Last week, a press tour was held in Stockholm Battlefileld v : journalists were invited to the office Dice Especially to show a single game. You will find our impressions of network modes here, the analysis of the royal battle will have to wait until its release, but it makes sense to talk about the new set of military stories now. Three of them will appear at the start, and the fourth – “The Last“ Tiger ”” will join the first addition. By the way, it will be free: the company decided to abandon Season Pass and other covered content. Now, as in the good old days, once by acquiring a game, you will get everything that it has in it at once. Or rather, you will receive as it exits.

Prosthesis, katana and bodyar

When the Battlefield v was just announced, the audience remained some at a perplexity from the innovative look at the Second World War: with female shock battalions, mechanical hands, bodyart and other attributes, poorly knitting both historical reality and the very atmosphere of the largest military conflict In the history of mankind.

At first, the developers stubbornly defended the reliability of all these elements: they even demonstrated photographs where women-soldiers with prostheses really appeared. But only cases all these were single, and in the game it seemed that the whole war passed under the slogan from Cannon Fodder : "War Has Never Been So Much Fun".

All campaigns are preceded by a kind of prologue: it is shown literally one scene from each “military history”

Fortunately, the course has changed lately. Castamization pounced properly: no more ninja with katan and combat painting throughout the body. And in general, with each trailer, the game became more serious and serious, as a result in the shaky balance between fun and gloom, which no longer causes rejection. True, many rammbo elements in Battlefield v still remained: this is still an entertaining game, not a historical simulator, and the developers still put the gameplay at the forefront.

There are no such fortifications with a swinging … but have to. But the number of dead during the assault will be impressive

On the verge of freezing

The first single campaign, Aurora, tells the story of the young Norwegian Solveig. The Nazis abducted her mother, and in addition, they also keep her on the basis with a bunch of secret documents that would be nice to convey to the resistance. In a word, there is nothing left for the girl, how to get on skis (in the literal sense) and go to kill two birds with one stone: to help out mother and ruin plans for the manufacture of new bombs based on deater.

And although we are all the game and say that to fight against the whole army alone is a gystoye matter, the score of the killed enemies can still go hundreds of. Or maybe not go: it depends on what style of passage you will prefer.

Each "military history" has its own color scheme, and in the atmosphere they differ markedly

This year, military stories are no longer just a prelude to the multiplayer, as in Battlefield 1. Now they have good directing Kitszen, and the correct dramatic production, and, most importantly, the levels themselves are more like a sandbox, where the same problem can be solved in several ways.

If you want-hide in the bushes and dark corners and cut out the fascists quietly, creeping up to them from behind or throwing knives from afar. And the throwing blade here is an ultimate thing: one thing is enough into any part of the body so that the enemy falls freely without a single squeak. There will always be bypass paths and careless patrols, which go far from their own, and one should not forget about the opportunity to quickly put skis and escape with a breeze from a worried hornet's nest, if something suddenly went wrong. You can’t even kill anyone, it is probably also possible – in any case, there are enough places in the game where it is not at all necessary to cut out all enemies. Actually, the escape with the documents is really easier to make, without fighting with each oncoming person, but simply bypassing everyone along a wide arc.

In the cold Norwegian forests there is a terrible monster. And only we know who it is and where careless German soldiers constantly disappear

But if you want to fight – well, there are plenty of weapons and cartridges around. Running, maneuvers, accurate shooting – also quite suitable tools bronze casino to achieve their goals. It is best to combine the methods: first, quietly cut out everyone who will work out, and if the alarm has risen, it is already to go out with an automatic machine and finish off the survivors. Not forgetting to turn off the sirens so that reinforcement does not arrive.

The location is huge, the goals are scattered into various parts of it, so that you have to run and have to fight from the heart. In some places there are interesting mechanics, such as freezing in the cold air and warming up in bonfires, without which Solveig will quickly melt. At times on the map they immediately mark three points at once, and only you decide in what order to visit them.

Shots with a lonely female figure on snowy mountain slopes immediately forced to worry about the heroine "Aurora". But you would know what she is capable of in battle!

One thing is bad: there is little content! Neither side tasks, nor any gathering, nor something else that would encourage the campaign after it will be passed. Yes, it can be held again in another way (for example, more carefully), but the game does not reward for this – in any case, while.

And it’s a pity, because the action is really very interesting and exciting. However, all the Aurora is running from the force of an hour in two. The inevitable cost of the format of “military stories”, where, instead of one long plot branch, we have several short ones, but about different heroes and in different surroundings. And not that it was a unequivocal minus – it just tightens this short adventure so much that it becomes very sorry to leave the snowy Norway upon completion of the mission.

Closer to the south

In two other military stories, they allowed to play a little bit, literally before the first tasks. The second, “without banner,” tells about the British criminal, who was given a chance to atone for the guilt of the state with exploits on the battlefield. He enters the sabotage detachment and goes to North Africa. Here, with freedom of choice, everything is even better: a large open location, a bunch of ways of approach and waste, a sea of ​​weapons, equipment and aviation. A bonus – very colorful heroes who do not always succeed the first time.

In the “Without Banner” campaign, excellent characters: that the main character Bill Brider, that his cynical partner

And finally, the third military story, the “tiralr”, will tell about the dark -skinned colonial drafte forced to fight for France – a country in which he has never even been. What he thinks about this is revealed through the hero’s constant conversations with himself when he tries to convince himself that he is doing the right thing, although the “native country” does not care at all about colonial battalions. You have to fight in conditions of equipment shortage: soldiers, in fact, are sent to slaughter, simply “throwing meat” of the enemy’s position.

This is the already aged protagonist of Tyralier named Dem. Torn from a peaceful life in Senegal and thrown into the most vent of war – which he talks about during the campaign

This is the most close to the classics of the campaign: you act as part of a large detachment, which gradually moves into the depths of enemy fortifications, carrying losses and picking up from the battlefield what will turn out. The battles here are truly large-scale: first you have to advance, and then defend the enemy’s arriving waves in the fortifications just repulsed. There is no longer up to Stlax, but there are enough shootings and battles with equipment. A cooperative would have fit here perfectly, which, incidentally, has already promised to be introduced into the game – however, they have not yet told what kind of form.

The fourth story that will come out later will also differ in gameplay and mood. There we will get the commander of a tank crew, managing the legendary Tiger, and also, most importantly, for the first time in the history of the series, we will play for the Germans, and not for the allies, which will show the war under a different angle. And yes, it will be a very gloomy story.

The campaign for the Germans will have to wait

Hey, how are we?

There is only a lack of, as always, campaigns for advice. About whether she will be, the developers do not yet say, not wanting to talk about far-reaching plans, but there is still hope, so, a respected Dice studio, please keep in mind: we are very asking for it and wait for it.

By the way, you could notice that all campaigns are devoted not to some famous events of the war, but little-known, albeit quite significant, episodes. The developers took this step consciously, explaining it by the fact that making the next landing on the ohmakh beach would be wrong. The position is understandable-but there is also the defense of Stalingrad, and the liberation of Odessa, and the Kursk arc, and the battle of Vistula … We hope that these events will also someday pay attention to. The benefit of the format of "military stories" very much even allows.