Beyond the frontlines: how Battlefield V found fresh WWII battles to fight

Beyond the frontlines: how Battlefield V found fresh WWII battles to fight

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/22/beyond-the-frontlines-how-battlefield-v-found-fresh-wwii-battles-to-fight

Swedish games studio Dice on telling lesser-told – and sometimes controversial – stories of the second world war

Since their beginnings in the early 00s, Battlefield games have been known for wild, unpredictable battles involving up to 64 players, on foot, in tanks or on planes. But the last two games, themed after the world wars, have introduced a new kind of single-player storytelling to complement their frenetic multiplayer warfare. Presented as an anthology of separate stories about individual people and places involved in the conflicts, War Stories debuted with 2016’s Battlefield 1, and focused on allied soldiers fighting the Germans in France, Turkey, the UK and Italy, and Ottomans in the Kingdom of Hejaz alongside Lawrence of Arabia.

Beyond the frontlines: how Battlefield V found fresh WWII battles to fight

Nov 23, 2018, 11:22am UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/22/beyond-the-frontlines-how-battlefield-v-found-fresh-wwii-battles-to-fight > Swedish games studio Dice on telling lesser-told – and sometimes controversial – stories of the second world war > Since their beginnings in the early 00s, Battlefield games have been known for wild, unpredictable battles involving up to 64 players, on foot, in tanks or on planes. But the last two games, themed after the world wars, have introduced a new kind of single-player storytelling to complement their frenetic multiplayer warfare. Presented as an anthology of separate stories about individual people and places involved in the conflicts, War Stories debuted with 2016’s Battlefield 1, and focused on allied soldiers fighting the Germans in France, Turkey, the UK and Italy, and Ottomans in the Kingdom of Hejaz alongside Lawrence of Arabia.