And all those samey missions play out within the first three, which leaves the game rudderless less than halfway in. The only moment missing is when you hold to breach a door, and everything goes super slo-mo while you blast chumps with a shotgun.
With its good ol’ boy protagonist narrating the travails of a fractured band of US soldiers, WW2 plays out like a COD greatest hits: There’s the stealth mission, the driving mission, the sniping mission, the chase mission. Take every Band of Brothers cliché, every line of dialogue you’d expect to hear barked at you by a pissed-off CO – congratulations, you’ve just written the script for COD’s story mode. See that haunted, thousand-yard stare of the soldier on the box art? That’s about as close to the cold reality of war as Call Of Duty WW2 ever gets in a campaign that’s as forgettably enjoyable as it is generic. On that score, the game just about delivers. But which really is the better: Call of Duty WW2 or Battlefield 1?Ĭall of Duty campaigns have always been about high-octane set-pieces popcorn for the eyes (and hands). So, now we have two triple-A shooters taking on two world wars. After all, COD kicked off the world war shooter craze.īattlefield’s historical ambush put COD on the back-foot, and it wasn’t long before the announcement that Call of Duty returning to its WW2 roots – because Activision listens to what its fans want, see, and definitely not because Infinite War raked in millions of dollars, but not quite enough of them. When Battlefield announced it would be tackling WW1, after years of modern military shooters, it was a case of parking well-armoured tanks on Call of Duty’s lawn. You pull the trigger – but which one falls? Your iron sights waver between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty WW2.
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