How Call of Duty: WW2 Compares to Battlefield 1

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Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: WW2

War, What is it Good For?

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One of the big new attractions of Call of Duty: World War II is the War multiplayer mode. In this mode, one team is tasked with trying to complete a series of objectives while the opposing team blocks them. The comparable mode for Battlefield 1 is Operations mode, which has one team defending a series of sectors while the enemy attempts to capture them in multiple waves.

Battlefield 1’s Operations mode is a fun getaway from Conquest, though they’re very similar. There are two major issues with Operations that makes it sort of a dud though.

Getting into a full game of Operations is hard. Right now with In the Name of the Tsar newly released, there’s plenty of people playing the two new Operations that come with that expansion, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a full game featuring the maps that came with They Shall Not Pass.

It’s also just a bit too close to being a variation of Frontlines that just goes one way. It’s fun, but it doesn’t add a ton to the Battlefield formula.

Call of Duty’s War mode features maps made specifically for that mode. Operation: Breakout was the only map available in the beta, but it left an impression as something that’s very good for the series.

In Operation: Breakout, as the Allied Forces you must rush and capture a German HQ, rebuild a demolished bridge, blow up an ammo dump, then escort a tank to take out some AA guns. Each objective requires you to switch up your play a bit, and it ends up being methodical and action-packed.

The main issue I had with the map I played was that it was too short. Each game can only last a maximum of 16 minutes, with each objective having a four-minute time limit. I would like to see the max player count for this mode go up, and see more objectives per map. For those who wanted shorter games, maybe there could be rotations of short, medium, and long War mode matches, or even a pool of randomized objectives.

If I liked Call of Duty: WW2’s beta, would I enjoy Battlefield 1?

If you enjoyed the COD: WW2 beta, then a lot is waiting for you in Battlefield 1. Several of the modes, like Rush and Team Deathmatch, replicate the frantic play that’s a hallmark of Call of Duty quite well. You’ll also get to enjoy a visit to many of the same environments you saw in the beta, and get a chance to weird some of the same firearms.

If I like Battlefield 1, will I like Call of Duty: WW2?

This is a bit iffier of a question. If you really like Conquest mode and vehicle combat, you might not enjoy the close-in combat of Call of Duty. There’s technically no vehicles found in the game in the same sense that you see them in Battlefield. Also, there’s a lot more emphasis on what each soldier does, and the teams are a lot smaller, so if you like that feeling of attacking en masse with 31 fellow players you may not love Call of Duty.


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Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.