Desperate to fight for his country, Deme Clesse and his unit of Tirailleurs storm their way across rural France, unshackling the Nazi war machine from the inside after the success of Operation Overlord just weeks earlier. In the third of the launch day War Stories, Tirailleu r casts players as an Senegalese soldier who reminisces upon his time serving in the infantry tasked with undertaking Operation Dragoon in occupied France during 1944.
Though thunderous in both execution and aesthetic (Nordlys stands as a stirring showcase of the visual craft that DICE has mastered in Battlefield V), it’s difficult to escape the fact that though very different in terms of setting to previous WWII single-player campaigns, the actual missions all play very similarly to what we’ve already experienced before. The most intense and substantial story of the three campaign offerings, Nordlys encompasses an eye-opening ski-bound decent into a frozen fjord before switching gears into a Goldeneye style infiltration of a engineering facility and beyond. In the second War Story, Nordlys, players take the role of a Norwegian rebel, who, along with her similarly insurgent mother must undermine the Nazi’s ability to produce the hard water needed to power their ambitions for atomic weaponry. Battlefield V confidently stakes a claim for itself as perhaps the best looking FPS on the market. Frantic then, though hardly quite as thrilling as it should be. Greeted with a massive play area, players must direct Bridger to sabotage enemy airbases, while engaging in pitched battles with Nazi forces that occasionally require you to shoot the odd plane out of the air. Tasked with an incursion into North Africa to destroy Nazi infrastructure, Under No Flag is tonally the lightest of the three War Stories, with the frequent bouts of dry comedy and cockney swears being amusing, but yet also clashing somewhat with the po-faced mood that the other War Stories go to great lengths to establish.īeyond its comical cockney bluster, Under No Flag is mechanically the most workmanlike of three single-player campaigns, gameplay-wise. Starting with ‘Under No Flag’, players are thrust into the role of cockney career criminal Billy Bridger who, fresh from a stint in a prison, is recruited into a special tactical unit that would eventually be known as the British SBS (Special Boat Squad).
Instead, War Stories portrays three lesser known World War II conflicts. Though they each boast the typical EA glitz, Battlefield V’s War Stories avoid depicting the usual engagements, and instead weave tales around some of the lesser known conflicts of WWII.
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