Battlefield 1 [Review of the game]

War … war never changes. From the earliest time of mankind, we grab the guns in the hands of the guns and prove our opinion, worldview and law. So at the beginning of the 20th century, how a bright outbreak flared up the First World War. There were many reasons, but the main one was human greed. Subsequently, entire empires collapsed and new social and economic construction were created. But the end of the First World War was only a respite to the most terrible war of the past century – the Second World War.

One of the symbols of the First World War can be considered the British tank Mark V is a huge deadly machine that participated in many battles in the fields not only the First World War, but also during the Civil War of 1918-1920 in Russia.

Finally came out Battlefield One – Continuation of the game line from DICE studio and Electronic Arts about all kinds of wars on the fields. The series has already touched on the Second World War (Battlefield 1942), the war in Vietnam of the 60-70s of the 20th century (Battlefield Vietnam), modern military operations (Battlefield 2) and even the war in the future (Battlefield 2142). And now the developers decided to touch on another time period, which was not so often mentioned in video games.

Battlefield has always been more a multi -user game. In the first parts there was no full -fledged single -user regime. There was only a game with bots on multiplab maps. But after the exit Battlefield Bad Company A full -fledged single company with the plot and characters appeared in the game. IN Battlefield One It also is and consists of 5 chapters in which we have to look at the events of the First World War from different angles. In one, we are the Mark V tank furwater and, together with its crew, must break through the battlefield, in the other we play for the adventurer who, through the fraud, enters one of the airplanes and participates in air battles. Each story in these chapters takes a small amount of time, but each is served very cinematic and causes some feelings for the final of the narrative. The gameplay in the chapters of a single company affects all the main features of the game than the player actually prepares for the multiplayer, simultaneously telling interesting stories. The most important thing to the company is that it conveys the same spirit of war. Even in the prologue, we find ourselves immediately in the heat of a large -scale battle, where our hero is killed and we see his name and years of life on the screen. Then we immediately transfer to another character and continue the battle for him. And this happens several times until an artillery salvo is directed on the field, which will sweep away everything around. At such moments, you begin to understand all the horrors of war and that tin that happened on the battlefield. It is a pity, but the episodes turned out to be very small, but on the other hand you can spend time in the break between network battles.

But as always the main incentive to play in Battlefield There was a multiplayer. And here he is really good. In fact, it has not changed too much in comparison with the previous parts, but it is felt in a completely different way. Visually, he is now more like the very first part of the series, namely Battlefield 1942, which was dedicated to the Second World War, and the time between the events of the first and Second World War was 20 years old, so it is clear why such a feeling is formed.

Battlefield 1942 (2002.)

Do not wait for a bunch of equipment or a cloud of customs for your weapon. There are tanks, airplanes, armored vehicles and transport for infantry from technology here.
But there are several types of tanks and aircraft. From the aircraft there are bombers and fighters here, and tanks are divided into light, medium and heavy.
There are also horses among transport. They are controlled conveniently and perfectly replace motorcycles from Battlefield 4. They can perfectly overcome long distances and wield a checker and hard drive. By the way, a special class of a character was invented for them – cavalrymen.
Total classes 8. 4 classes of infantry and 4 special. In the infantry, we have attack aircraft that are armed with near -acting firearms. These are shotgun and pp. As well as by means of destroying technology and undermining something. Next are doctors. They are armed with medium -range weapons. These are mainly all kinds of rifles. Of the funds, they have everything you need to help your fighters in difficult times of the battle. They will be able to cure your soldiers and practically return them from the other world. Support fighters now not only help to ensure the ammunition of your fighters and cover everyone with their heavy machine guns (in this game are average for damage), but also took the repair function from the engineer from past parts. And scouts, respectively, perfectly scout the battlefield and fire from sniper rifles.

For the first time in history, pilots have significantly changed the fighting strategy on the battlefield. The first military aces appeared – masters of battles in the air, such as Manfred Albrecht Fryherr von Richtgofen, more known by the nickname Red Baron.

4 special classes are already the above cavalrymen if you choose a means of moving the horse, pilots at the starting point, if you choose the plane, tanker, if you choose a tank. Each of them has its own weapons and abilities. And you can get the last class on the battlefield. At a certain moment, containers appear on the map in which all things are for a given class. The developers called this class – elite, and it can significantly turn the course of events in good hands. In these boxes, the firing flare uniforms may lie, becoming which you can shoot with napalm to the right and left, burning everything around, or a sentry suit, in which you can mowed a lot of enemies with a powerful machine gun. And the last character from this class is a tan. He owns the gun “tanker” M1918 which can hit tanks and other equipment from a large distance.

As for the weapon, then forget about the huge number of nozzles, silencers, laser sights and.T.D. In weapons, we are free to change the type of sight, coloring and bayonet. There are essentially not so many types of weapons themselves, but each modification will please their variety. There are weapons options for different cases on the battlefield. For example, one modification of the rifle is equipped with a lens for better aiming and accuracy, but inferior to the same model, but another modification for rate of fire. As a result, you can use one type of weapon, but with different modifications depending on the current situation.

MP-18-German submachine gun-the ancestor of many machine guns. Its rate of fire was 450-500 shots per minute, in the game it was increased to 540.

The gas attack was invented precisely during the First World War and therefore in the game there is also a place for this cruel weapon. The fighters have gas grenades with which they can smoke enemies from the raised places or, on the contrary, prevent them from approaching the right position. Help to cope with gas – gas masks that all fighters have. But when the player puts on a gas mask, the ability to conduct targeted fire disappears and shoot from enemies only from the hip.
The ballistics of the weapon in the game are naturally significantly different from the one that real prototypes had. It is hardly simplified, but this is done naturally for the sake of gameplay.

The modes so far in the game 6, but there will be more of them with the release of DLC. There are those that have moved from past parts. This is the capture, superiority or fighting of teams. So new ones appeared, such as “military pigeons” in which two teams compete, sending the coordinates of the enemy positions of their artillery through the postal pigeons. With the beginning of the game on the map, there will be a dovecot with a postal pigeon. Your task is to find a dove before the enemy and take it to a safe open place. There you need to write a dispatch and release a dove with it. So you will request artillery support. After the successful sending of dispatches, the artillery will begin to shell the enemy. The second new mode is “Operation”. In the “Operation” mode, large -scale transitions from one card to another, based on real battles of the First World War are presented. This is the longest mode in time, since its action takes place on several maps. And the balance in all these modes can be traced. An interesting feature of the capture and operations is that either an armored train can come to the aid of a playing team or fly a whole airship. It is very difficult to destroy this colossus and she can cause great damage to the enemy. Therefore, playing even in a weak team you have a chance to at least not lose with such a miserable score, and maybe even tear out victory from the enemy. The weather can also change on the map. It was only the outdoor weather, and suddenly the whole card covered the fog, which significantly reduced the distance of visibility. Now aviation and snipers are not so effective. Speaking of cards. At the start of them 9. And each is connected with a certain event of the First World War. There is a beautiful Argon forest, or sandy expanses of the Sinai desert, or narrow streets and multi -storey buildings of the city of Amiens. All locations look beautiful due to design and beautiful graphics.

In 1918, a 17-day battle occurred in the Argon Forest between the German troops and troops of the Entente, called the Mooz-Argon offensive.

And graphic Battlefield One pleases with all the capabilities of the engine Frostbyte, which is now widely used in almost all new projects Electronic Arts. High resolution textures, clear lines of models and excellent effects do their job. Explosions and fire looks very impressive. Destruction compared to Battlefield 4 There are more. Now, after a half -hour battle on the battlefield, there are practically no touched buildings left. And most importantly, now after the explosions there are funnels and deformations of the Earth, which serve as a small shelter for infantry and a problem in moving technology. Dirt remains on weapons and the shape of the fighters. Traces of bullets and shells hit on technology. And from the aircraft the necessary elements fall off, which subsequently affect its movement in the air.

As a result, we get a solid next part Battlefield And one more good game about the First World War. We pass the single, play multiplayer and we are waiting for further DLCs, in which by the way, Russian and French armies and new types of equipment, weapons and new maps should be brought.