That does give the vehicle encounters a boss fight feel, especially since anti-vehicle weapons are harder to come by. And once you've shot one, you've shot the vast majority of them – variety is limited to standard troops with various but similar weapons, up-armored versions of those same soldiers who can absorb an annoying amount of bullets, and occasional flamethrower soldiers.
German soldiers will sometimes take cover, but just as often they'll charge into machine gun fire out in the open. It helps in that effort that enemy AI is pretty weak throughout. The campaign is capped off with a holdout mission against waves of Nazi infantry and vehicles, which is a decent fight as long as you avoid thinking about how absurd it is for one man to run between anti-tank, anti-air, and anti-personnel turrets to single-handedly fight a small army to a standstill. You can stop to tag enemy soldiers with your binoculars and plan your assault, Far Cry-style. The map is big enough to allow you to steal a plane and fly around, though on normal difficulty the enemy planes barely seemed to fight back so controlling the skies wasn't as challenging as it seemed like it should've been. Technically it makes little difference what you do, since none of the facilities you're out to bomb affects the other two, but the freedom to approach them from any angle – stopping to tag enemy soldiers with your binoculars and plan your assault, Far Cry-style – gives an illusion of control.
Under No Flag's second mission is where it gets interesting: a wide-open map gives you your choice of three targets to tackle in any order. Their mentor-protege relationship is cliched but well written and acted, with a few moments of genuinely funny humor to strengthen their characters in the short time we're with them. The pair's sabotage mission in northern Africa begins with a fairly linear, stealthy stroll onto a Nazi airfield where the most memorable moment comes from the banter between the two. The first campaign, Under No Flag, stars a young delinquent recruited by a gruff veteran to join Britain's Special Boat Service which, it turns out, has very little to do with boats. The three stories together are still a fun six or so hours to fight through, but there's a lot left on the table in that regard. The only time you get to drive a tank or fly a real airborne mission is for around a minute in the brief tutorial, which is a bit of a tease.
It doesn't put the Battlefield series' strength in large-scale warfare to good use.Īlso strange is the fact that these missions are fought almost entirely on foot, aside from a few maps that give you the option to hop in a jeep or a plane.
That's fine, except that it doesn't put the Battlefield series' strength of huge maps with room for lots of large-scale warfare to good use. So it's an odd design choice by DICE that two out of the three campaigns have you fighting almost entirely on your own and emphasize the just-okay stealth gameplay. As a result, whenever the action heats up the pace is generally as fast as the explosions are spectacularly loud. This is a run-and-gun shooter, where the health is regenerating and the weapons and ammo are plentiful.
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