The story of Nordlys is a touching emotional rollercoaster and showed that women were just as brave if not more so than the men of World War 2. We did a bit of exploration a bit later in Nordlys when the map opened up a fair bit, and it was fun to be able to put the skis on and off. Skiing plays a decent role in this war story, and you can climb up hills to get a survey of your surrounds with your binoculars and then ski down. It quickly becomes your job to take down some German installations to stop them from getting rare resources only found in the far reaches of an icy land. We quickly jumped in to Nordlys where you get to play as a resistance fighter in Norway caught up in something much bigger. While we were asked not to get in to detail about the prologue, we can say that it will give you a good idea of what to expect from the rest of the war stories. There’s no weird accented English in Battlefield V, it’s all how it would have been in World War 2. We learned that each war story is in a different language with subtitles to maintain authenticity. While what we played was incomplete, it was clear that the war stories are a big step up from Battlefield 1. The final war story The Last Tiger is coming post-launch in December and will focus on Tiger I Tank #237 in an unwinnable battle against the allied forces.
We were given access to the full prologue and Nordlys mission, however Under No Flag and Tirailleur were only 1/3 rd complete, and the game booted us out early on. This meant we could run Battlefield V on maximum settings and test out the open-world environments in each of the war stories. Set in the dramatic Cell Block Theatre of the National Art School, EA Australia had about two dozen top-end PC’s set up, and a huge projector screen where we got to watch unreleased trailers and in-game cut-scenes that were yet to be put in to the current build of the game.ĮA provided us with an AOC 144hz screen and sweet RGB towers with a nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Electronic Arts and DICE invited us to Sydney on Tuesday to try out the new Battlefield V war stories, and interview DICE design director Eric Holmes (known for Battlefield 1, Arkham Origins and more) to find out more about what players can expect when the game launches next month.