https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/439vmg/battlefield-v-needs-to-give-up-on-war-stories-single-player

It was during the final assault on the German position in the French countryside that the unbearable truth hit me—I viscerally hate the single player campaign in Battlefield V, developer DICE’s World War II-themed follow up to Battlefield 1.

The game’s cold open put me in the shoes of various doomed protagonists across the Second World War’s diverse theatres before donning the distinctive fez of a Senegalese Tirailleur helping to liberate France during 1944’s Operation Dragoon. I was excited. I’ve been writing about conflict for a decade and here, finally, was a story I had never heard before. The surviving Senegalese Tirailleurs didn’t even get full citizenship to the country they helped liberate until 2017. Theirs is a fascinating story that needs telling and adds nuance to our understanding of WWII. I wish Battlefield V’s single player campaign had lived up to the promise of that story, but it didn’t.