Battlefield 1 - PlayStation 4

So first off as someone who has played battlefield since the very beginning and has played every battlefield released to date, this is definitely one of the most stable releases, I've ever seen. I've had very few online errors and after the horrible release of BF4, it's a breath of fresh air. The campaign is actually pretty good though it is a bit short and just uses the same maps from the online portion. I do wish the campaign was a bit longer and had some more unique areas but it's still quite fun. It's a huge improvement over the campaigns of the last few games actually.The multiplayer is the main part of the game obviously and it's a ton of fun. It's very much built around teamwork and squad-play. You won't pose much of a threat if you're on your own so you should probably look elsewhere if you don't like working with your team. This game basically requires it if you want to win matches. The classes are actually pretty balanced as each class only really excels in certain situations. Assualt is good for close quarters and fighting vehicles. Medics are good at medium range combat and they can revive and heal people. Scouts post long-range threats but aren't very dangerous up close and have few useful support items other than spotting flares which light up enemy positions for a short amount of time, and lastly support has suppression capabilities so they excel and mowing down large numbers of people or blocking doorways with constant fire and they can also use mortars and give their teamates ammo. Personally, I love it. No one class is a god-tier class capable of mowing down all the others. You can't just run in and kill ten people without reloading. You're lucky if you can kill two or three without reloading in a great situation. It's very well done and forces you to focus more on objectives to win rather than just playing for kills.As for the game modes, operations mode is very interesting and is essentially like rush mixed with conquest. One team tries to take two flags a series of times and if they fail, they'll gain a behemoth for the next try which will generally help them push forward and take the flags. It's very well done. Conquest and rush still exist and conquest is still very much my favorite game mode. The new game mode carrier pigeons isn't bad but it's a bit tiring. It's very fast paced but worth trying once or twice to see if you like it. I'm not a fan of team deathmatch so I'm not going to touch on it here. If you like it, feel free to play it, but it's really not the main game made for battlefield. Conquest is where the real action happens and it;s very intense. You'll find yourself constantly under fire when you try to storm flags and you'll see constant explosions all around you. Vehicles are done differently than in 4 with each time now receiving a number of vehicle tickets they can spend at the beginning and after a reset time when a vehicle is taken out. This means your team has to carefully pick which vehicles you use because you may only get one or two tanks or one or two planes and if your team grabs all light tanks and fighters, you'll be at a disadvantage to a team with a heavy tank, a landship, a bomber, and an attack plane. Again, teamwork is very important and vehicles should be the number one target when you're up against them. A single heavy tank can roll over dozens of people largely untouched if he has one or two guys who can repair him and the same goes for the landship. The light tank poses a big threat to infantry but is fairly easy to kill for only one or two assault players and thus isn't terribly valuable except in infantry heavy combat. The planes are very well done. Each one excels at a specific role much like every other thing in this game and you have to play up their strengths in the right situations to win but you always need to be careful of flak cannons which can knock you out of the air fast. Artillery guns are a new an interesting feature as well and they're pretty cool and they actually pose a big threat to people since they have massive splash and can kill vehicles fairly easily.Overall, this is an amazing game, Pick it up. You won't regret it.

Visceral and instantaneously engaging would be my two word review. I don't care how historically accurate this game is. Many people I talk to say that they will skip playing this game because of that. If you're being swayed by the statements from the historians, ignore them. You are missing an absolutely entertaining game that far exceeds my high expectations. I knew I would like it, but what I didn't expect was the amount of immersion that the game throws at me. This is especially good with surround sound or a good headset. This goes for both the single player and the multiplayer. This may be a sin, but I always skip the single player campaign and go straight to multiplayer. (I've only played about 10 minutes of the single player campaign, but the way it is presented is like nothing I've seen before.) My first conquest match was on a rocky mountainside with some small villages and tons of green grass. I was blown away by the differences in the terrain and the scenery. Not only that I was impressed by the zeppelin that floated in and sounded it's crazy death horn. That addition to the battle really changed the pace. No matter what I did to hold checkpoint C, no matter how much pink mist I created, I could not stop the zeppelin from putting the smack down on me. There is another map that takes place in a rained out village. My guns were covered in rain and mud! It made me feel like I was there marching through the rubble of a war torn village. Everything feels gritty from the guns, to the sound effects, to the visuals.Earlier I said visceral and engaging. I meant it. My best reference to how memorable this game is was the scene from Saving Private Ryan where one of the US soldiers (Mellish) gets slow knifed in the building where the German easily steps over the wimp Upham. I felt like I was slow knifed. I will never forget that scene and I will never forget the immersion in Battlefield 1.