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Battlefield 1 Is Not A Single Campaign Story, It's About Player War Stories

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The title of the story perhaps will make you scratch your head in confusion. That’s understandable since we have been used to playing single player campaigns that have a linear story usually revolving around a single character. In creating the single player campaign, the creators of Battlefield 1 decided on having an anthology in which a set of characters with their own stories.  As written on the Battlefield 1 Blog:

“In Battlefield 1 you’ll experience a series of what we call War Stories: personal stories focusing on different protagonists with unique backgrounds and skills. While our characters are at war, the stories in Battlefield 1 are personal. They’re about people rather than history or battles.”

The characters in the story will have their stories to tell such as the young crew member of a British Mark V Tank who has to learn how to operate the tank fast and also needs to earn the trust of the crew. What is also exciting in this game as that you’ll get to meet some of the most famous people of World War II such as Lawrence of Arabia or the Red Baron. With Lawrence of Arabia, the character plays a right hand role and act as the scout. As to how to accomplish the mission at hand, it’s up to the player and doing so will create his/her own story to tell.

Let’s go back to the blogpost:

“In previous Battlefield iterations we’ve experienced the story through the eyes of one main character, and it was very rare that the camera cut anywhere. But in Battlefield 1 we decided we wanted stronger characters instead of just telling players “you are the character”. One way to do this was to invoke classic cinematics that lets you see your character more than in first-person-theater. We wanted the player to see and feel what the characters are going through, rather than just experiencing it from behind their eyes. That has really payed off for us not just in storytelling ability, but in emotional engagement.”

All of these are designed to encourage the players to play the game according to how they would want to play it a multiplayer environment. This means that the player is given options on how to accomplish a mission/level rather than following an already predetermined path seen in single player campaigns.

Battlefield 1 is due to be released on the 21st of October and will be available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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