Call Of Duty: WWII - 5 Ways It Will Blow Battlefield Out The Water
3. A Retooled Multiplayer Offering
Battlefield has often outgunned Call of Duty on the multiplayer front, but 2017 could be the year the balance tips back in CoD's favour.
Although the EA series has triumphed thanks to its expansive maps, CoD: WWII is really upping the ante with more substantial skirmishes.
A new multiplayer setting dubbed Headquarters mode allows a whopping 48 players to get together to challenge each other in all kinds of new ways.
It doubles as a social space comparable to Warcraft’s Orgrimmar, a hub where players can do everything from compare kill streaks to blast targets in a virtual firing range.
CoD: WWII looks set to be the first war game to appreciate the fact that soldiers actually did other things beyond killing enemy troops. This could well be the most community-focused shooter yet.
Meanwhile, the objective-based War Mode looks capable of squaring up to Battlefield 1’s Operations and matching it blow for blow.
And as for the core Allies-versus-Axis action, deathmatches promise to be slower-paced and more strategic, and this coupled with Call of Duty's tighter maps could make it more than a match for Battlefield this time.