Battlefield 1 Reviews: 8 Early Reactions You Need To Know

4. The Campaign Prepares You For Multiplayer

"[Battlefield 1] folds major elements of multiplayer gameplay and systems into the game proper. Spotting, positioning, conquest game mechanics, vehicles - they’re all there, and Battlefield is finally teaching people how to play it in a way that doesn’t feel desultory" - Polygon

To remedy the assumption that any multiplayer-focussed FPS has a completely pointless campaign, EA look to have taken a page out of DOOM's book, factoring in a number of the game's multiplayer maps into the single-player, and teaching you the ropes of how to play in the process.

Polygon's Arthur Gies went on to say"I played a dozen hours of Battlefield 1’s multiplayer before I played the campaign, and I definitely felt like I understood the former better after I completed War Stories."