

That smaller scale makes it a good way to get a bit of a Battlefield fix in advance of the new title, out in October. It was a download-only, lower-priced game designed as an alternative to the larger-scale 1942, which was still a fairly risky move for a major publisher to take at the time. This is a game that came out with a unique concept. The matches aren't quite as big as what the series is working with now: maximum size is 24 players, down considerably since Battlefield: 1942. Next on our list of the best military and war games for Xbox is Rainbow Six: Siege.

The game carefully recreates weapons, military vehicles and the atmosphere of that era, while demonstrating really massive clashes of numerous soldiers, tanks and aircraft with artillery and naval support. It's also now part of the EA Access Vault, so EA Access subscribers get it for free.īattlefield 1943 is, like the upcoming Battlefield 5, a vehicle and infantry-based war simulator set in World War 2. Enlisted is a squad-based first person MMO shooter covering key battles from World War II.

As with all backwards compatibility titles, you can play the thing for free if you've got a disc lying around, or you can pay $9.99 in the Xbox marketplace. EA originally released the game in 2009 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, coming just on the tail end of when World War 2 dominated the shooter market: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare had changed the game just two years before. Battlefield 1943 just became available on Xbox One through Microsoft's backwards compatibility program, the company announced today.
