Welcome to this issue of the game more than that, I'm Joey.
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914.
A barrage of gunfire ignited the powder kegs of World War I.
European countries began to mobilize urgently to prepare for the coming all-out war.
A small town in Saint-Mières, France. Wife Mary is holding her young child, lying in a wheat heap looking at her husband Karl, who is busy making a living. The sun was shining and everything was so calm, but the tension of war soon enveloped the peaceful land. Today is August 1, 1914, and Germany has declared war on the Russian Empire. France is also about to be involved in this bloody war.
If war had not come, the couple would have lived peacefully in this windy French town. The arrival of two gendarmes shattered the calm. Due to the sensitive identity of karl Germans, they will be deported for this purpose. He was also forced to separate from his wife and children.
The catastrophe of the war affected not only young people, a few days later on August 3. Germany again declared war on France. France mobilized most of its living forces, even the middle-aged. Karl's father-in-law, Emir, received a conscription order and needed to report immediately to the nearest barracks. In this way, the brutal war has swept innocent people into hell one after another, and thus the story of the game Braveheart: World War also begins.
When the Emir came to the barracks. Led by the instructor's roar, after hastily participating in some simple military training, he was ready to go to the battlefield. As a 2D side-scrolling adventure game, the game is simple to operate and easy to get started. After a series of simple obstacle crossing, grenade-throwing, melee training. To the passionate accompaniment of Marseillaise, this group of French soldiers will embark on a journey to the front.
Little did they know, however, that in the next four years of war, the vast majority of people would never be able to return to their homeland.
Braveheart: World Wars is a 2014 game produced by Ubisoft Montpellier, and under the horizontal framework, it introduces a variety of game elements such as traditional puzzle solving and infiltration. The game adopts the form of hand-drawn style combined with comic book storyboarding, which fully demonstrates the cruelty of war.
The Emir came to Paris with the train, where he prepared for the assembly of troops. Most of the French soldiers at the train station had not yet faced the war, and some people were eating on the platform and some were playing music. There was also a flirtation with a large black soldier, when France had gathered a group of black soldiers in the colonies and the United States to join the Foreign Legion for the sake of war. These black soldiers are the same as shown in the single-player plot of "Battlefield 5" in the early years, and most of the French people don't look up to them much. Therefore, these blacks were often made to work as coolies in the army, and they were also subjected to various insults and exclusions. When Emile saw that this was inappropriate, he helped him break the siege. The two learned in a brief exchange that his name was Freddie and he was from the United States. As the bell rang and the train was about to start, they hurriedly bid farewell before they were too familiar.
On August 21, 1914, after declaring war on France, the German army invaded France with great momentum. The flames of war were almost reaching The Emir's hometown. In order to resist the invasion, the French launched a charge against the enemy. However, in the face of the heavy German machine guns and artillery, the French casualties were extremely heavy, and the picture changed from bright to dark. A large number of comrades fell to the side, and the Emir was also hit by a rifle shell and fell to the ground.
A massacre was over, even more ironically. In the picture we see Karl, who was deported back to Germany, and who was also forced to get involved in the war. Invade your home in France as an invader.
The game is presented in a level format and consists of 4 chapters. Along the course of World War I, from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the Nivelle Offensive in 1917. The customs clearance time is about 5-6 hours.
The story is developed in the form of Four Ordinary People, Carl, Emile, Ferredi, Anna, and the Military Dog Walter. Through their intertwined fates in that war-torn era and the diaries they wrote, players can feel the powerlessness and despair of an ordinary person in the face of war.
I personally find the game interesting in that as World War I progresses, players will engage with characters in a number of famous battles. For example, the Battle of the Marne that can be encountered in Battlefield 1. For the first time, poison gas was used in the Second Battle of Ypres in warfare. At Reims Cathedral in France, defend against the attack of Zeppelin airships. The fierce German artillery at Verdun, as well as the soldiers on the Somme, for the first time combined with tanks to break through the defensive line.
Not only these battles, but also the producers also wrote an interesting story of wartime France into the game, when the enemy army was overwhelmed and the front line was seriously anxious. France has mobilized all vehicles such as trains that can be used to transport troops. But it still does not alleviate the problem of insufficient capacity. In order to quickly transport the rear soldiers to the front line, Paris summoned the Renault AG1 taxis that were still operating in the city, relying on this small car that could only carry 5 people, and transported a large number of troops and supplies to the front line one after another. The game truly restores the "taxi legend" at that time. With the various rhythmic points of the "Kang Kang Dance", it is a good display of a special experience of France in the war at that time.
The game is extremely good in music, using a lot of classical music to set off the atmosphere very well. "Hungarian Dance No. 5" and "Wild Bee Flying" combine various obstacle card points to even evolve the game into a music game.
The dialogue between the game NPCs is interesting, using a "look at the picture and speak" way. Sometimes it's easy to understand, sometimes it's a little confusing. For example, Freddie guides you to a target of shelling, and for a moment and a half you have to think about what he is saying. The game combines various real historical stories of the First World War, weapons and equipment, item details, etc., to depict the "war that ended all wars" to the player as much as possible. ”
Each campaign can also see the relevant real events encyclopedia and historical photos, players can through the game's war progression, combined with these historical materials to understand the story behind. Players can also find various collections in each level. The game is very meticulous in the collection and also adds a lot of encyclopedia. From these small objects, players can feel the humanistic style of that war era.
The game's decryption is well designed, but if you encounter a checkpoint, you can also use a very one-of-a-kind way, carrier pigeons, to provide you with a round of shelling. Oh no. Is a game tip. These carrier pigeons can fly in for a certain period of time and give you a photo of the "puzzle tip". In order to let players better experience the game.
Therefore, I personally highly recommend Braveheart: World Wars, and the game is available on mobile. If you're interested in this game, you might as well try it. It will take you back to the brutal world war from the perspective of a small person. It can also let you experience what is the game ending of "tears".
- The following contains endings and spoilers, please read with caution -
If you're not very interested in the game, or just want to know the plot, then let's tell you what kind of story the game tells.
The game intertwines the story lines of the four characters, step-by-step to put the player into that brutal war.
Freddie, who bid farewell to the Emile at the Gare de Paris, took part in the First Battle of the Marne. The black soldier showed extraordinary courage, using the wire-cutting tongs to continuously break the barbed wire fence, ensuring the smooth passage of the offensive route for the French army, and single-handedly blowing up the enemy's well-defended bridge, and winning the German flag to prove himself.
Winter came, and emil was wounded and taken prisoner, and was forced to serve as a cook to ensure food for the Germans. A German medic in the camp leads a military dog. After the emile had given the dog a little water, he went to the room to prepare food. At this moment, a footstep came, and I did not expect that the son-in-law Karl was expelled to serve in the German army. After the two embraced and reunited, the old man brought his son-in-law a letter from his wife Mary. The Germans had now occupied their homeland in France, and Mary was struggling with her young son. Although the situation was terrible, at least this family letter that could afford millions of dollars gave Carl a little comfort.
At this moment, the New Sharpel, for the first time, the British army adopted the tactic of fire suppression, and launched a fierce attack on the German positions with the infantry. After a fierce round of shelling, the position was severely damaged, and most of the German army was wiped out. The military dog named Walter dragged Emile out of the rubble. The emir, who had luckily regained a life, immediately became concerned about the safety of his son-in-law.
After finding a surviving German soldier, it was learned that Karl had been taken to a Zeppelin. Emile breathed a long sigh of relief, and the two once again dodged death's wielding scythe. In this way, the French prisoner of war and the German military dog have been dependent on each other ever since. They cooperated with each other to survive the war.
Freddie also followed the British in the attack on Neus Sharpele, braving heavy enemy fire and machine gun fire. After cooperating with the Commonwealth Indian soldiers to capture an artillery fortress, it saw a familiar figure in the distant trenches. It was the Emir who had relieved him of the siege in Paris, and he used his artillery to rescue Emir and Walter, who were in danger. Perhaps by fate, the two met again on the battlefield and later became close comrades-in-arms.
By April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres was launched, and the Germans used chlorine gas to launch the first poison gas war in human history. With Walter's help, Emir continued to unravel the enemy's poison gas offensive. However, the Germans also developed poison gas bombs, which cooperated with the Zeppelin airships to counterattack again. A large amount of deadly chlorine gas spread across the battlefield, and the two ran for their lives in the trenches, and just as they were about to explode, a girl driving a French taxi rescued them.
The three men and a dog not only escaped the air blows of the colossal shadows, but also escaped from the large labyrinth of trenches. Talking to the girl revealed that her name was Anna, and that at the beginning of the war she had received veterinary training and cared for the warhorses in the army. The Germans captured his father, a scientist, after invading Belgium. Baron von Dorff, the commander of the German front, forced her father to manufacture various weapons for the war. Anna was very anxious about this, and after using a taxi to take the French soldiers to the Front line of Marne in Paris, she was greeted by the battlefield full of corpses. The girl from Belgium had pure kindness and treated civilians, French soldiers, and even German soldiers equally. Constantly using their own beasts.... Veterinary knowledge to save lives. Until on the way to chase the baron, he saved the two people who were hiding from the poison gas.
In order to save Anna's father and find his son-in-law on the airship, the three track the Baron's airship to Reims, France, helping many civilians trapped in the bombing along the way, and on the cathedral in Reims, Freddie and the Baron had their first confrontation. Grenades were used to blow up the engines of the empty boats.
The Baron, sensing that the situation was unfavorable, forced Calla to take off his boat and flee.
The badly damaged airship crashed not far away, and the Baron disappeared. The three found the injured Carl in the crash site. However, after a brief reunion, they were surrounded by French soldiers searching for the wreckage.
Karl, who was a German soldier, was sent to a concentration camp in the rear, and Emile was sentenced to a military court for finding his son-in-law and not returning to the army. However, between the heroic performances at Lance, the court spared him punishment, but required him to return to the front line again.
By February 1916, the Battle of Verdun broke out. Even viewers who didn't know much about world war I knew what the place name "Verdun" represented. During the long 10 months, the German and French armies poured huge amounts of shells at each other. It caused more than 700,000 casualties, so the battle was also called the "Verdun Meat Grinder". The two fought valiantly with Walter, seizing enemy artillery positions and dealing a severe blow to the Germans. When the military top brass heard of their outstanding performance, they awarded them medals in recognition of their courage.
On 8 May 1916, Emir's squad was sent on a mission to retake the fortress of Douomon. The conversation at the beginning of this mission in which the officers discuss tactics is very "vivid and vivid". Three pictures will give you a clear explanation of a special operation. Originally, they just went to take down the fortress, but they did not expect to meet the target that the two had been pursuing, the baron. He is holding Anna's father hostage, using the cover of the fortress to secretly develop a heavy tank inside.
In pursuit of the protagonist and his party, the Baron uses the prototype car to resist and detonates explosives to destroy the entire fortress. A violent explosion buried them inside, leaving Emile alone to escape. With the germans coming to support, the task of capturing the fortress failed. In the ruins, Freddie remembered the person he loved dearly. He had a beautiful wife before the war, but on the day of their marriage in the church, the church was bombed by the German army due to the outbreak of war, and his wife was killed. In order to avenge his beloved, Freddie perked up in the ruins of the ruins. He took Walter to Anna's father. The Baron fled again, in order to rush out of the ruins. They repaired the prototype tank and went all the way out of the siege back to the French position. Emile and Freddie repeat it again and write to Anna to tell her father that she has been rescued.
Anna was very happy to receive the letter, and after Carl was sent to the concentration camp, she was carefully cared for by Anna, and her injured leg was restored. Carl was going to wait here until the end of the war to be reunited with his family. However, Mary's letter disturbed him very much, and his young son fell seriously ill. The mother and son duo had a hard time surviving under the control of the German army, let alone getting good medical treatment. Forced to be helpless, he teamed up with a companion, cut open the barbed wire and escaped. At the sacrifice of his companions, Carl swapped dog tags to confuse the pursuing soldiers, and finally escaped the great hunt.
At this moment, the First World War has been fought for two years, both sides have used trench warfare, and the barbed wire fence and no man's land have formed a situation of confrontation with each other. The ground offensive was difficult to launch, and both sides began to think about it underground. Tunnels were dug into each other's opposite directions, and when they dug under the enemy positions, huge amounts of explosives were buried directly at the end of the pot.
But everyone knows that the risk of digging these tunnels is very high, and the explosives are buried in the holes without being buried. The emir was therefore sent to rescue the soldiers in these operations. In the dark and complex cave, he used his shovel and Walter's keen sense of smell to save many of his comrades trapped in it. At that time, however, both sides were doing this, digging and digging possible collusion into the enemy's cave. Inside, Emile finds a German soldier who is also trapped. It was out of his conscience that he saved him. The two did not choose to kill, but helped each other to leave the collapsing cave at once.
Even when other Germans arrived, the brief friend helped the enemy Emir escape. If it weren't for the war, this experience between the two might have made them very good friends. However, it is even more regrettable that when the search and rescue mission is completed. The French detonated explosives into the German positions. The German friends that Emile had just made had disappeared into the dust.
While the French officers were celebrating the excellent blasting operation, only the Emir was so upset that he refused to be awarded the medal.
The war came in September 1916, in order to break the positional warfare that had been stalemated for two years. For the first time, the British used tanks to attack the enemy. Under the cover of tanks, the Allies broke through not only the enemy's defenses, but also defeated the Baron. Successive unfavorable battles led to the Baron being removed from his post and transferred from the front. And winter is coming again. Karl staggered against the wind and snow, constantly dodging the gendarmes who were searching in France, and rushed in the direction of home step by step.
He only hoped that his wife and son would hold out a little longer, but the extreme cold and hunger made him about to disappear in the snow and wind. It may be that his life should not be extinguished, fate left him with a surprise, Anna just happened to drive to meet Carl who was about to freeze to death and saved him. With Anna's help, he crossed many pursuits and finally reached his hometown of Saint-Mijel.
However, at this moment, Saint-Mijel was still in the hands of the Germans, and was captured by the Germans just after arriving, and the barracks in which his father-in-law participated in the training were now occupied by the Germans for training. After some interrogation, Carl not only did not return to his home. Due to the unfavorable situation of the war, he will once again be transferred to the front to prepare for combat.
The Allies counterattacked, and even the fighting broke out a few hundred meters from home. The flying of gas bombs has turned the once beautiful wheat fields into hell on earth. In the chaos of the battlefield, Carl took the opportunity to escape home. What Carl did not expect was that the family was unconscious due to the damage of chlorine, and Carl also fell down because he inhaled too much chlorine gas in the process of saving people, so lucky was really good, under the leadership of Walter, Anna also came in time to save the Carl family who were about to die of poison gas.
The United States was greatly angered by Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, coupled with the "Zimmerman Telegram" incident, so that the United States was about to join the team's deathmatch. Freddie received a letter from his brother and was likely to follow the United States into the war. There's a good chance that his brother might be part of the Haram Hell warrior corps in Battlefield 1, a group of blacks sent into the battlefield by the U.S. army.
On the other hand, thanks to the great victory at Verdun, the French prepared to launch the Nivelle Offensive on the Noble Ladies Trail. When Battlefield 1 first came out with this map a few years ago, I told you about this history. The Emir was also sent into the bloody massacre. Since the Germans had been entrenched in the area for two years, a large number of fortifications were constructed.
After the battle began on 16 April, a stalemate soon followed. In just a few days of fighting, the French army suffered tens of thousands of casualties. And the results obtained are only a little bit forward. Most of the French soldiers were slaughtered by barbed wire and various German machine gun artillery.
Despite the unfavorable conditions of the battle, the French general Nivelle still insisted that the soldiers attack. This once again forced tens of thousands of people into hell.
In the last level of the game, the fresh style of painting has faded, and only hand-drawn to create a bloody hell on earth. Emile and several of his teammates were forced to take part in the offensive. On the way to attack, the teammates around them died one after another under the German machine guns, but the French officers were still tough on the battle, allowing these soldiers to attack at the risk of death. Eventually the Emir couldn't take it anymore, and in the face of the angry officer in front of him, he picked up the shovel in his hand and slammed it at him.
Many soldiers mutinied, and eventually the French top brass reluctantly abandoned the offensive and ended the battle at a cost of 187,000 casualties.
The Emir, who was involved in one of the mutinies, looked at the fine sunlight outside the iron window and wrote a final letter for his daughter. An officer entered his cell at this moment and told him that the time had come.
What is a brave heart, a brave heart is not how many honors have been won in the war, how many enemies have been knocked down, but like Karl, Emile, Anna, Freddy, they have faced fierce artillery fire and merciless bullets. Even if they are unarmed, they still love every life, even if their clothes are stained with blood, they do their best to save every suffering soul, even if the things they did seemed a little "stupid" in that crazy era, but as the game says: "Every life saved is a small victory in this war." "Although they are the victims of war, they are also the immortal stars of war, the final salvation of humanity in the purgatory on earth. Just like the name of the game, may the brave and kind heart live forever in your and my heart.