The single player mode is also a polished and realistic combat simulator, and includes perhaps the most famous military campaign in New Zealand history.
The latest release Battlefield 1 dropped only a week ago, and is already on track to become one of the biggest selling games ever.īattlefield 1's main selling point is its fantastic multi-player mode, where you can join 64 other players around the world online and battle across a raft of maps, from the Suez Canal and the Sinai Desert, to the Italian mountain ranges and the muddy trenches of the Western Front in northern France. Battlefield 1 is a realistic combat video game based in World War One, but its depiction of Gallipoli is laughable.Īs a fan of first-person shooter video games and a rabid World War One nerd, I feel it is my duty to report on the myriad of the game's historical inaccuracies.įor those unfamiliar with the Battlefield series, it's one of the highest-selling combat franchises in gaming history.
