Folks, it’s happening: just like the early to mid 2000s, we’re back in an endless cycle of big-budget WW2 shooters. The first trailer and a bucketload of details about Battlefield V are out in the cooling wake of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 announce… and yep, we’re back to WW2, folks! Booyah!
Like 2016’s Battlefield 1 – which kicked off the historical shooter revival in a big way by being set during WW1 – the game will have a rich multiplayer focus, with a single-player campaign unfolding through ‘War Stories’, an anthology of character-driven fictional stories from the war.
It certainly looks like the massive outrage about the monetisation schemes in Star Wars: Battlefront II have sufficiently spooked publisher EA and developer DICE. They’ve already confirmed that there will not be any loot boxes, cosmetic or otherwise, and that you won’t have to pay for any new maps or modes, and there isn’t a ‘premium pass’ system. That’s good!
The Battlefield V livestream introduced a whole raft of new gameplay adjustments and focuses, but the big one that keeps coming up is something called ‘Grand Operations’ – a multiplayer mode based around epic, multi-match campaigns based around real military campaigns, like the operation to capture Rotterdam. It’s a more narratively involved mode than the endless battle royale Fortnite clones currently in development or early release. That being said, rumours strongly suggest that EA is also hard at work on a battle royale mode for Battlefield V, which is entirely unsurprising.
We’ll be seeing more of Battlefield V at E3.
