Just finished the campaign. I think this was the worst military FPS campaign I've ever played or at the very least the worst Battlefield campaign I've ever played, which also says a lot.
They try to go for this "Yo war is terrible and all" approach but completely undermine it every second. In the first chapter you literally kill 49578348953 germans with your tank that just run at you mindlessly, then your tank gets stuck and they try to have this emotional moment with you flying the messenger pigeon back when in reality this was just extremely cringeworthy. Like yea I just slaughtered thousands like nothing, but look at this white pigeon and the dramatic music! So much emotion! What a joke.
The same goes for all the other campaigns as well. In the aviation campaign for some reason they restrict your controls and remove cockpit view. The whole italian campaign (which is basically just 20min) you are literally Rambo and mow down hundreds of austrians like it's nothing but at the end somehow it's supposed to be super-sad because your friend was killed offscreen. Who designed this crap, seriously?
And the last campaign, while it had narrative and gameplay potential, was also completely squandered by not telling more about the characters and the train-part which was also hilariously bad design-wise. It had the most potential yet ended up the most superficial campaign of all, characterization-wise. Also AI is pretty much nonexistant. You can snipe one by one and even if they see the bodies and enter "Yellow-Mode" they still just walk around slowly waiting to die.
And I don't know what this "final message from DICE" was supposed to be other than "Check out the MP!".
(all this ignoring that they only show the Entente's perspective, which I've complained about plenty before, so I'm not going to go into that again)
