The upcoming Battlefield V will include "compelling single-player stories", seemingly pointing to a continuation of the campaign style introduced in Battlefield 1.

"With our next Battlefield game, the team at DICE is bringing the intensity of combat to life in new and unexpected ways. Every battle is unique, and every mode brings its own challenges - from the way you interact with the environment around you, to compelling single-player stories, to the next level of large-scale multiplayer that spans across multiple maps and modes."

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While Battlefield's traditional competitor, Call of Duty has apparently dropped a single-player mode for this year's Black Ops 4 , it seems DICE and EA will not be following suit.As part of yesterday's earnings report , EA CEO Andrew Wilson described the upcoming game:The use of the word "stories" seems to point to a continuation of Battlefield 1's "vignette" style campaign, which saw you play as several characters across the breadth of World War 1. With Battlefield V apparently returning to a World War 2 setting , it seems DICE is keen to stick with slightly wider worldview.In our review , we called Battlefield 1's campaign "a short but pleasantly surprising anthology of small, human stories that does a good job spotlighting some of the key technology of the era."If all the current rumours are true, we'll be looking at one of the biggest Battlefield games of recent years. Alongside a campaign and the expected Battlefield muliplayer, we've also heard that the game will feature a dedicated co-op mode and, of course, that a Battle Royale mode is being prototyped EA had a lot more to talk about yesterday. It announced a record-breaking $5.1 billion yearly revenue, committed to an early 2019 release for Anthem , and insisted that its loot boxes are not gambling

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he just looked at the Battlefield series history and still can't work if this being called "V" makes any sense at all. Follow him on Twitter