https://youtu.be/c7nRTF2SowQ


So Dice is making my dreams come true by making the next Battlefield game set in WWI. Tanks, dog fights, ZEPPELINS!


My favorite scenes were the gas scene, the Aribic horseman guys, and the dog fights. Though I was quite impressed with the whole thing. October isn't getting here fast enough!

I'll pass this one, WWI doesn't interest me as a setting at all.

Well, Im extremely happy Battlefield didnt follow the crappy Call of Duty rhoute and go extremely far into the future. Honestly, just happy to see a past setting again.


Not a huge fan of these fps type games but World War 1 sounds pretty awesome.

Well, that music was sure fitting.


Regardless it's interesting and refreshing to see this kind of setting these days in what seems like a genre over saturated with either a modern warfare, near future, or futuristic setting.


I think a better developer to do a WWI game would have been Tripwire Interactive considering how good the Red Orchestra games and Rising Storm was. But I'm already a fan of Battlefield as well, so I suppose I will keep an eye on it.


Quite curious how the gameplay will be in a WWI setting. Will there be a game mode for sitting in muddy trenches all day? Can we die of disease?

Easy there Charon you're drooling . Anyway I'm looking forward to it, it's about time someone did a WW1 game .

Lol sorry bout that. But the scene where the gas pops and the mask comes up, and the trenches..... AND THE ZEPPELIN!!!

http://riseofflight.com/

Zeppelins included.

This actually piques my interest a bit. I'm not sure it'll have mass appeal though.

That's because Battlefield already went to the future in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_2142.

Damn ready for this.

I'm conflicted

As a history lover, I usualy don't tend to enjoy studying wars so I think it says something when I say that WWI is my exception. I find The Great War fascinating and have researched that entire period obsessively.

Like Charon, I'm glad to see SOMEONE attempting a WWI game, but...man that trailer did not convey what The Great War was about at all. It looks like typical Battlefield shenanigans. Bear in mind that WWI was not a glorious war, it was not a WWII style war of heroes and villains. It was a war that shattered the psyche of western civilization, virtually everyone involved was responsible for its outbreak, and it proved to the traditional 19th Century military structures that war had changed into a brutally horrific, disturbingly efficient tool of murder and annihilation.

worse yet it wasn't even balls-to-the-wall exciting. For most soldiers, your life was in a trench, waiting out each day as artillery shells bombarded your line and you witlessly cowered hopping you wouldn't get blown to bits. This was your routine until one day, your commanding officer suddenly shouted at you to "go over the top" whereby you'd be subjected to intense turret fire and most likely get your head blown off.

Those Arabic cavalry, tanks, and even the Bi-Planes were miniscule additions to the war machine, in fact, by 1917 the cavalry units were no longer in use, and Bi-Planes only engaged in dog-fights when their cover was blown attempting to spy on the enemy line. That's not to say thety weren't extremely useful, they were, but not in the Hollywood style way we think. The tank, tough, was an extremely useful addition, but again, it wasn't this explosive dynamo we think it was. It broke down constantly, would move quite slowly, and often times got tangled up in debris.

WWI you could say was the ultimate War of Attrition. It was definitely one of the messiest wars because we had old school leaders trying to fight using old war tactics against new technologies where offensive strategy and technology had not caught up yet, most of it was defensive (one of the few times in history).


Is this a dramatization? Obviously yes. Hopefully there is some realism involved, but at the same time if you made game strictly about the main fighting of the war, it would be boring.

Zeppelins make everything grand...which means Guns of Icarus is the godsend of gaming .

The tank was such a good idea that was so badly executed: there are so many examples of "what on earth were they thinking?!" with the early marks of the British tanks, from putting the engine in the crew compartment, resulting in the leaky valves and exhaust poisoning the crew, to the very easily-ruptured petrol tanks in the forward facing "horns" of the tracks. Bizarre. Still, at least they decided to dispense with the originally planned turret on the basis that it would've made it too tall and unstable, which some contemporaries didn't get quite right.

It was also a rather bizarre mix of old and new technology, being the epitome of a new form of warfare but still using carrier pigeons for communications.

And the stuff with the cavalry was rather sad, setting out with the mistaken assumption that machine gunners would not fire upon gentlemen. Obviously they did, with typically nasty effect.

definitely, WWI completely shattered the preset notions of honor and chivalry in war. The kind of brutality that was seen in WWI had been seen in previous wars, such as the Boer War of 1903, the Spanish-American war/Phillipine conflict and the Russo-Japanese war, but in those cases "Western Civilization" tended to see that as "keeping down the natives" or "putting a weak power in its place". WWI was the first time two "gentrified" nations who were wholly convinced of their superiority on the global stage engaged in the kind of brutal war-tactics that was usually reserved for colonial expansion (and kept out of the public eye)

the mix of old tactics with new technology didn't help. No one saw the effectiveness of mustard gas coming, at the start of the war soldiers had to improvise a lot, many instances involving them urinating on a rag or paper and putting that up to their mouth and nose since it dampened the effects on mustard gas. The entire French Army was dressed in their traditional, Napoleonic uniforms at the outset and got their troops utterly ravaged. The very early tanks weren't even tanks as the later part of the war potrays them, they were just prototypes involving repurposed tractors with turrets or gunners.

I suppose if you wanted a more action oriented WWI game you SHOULDN'T set it on the Western Front. Most of us know about the trenchlines of the French border, but the eastern front saw a lot more movement. Not to the extent of WWII, but it didn't reach the kind of stalemate that France and Germany saw.

Looks better than COD's watered down cyberpunk future.

WWI here I come!

Oops my mistake - it's http://www.overflandersfields.com/requirements.html that has https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYcuOLVeK10, as a mod, not Rise of Flight.

I won't be buying the game, my Dad spoiled the story for me .

I think it'd be fun storming no man's land, conducting night raids on enemy trenches, flying biplanes, and driving tanks while your comrades take cover behind you. You know, without having to worry about actually dying.

I'm actually quite offended by this tbh. Even more so if it's prominently features Americans.

I just find this whole idea in appallingly bad taste. Sure, Toy Soldiers was WW1, but it wasn't trying for realism. This, on the other hand, is kind of sickening in how it's trivialising the worst war in human history bar none.

I think the people who came up with this idea should be shot with faeces. It's a [censored] disgrace!

I'm not sure it's any worse than the bunches of WWII games that have been made, but you certainly have strong feelings about this. Here's hoping that people gain an appreciation for what those guys went through during that awful, but I think often forgotten, war.

I recently saw an article in the Washington Post, I think, which claimed that WWI was pretty much an outright American victory. I was quite astonished.

Nearly every game that contains violence trivialises it. So i don't think you can point out this particular game without pointing out 90% of video games. For example -

• The flames spell in Skyrim is a bit like a flamethrower. You are literally burning the flesh off your opponents, trivialising the suffering of burn victims.


• Fallout trivialises the prospect of Atomic warfare. People often lived in fear of a nuclear war during the Cold war and people in Hiroshima actually suffered a nuclear attack. That is trivialising an extremely painful and nasty element of modern warfare.

Can't tell if you're serious and EASILY offended, or if your joking. Why the hell is world war 1 triggering you? Numerous other games have done different wars but those are fine?