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Are you a Battlefield 1 gamer? Hi there, today's topic is just for tough guys :P (I'm kidding). Battlefield 1 is a PS4 game which takes place in the World War I. What are you supposed to do? Just kill the enemies! Actually it's not that simple: you have to conquer the objectives (the flags), the areas and defend them at all costs! There are other funny and engaging modes which test your military capabilities; for instance the TEAM DEATHMATCH which consists in killing more soldiers than the enemy team; the WAR PIGEONS which asks you to locate the pigeons (which are supposed to send a massage to the allies) and get them, once you get' em just release the pigeons and win the match. You fight in different nations all over the world, from the italian Alps to the Sinai desert, from the Germany to the Russia and more ...You can count on a big arsenal which consists in machine guns, rifles, bombs and more... My favourite rifle is the SMLE MKIII CARABINE, you can kill one soldier with only one shot and you can recharge easily, amazing! My favourite machine gun is the PERINO MODEL, the control of this weapon is simply insane: you can shoot 10 bullets and it doesn't move itself at all. I honestly love this game, it's very difficult and sometimes frustrating because you die quickly, but you just have to stay focused, breathe and pull the trigger! Thanks in advance for the review.[emoji]

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There is not a lot wrong with this.

Are you a Battlefield 1 gamer?

Hi there, today's topic is just for tough guys :P (I'm kidding).

I would avoid using emojis in a piece of writing like this. They're OK in social media, but you normally won't see them used in more professional writing and that includes game reviews in magazines or more reputable websites.

Battlefield 1 is a PS4 game which takes place in the World War I.

World War I was the name of the conflict; you therefore don't use "the" in front of it. You will use "the" when it's in front of a word that serves purely as an adjective; for example "the Vietnam War", where "Vietnam" describes which war you're talking about. Similarly in English World War I is sometimes known as "The Great War" (the name entered use before anyone knew that worse was to come). Isn't "World" and adjective here? Yes and no. "World War" is an exception to the rule; it has come to function as a two word noun. The number after it describes which war you're referring to.

What are you supposed to do? Just kill the enemies! Actually it's not that simple: you have to conquer the objectives (the flags), and the areas and defend them at all costs!

There are two things that you need to capture; areas and flags. It's a list of things. You therefore need "and" before the last item in the list. You do have "and" after that but that is not part of the list of objectives; it's something additional that you need to do.

There are other funny and engaging modes which test your military capabilities; for instance the TEAM DEATHMATCH which consists of in killing more soldiers than the enemy team; the WAR PIGEONS which asks you to locate the pigeons (which are supposed to send a massage messages to the allies) and get them, and once you get' em them just release the pigeons them and win the match.

1/ "The team deathmatch" is OK if you're distinguishing it from other types of deathmatches. ("The" indicates one specific type out of a number of them.) On the other hand "War Pigeons" would be the name of a scenario; like World War I it would not have a specifier like "the" in front of it. 2/ I've noticed that a lot of native Italian speakers have problems with this one; something always "consists of" other things. 3/ There was a spelling mistake in "message" but also the pigeons would send multiple messages, not just one. 4/ "'em" is too informal for writing unless you are using it to describe how someone was speaking. 4/ It was clear that we were talking about "the pigeons". Using the noun a second time just made it sound awkward.

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Part 2; please read part 1Are you a Battlefield 1 gamer?

You fight in different nations all over the world, from the Italian Alps to the Sinai desert, from the Germany to the Russia and more .

1/ You always capitalise national descriptions (like Italian) in English. 2/ There are very few country names which have have "the" in front of them in English. In Italian you will have to use l'Italia in some cases, but in English it is always just "Italy", never "the Italy". The exceptions are usually island groups like "The Solomon Islands". The only exception that I can think of to that is "The Sudan" and formerly "The Lebanon", though that went out of use about 50 years ago. 3/ Avoid ending sentences with ellipses (the three dots); it makes them sound like an incomplete thought.

You can count on a big arsenal which consists in of machine guns, rifles, bombs and more many others. My favourite rifle weapon is the SMLE MKIII rifle CARABINE, you can kill one soldier with only one shot and you can recharge reload easily, amazing!

1/ Consists of (rather than in) was explained earlier. 2/ "And more" at the end of the sentence was OK in itself but it's better not to end two sentences with the same words. 3/ The first use of rifle is OK; the only reason I changed it is that we need to reuse the word shortly. 4/ And that's because the word "carabine" does not exist in English. "Carbine does, but the SMLE Mk III was not a carbine, it was a rifle. (A carbine is a shortened rifle with an automatic or semi automatic action.) You would have translated the word "carabina". I don't know whether the Italian military uses that for both rifles and carbines, but in English there is a difference. 5/ You recharge a battery, but you reload a rifle.

My favourite machine gun is the PERINO MODEL 1908. The control of this weapon is simply insane: you can shoot 10 bullets and it doesn't move itself at all.

1/ "Model" by itself doesn't mean anything without the name of the model as well. In this case I assume you mean the model 1908. (I've never played the game, but that's the real life one that was around at the time.) 2/ You can't launch into what is effectively a completely separate sentence like that. I've therefore broken it up.
I honestly love this game, it's very difficult and sometimes frustrating because you die quickly, but you just have to stay focused, breathe and pull the trigger!
Thanks in advance for the review.[emoji]

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Review please? :)

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