Saturday, 22 October 2016

Battlefield 1.... Campaign reviews are in....

I decided not to get the game in the end, if I was I'd have gone for the option with all the bells and whistles including the season pass. That was too expensive.

There does seem to be a lot of variation in the reviews coming through on the game's single player campaign. No surprise really. This variation is best shown in two video's that were put our during the week.

The first I'd mention is TotalBiscuit's review (WTF Is... - Battlefield 1 Single Player Campaign ?) is very unforgivably analytical in my opinion. More analytical than I thought would be needed, single player campaigns for games like this (BF/COD) are always short and usually only played once if at all.

The second is Good Game Pocket's coverage (NichBoy Plays: Battlefield 1). That video does show a first play reactionary playthrough. With less time to form a longer opinion of the overall game's SP mode it does show the average reaction (I like the COD comment).

For all the talk one way or another I'd favour the Good Game first play review because it's what people in general would think, feel and consider of the game. I've played battlefield games in the past and always 99% of the time has been the multiplayer player. That this game has a single player mode is great and a better single player mode than others never mind the likes of Star Wars Battlefront which had none.

Is it perfect no. Is it worth a playthrough yes I think so. Would I be over analysing it as in the first video, no, like I said the single player campaign is short and would be played once before moving on to the MP. So I'm only going to experience it once and then be off.

I've no plans to get the game at the moment. If I do it will be the base game during a sale.

I mentioned in a post a while ago my experience is that the longer a BF game is out the fewer players there are.  This is especially true if you opted to buy the extra content/expansions. BF4 today shows me no players for any content beyond the standard MP maps.

The multiplayer is the driving force of this game's abilities and it does look fun.


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