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Battlefield V: War Stories hands-on videos — Single-player mode captures war’s emotion and horror

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Electronic Arts’ DICE studio bet big on the single-player vignettes, dubbed War Stories, for its upcoming Battlefield V first-person shooter game coming on the consoles and PC on November 20.

These missions, like their predecessors in Battlefield 1’s World War I setting, depict the horrors of war through four well-told stories. I played through the full Nordlys story, about the infiltration of a German heavy water factory in the Norwegian wilderness, in a hands-on session at Electronic Arts’ headquarters in Redwood City, California.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.