should be carried on as standard in these historical shooters and generates a feeling similar to the classic вЂNo RussianвЂ™ level in Modern Warfare 2. You die, nobody remembers and the game moves on to the next soldier. No matter if your character does well and kills the enemy or you miss your shot and get killed by a flamethrower the result is the same. This simple yet chilling example of how expendable human life was during World War One sticks with you as a player throughout the entire game.

Instead of respawning, the game cleverly shows your birth year and then the death year as the screen fades to black only for you to be transported into the body of another soldier at a different point on the map. Think the ending of Halo Reach and you are about right. Despite your best efforts, you eventually run out of bullets and die. Starting as one of a group of soldiers from Harlem, you face the impossible task of defending a point from a horde of enemy troops. Perhaps due to the stinging criticism of Star Wars Battlefront and the lack of a decent single player element, EA has included a reasonably robust few hours of AI blasting. A game that takes the romantic elements of World War One and layers them in the necessary realistic grit to make the game a poignant reminder that war is not a good thing in any shape or form.ДЄs seems to be the trend with these shooters the single player campaign has received a decent amount of detail.

In our second review of the big four shooters this fall, we take a look at Battlefield One.

Battlefield 1 campaign length