"Broken and bleeding, he crawled towards me. Packs of rats circled him, eager for his last breath, but he kept moving. Through the muck and the mud of the trenches, midst the ceaseless ersatz thunder of artillery, he dragged what was left of his failing body until a stray shell claimed him. I kept going, terrified I might be next.
World War I is no place for a blockbuster game. The braggadocio and bombast of the modern shooter is antithetical to the creeping, indiscriminate death of the Great War. Outmoded tactics and the inhuman steel and oil of modern machinery have given the era a moribund reputation. In the shredded countryside of France and the shifting sands of the fading Ottoman Empire, the glory of the old wars died. The fighting was ceaseless, a fetid cocktail of starvation, disease, chemical weapons, and incessant shelling that gave no meaning to the lives lost there.
Against all odds, Battlefield 1 understands that tension, and opens its tutorial with a solemn note: "What follows is frontline combat… you are not expected to survive."
And, indeed, if you die in the opening scene, you don't pop back to life a couple seconds later, as you might in any other game. Instead, the screen goes black, and white text slowly materializes showing a unique name and a pair of dates. "Otto Johnson, 1895-1918" was my first. Then I shifted to another hapless soul somewhere else on the field. It's disorienting, and it demonstrated how disposable human life was during the war.
Released October 21 for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 Battlefield 1 shuffles through several of these kinds of stories. Each of them is a vignette, separately addressing different faces and locales in the war. The tutorial area follows Harlem's Hellfighters, a renowned infantry regiment consisting of Black and Puerto Rican soldiers who never lost a foot of ground. The others follow everyone from Lawrence of Arabia to a band of Italian elite troops known as the Arditi…"
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