For a long time we thought about the question: ‘What’s going on’? But that is clear since EA released the first trailer about their latest game of the Battlefield series that is now called Battlefield 1. And yes, we all know that it now takes place in the first huge World War. We also know that it has his power back. That means, Battlefield fans will enjoy once again battles with 64 players, a lot of vehicles and planes and four different classes of soldiers. Everybody who will play the single player will fight his way through different stories about this huge war. Now we have to think about the ‘How does it work in this time period?’ How varied and balanced are the multiplayer maps? What about the gameplay modes? Did they change the game’s technology? And the most important, how much fun we had to play Battlefield 1? Let’s find out.

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First we have to say that we love it that the new Battlefield 1 begins in a totally different way than previous games of this series before. After the first start of the game we found ourself directly on the front of the World War 1. We just get one weapon and the simple mission to hold the line even for the price of our death. Great is that if you die in this mission, you still keep playing. That means that if you die you are gonna be automatically transported into the body of another soldier. At the beginning you are playing a simple soldier, after that your avatar is a MG-Gunner and at the end you will take a seat in one of the Mark-V-Tanks that been used in the WW1.

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This great designed Prolog is the beginning of a great campagne. We have never seen such a great designed single player in a Battlefield game before. Instead of a campaign that tells you one story line you can enjoy in this Battlefield five different stories. Great is that you can choose by yourself which one you want to play. These story are 45 up to 120 minutes long and have only one connection to each other…the first World War. We noticed very quickly that the developer wanted to show the player the brutality and chaos of this war from the perspective of a simple soldier. You do not play a excellent trained ultra power soldier that fights in each mission without fear like a Rambo. We do not want to tell you too much about this because we felt immediately in love with this single player. We could feel the characters emotions seen in the cutscenes thanks to the great mimic and well made animations. That is another reason we can confirm that we the game’s single player. Like we said before, we do not want to spoiler too much. We are truly convinced that every shooter fan should play it by himself.

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If you think about you will agree that there is a distance of more than 100 years between the setting Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 1. On the other hand we have to say that we love it that Battlefield 1 is the same fast past action shooter as BF 4. That means that on the one hand you will feel no differences between this two games when you are fighting against other players. On the other hand we have to confirm that this does not fix to the setting of the first World War. Instead of battles in trenches, we get the experience of rapid advances with fully automatic weapons, support of tanks and fights in the air. Who is searching for a realistic experience of the WW1 should play Verdun and not this one. But that is not something bad, because the developers said before they released this game, that this one will be a classic Battlefield Game and that they have to add a lot of own imaginations into it. So, everybody who loves and has a lot of fun with a fantastic Multiplayer-Shooter should get it..

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Especially only Battlefield veterans will notice the few changes DICE made for this game. Like known from other previous game, player can choose again between for classes, the Assault, the Medic, the Support and the Scout. Here is one the small changes: Some players will miss the the engineer class. But do not worry, his skills to repair and destroy vehicles are now available with the Assault or/and Supporter. The Assault has also a great Rocket Gun and Anti-Tank-Grenades which are very useful to destroy vehicles. You can choose for the supporter the Screwdriver to transform him into a mechanic. We can confirm that if you built a team with the classes Assault, Medic and the Supporter, you will notice very quickly that this combination fix great together. On the other hand you will also see that the scouter class is for players that want to play more alone than in a team. The only feature that can help your team is the Flare Gun that marks enemies automatically. All other gadgets are more helpful to get into a great lonely position at to kill by distance.

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But this isn’t all about the classes. In addition to the four we talked about you can span as a tank driver or pilot in this game. This happens automatically if you choose a tank or a plain as spawnpoint. This means also some great additional skills for the player. For example, he is able to repair his tank without leaving it. On the other hand, if you get into the situation to leave your vehicle you do not have the same great arming like other players. We love it because it motivates players to fight for their vehicles as long as their can and not to leave them on the field. We also quickly noticed how important vehicles in this game are. For example, the tanks. These are now more powerful but at the same time more rare. We also love the new spawn system of the vehicles. There are no vehicles at the different spawn points anymore. You can see on the map how many vehicles are able to choose and spawn directly into them (like in Star Wars Battlefront). With this system DICE could realize that there are no spawn campings with people waiting for vehicles anymore.

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What we also like is that DICE did not change many things about the gameplay mode. You can play Conquest, Rush, Domination and Team-Deathmatch like in the previous games before. In addition to them, DICE included also the War Pigeons mode. Two teams have to fight for some pigeons. After that they have to find a quiet spot to write a message and to send it out. Great is that it is possible to shoot the pigeons a few seconds after the start down. This mode is a nice addition to the theme of Battlefield 1.

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It looks very different for the new Operations-Mode. This could be the mode that has the chance to be the fan new favorite one. We love it how brilliant it combines the loved Rush and Conquest modes. In this mode you fight with other 63 players on on two or three maps. The attacking team has to conquer sectors and try to continue to push back the defenders team before all available Respawn-Tickets are gone. But this isn’t all. There is also the Own Gameplaymodes-Mode. This works like the known Weekly Brawl in Overwatch. Unfortunately, there has not been any server that offered this gameplay mode, so we wasn’t able to test it for you.

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What we also like are the Behemoths which are very important in the Operations-Mode. But they are also available in the game’s Conquest-Mode. As soon as it happens that one team is clearly superior to the other, the losing team get some help with a huge vehicle. The zeppelin which is more a battleship and the armored train are very powerful weapons that can change noticeable a match without being too overpowered. A great organized team will get them down, too. We are convinced that DICE found the right recipe for a balanced, exciting and funny gameplay. What we also like very much are the great designed nine maps.

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What we also love to confirm is, that the Number 1 in that Name of this game stands also for the Battlefield 1’s presentation. This game looks with the help of the Frostbite Engine that we catched our self from time to time sitting in front of the monitor breathless and our mouth wide open. Not only the single player, but the multiplayer, too, looking fantastic. It does not matter in which direction you look, everything looks beautiful. In addition to that the wonderful made details like the foam that sticks to our weapon. Or the new designed Damage model of the plains. We also live the dynamic weather system that allows you to fight from one moment to the other in rain, fog or even in a sandstorm. And we love it that DICE could program this game in a way that it is also optimized for middle class computers.  Also like is that we as player can choose between a full automatically working Server Browser or an additional matchmaking system. Unfortunately, only the Operations-Mode and the own gameplay mode-mode are only working with the matchmaking system. The quick-search works fantastic and very fast.

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We also can confirm that DICE are not offering the known Battlelog anymore. Instead of this they added a well working new HUB-Menu. This allows also to switch between Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline. What we also love to confirm is, that we noticed very quickly that DICE worked very hard on the game’s Netcode. What we also like is that this game tries to keep the player to play the classes as they should. You get a lot of XP for example for Revives, for the detection of enemies and for providing other players with ammo. This also promotes to play as a team.

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THAT’s IT: Battlefield 1 gives us exactly what we expected…a fantastic Battlefield game. Huge battles, varied maps and gameplay modes, uncomplicated action and a lot of fun with it. What especially like is that with this WW1 scenario we do not have so called Modern-Warfare-Features like rockets which flying automatically in the direction of the enemy, drones or even a huge number of expansions for weapons. It is not bad that DICE did not design a complete new innovative gameplay. Their Setting still works and is from our point of view nearly perfect. They did not change many things that we have already seen in the previous Battlefield, but we noticed very quickly that they working in this setting very well, too. From our point of view and what we love most about this game is the new Operation-Mode which will be the upcoming fan’s most favourite mode. And additionally there are also these so called war stories. We can promise that it will not hurt you to play them and we can confirm that the storylines are much better than in the game before. Yes, there is a lack of authenticity, but we do not wanted a second Verdun made by DICE. We expected a Battlefield made by DICE which takes place in the first World War. But we also can say that there are huge chances to get some awards for the best shooter of 2016 with an awesome gameplay, fantastic look and well designed sounds.

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