RIVAL TITLES BATTLEFIELD AND C.O.D. UNVEIL MORE DETAILS BEFORE RELEASE NEXT MONTH
ANNUAL( ISH) first- person shooter behemoths Battlefield and Call of Duty return next month — and they’re ploughing very different furrows this year.
EA’s offering, Battlefield 2042, sends the player 21 years into the future with all the advanced gadgetry that suggests – while Call of Duty: Vanguard from Activision is set during various theatres of World War II across the globe.
Another difference is that Battlefield is forgoing a single- player campaign to focus on multiplayer – and this week teased details of its new mode Hazard Zone.
Enemy
The tense, squad-focused survival experience sees you and teammates tasked with locating, gathering and extracting important data drives before a storm overtakes the area. (There will be seven maps to choose from.)
It starts in a Mission Area Briefing where you’ll get the info you need to succeed, from regions of the map with a high probability of enemy combatants, data drives, di and d Uplinks – powerful items that can turn the tide of battle.
You’ll then select your squad’s Specialists and loadouts before plunging into the action – where even once you’ve managed to secure the loot, only two extraction windows are available per match at randomised locations, for a short period of time. Sousingyourbrainaswellasyour brawn will be key to success.
Battlefield 2042 launches November 19. Call of Duty: Vanguard, on the other hand, will deliver a single-player story mode – The Rise of Special Forces.
It follows original special forces unit Task Force One in its mission to take on a ruthless Nazi project and tells the backstory of its soldiers by immersing players in their past battles – from North Africa to the
Pacific to Stalingrad to France.
Brawn
Like its predecessors, Call of Duty: Vanguard will also include a terrifying Zombies experience where a twisted Nazi experiment gives them the power to raise the dead from the mass graves of Stalingrad — which in fairness is an appetite-whetting premise.
And of course Vanguard will also have the usual range of more vanilla multiplayer modes that fans are used to. It launches a fortnight before Battlefield on November 5.