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Devoid of the globe-spanning, adventurous conflict depicted in DICE’s forthcoming effort, Verdun instead concerns itself with the mud, grit and rotten plank-lined trenches that served as both salvation and damnation for those millions of soldiers who ran its gauntlet in the four years spanning from 1914 to 1918.įrom loading screens which provide real-life photographs and accounts of the battles that you can fight yourself, to an accurate take on the Christmas Truce of 1914 where both sides put down their guns and can share coffee, play football in the snow and send postcards back home to loved ones, it’s abundantly clear that the developer of Verdun is passionate about this period of history in a way that very few developers have been.Īudibly, Verdun manages to raise the bar too, with the pained screams of your comrades attempting to free their flesh from the savage embrace of mud-drenched barbed wire, coupled with the whistling of near-miss rounds, shouted orders and pounding artillery all coming together to create an audio cacophony of war quite unlike anything previously experienced on PlayStation.
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Indeed, a million miles away from the glitzy dubstep, Hollywood-infused trappings of EA’s Battlefield 1, the development team behind Verdun have instead elected to tell the tale of those soldiers for whom the trenches were a home away from home. Unlike Ubisoft’s more intimate take on the squad-based FPS however, Verdun expands its horizons, taking in a number of outdoor, historically accurate maps while allowing players to take control one of four different roles from a wide range of soldier brigades, pulled from the pages of history.