![]() And so it has to get this kind of game right, particularly for all of the constituencies including hardcore shooter fans and history buffs. In some ways, EA is forging a new subgenre within the larger shooter umbrella. It is less about being historically accurate, and more about re-creating the visceral feeling of being in the war. EA took the risk of taking Battlefield in the direction of Grand Theft Auto with Battlefield Hardline, but Battlefield 1 has worked out far better, as DICE has produced a game that is worthy of the memory of The Great War, which claimed 17 million lives. ![]() Millions of fans will experience this kind of feeling when they play this first-person shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts when it debuts on October 21.ĮA took a lot of risks going backward in time, when the trend for shooter games was to shift from modern war to science fiction, as Activision has done with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. And that creates a touching remembrance for the “lost generation” of World War I. In the prologue, those soldiers don’t come back. It is a solemn reminder that real soldiers can’t be reborn and save the world like they do in so many video games. Whenever your character dies in Battlefield 1, you see a memorial message with the character’s full name, birth year, and the year of death.
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