

Nicholas Bashore, one of our writers focusing on games, has been playing Battlefield 1 pretty extensively recently, so we decided to tackle the tricky subject together. The game seems to have at least seriously considered its setting as a narrative backdrop. There’s real history there and real loss.ĭICE seems to have taken this into consideration when crafting their epic WWI military shooter, and have incorporated plenty of real-life history into their fictionalization.

The trailer in turn looked as if it was turning a global tragedy into an action film. While it’s a novel setting, historically, World War I lacks the gloried narrative of World War II. When it was announced that Battlefield 1 would take place during World War I, there was some hesitation.
