“We make it as authentic as we can, but we make choices for the sake of fun when we have to. “As always, it is a Battlefield game first,” said Aleksander Grøndal, senior producer at DICE in Sweden, in an interview with GamesBeat. I got a good sense of how DICE walked a tightrope when creating the title, which was in research for two years before it was greenlit. I’m both of those, and I played through the campaign in the past couple of days and got my feet wet in multiplayer combat. 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. Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
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