Sure, you and your teammates are focused on gaining control of the capture points, but you'll also be gripped by fear and excitement as you're stalked by an enemy tank, launching rocket after rocket at it, each time diving to the side to escape by the skin of your nose until you duck into a building and pause to take a breath of relief. Part of the magic of Battlefield 4 is the constantly shifting perspective between the big overall battle and your smaller personal battles. You can run across the battlefield, ducking in and out of cover, or you can board a helicopter, hop on the minigun, cut enemies to shreds, then hop off the gun and repair the helicopter while in flight. And you can fight anywhere and any way you want.
Battles lines appear to stretch on for miles across both land and sea. Landscapes are gorgeous, combat is engrossing, and the scale of destruction is tremendous. Battlefield 4 is a game where you'll occasionally want to stop and take a look at the world around you. There is also a deep powerful feeling that captures the awe of destruction so often found in combat. To be as clear as a squad leader can be, do not buy this game if you're looking for a solid FPS campaign mode. Short and frustrating do not make for a good story mode. The story also involves a number of heavily scripted sequences that revolve around your character making poor decisions that you'd never make as squad leader. It is frustratingly on-rails, and gameplay is literally "move here and shoot this." The story involves the Tombstone squad, a team of marines sent into mainland China to extract VIPs shortly after a bloody coup attempt.
Williams (Omar from The Wire), campaign mode is little more than a four to six hour tutorial teaching you how to play the game. When it comes to evaluating any title in the Battlefield franchise, it's important to remember that the only reason anyone plays campaign mode is to unlock new weapons in multiplayer.