Inside the War Stories of Battlefield V’s single-player campaign

Battlefield is a series born out of multiplayer, but its developer EA DICE knows there’s an audience that greatly values the single-player FPS campaign - one that it can serve all the more now Call of Duty is wholly multiplayer. Following the lead established in 2016's Battlefield 1, the team has returned to the 'War Stories' format for the single-player campaign in Battlefield V. In a tradition much more prominent in war comics old and new, DICE's War Stories offer relatively short, self-contained stories, each with a different setting, protagonist, and goal. Four of these will be included at Battlefield V's launch, though one is a prologue that hops between what appear to be elements from each of the existing War Stories, in an attempt to state the scope of WWII that Battlefield V explores. The remaining three are titled Nordlys, Tirailleur, and Under No Flag, and are broadly based on real history. In Nordlys you play a young fighter in the Norwegian resistance, fighting occupation in a feral winter. In Tirailleur you join the French Colonial Force's 'Senegalese' units. These troops fought for France, a country many of its population had never visited, and could face intense racism if ever they did. Under No Flag, meanwhile, sees a squad of convicted criminals - teams that really were assembled in WWII to deliver unconventional tactics - seek to destroy German air bases in North Africa.