War game: Battlefield 1 incorporates war pigeons into both multiplayer and singleplayer modes.
Bird mode
Discovered thanks to an advanced preview made available to the publisher's Xbox One and PC subscription scheme membership, one particular mission in the game's single-player story requires players to become a carrier pigeon.
Ferrying a message from a lead character's hemmed-in tank, the pigeon in question has to make it over trench and artillery fire back to base, calling in a barrage before it's too late.
