COLD FRONT

That Battlefield 1 is a goodlooking game should come as no surprise, but DICE has combined photogrammetry and its Frostbite engine to astonishing effect. Every location is stunning, whether it’s the crisp, vertiginous mountain vistas of the Swiss alps, an Arabian desert engulfed by a violent sandstorm, or the rainlashed hell of no man’s land at the Western front. There’s a bleak beauty to everything and, despite spectacular views, it’s a welcome restraint that sees the set-piece transformations of Battlefield 4 replaced with dynamic weather and tactic-changing terrain deformation.