There’s so much to pull from in WWI that would have to be invented for a fictional war, but probably wouldn’t be (let’s just add some more holographic sights and say North Korea did it, shall we?). As a light example, imagine the echoing crack of a Maschinengewehr 08 and how frightening the machine gun must have been to a British army that owned hardly any of them at the start of the war. Maybe Battlefield 1 will make machine guns fairly rare, defensive weapons, or require multiple players to operate them. I doubt it, but I’m still looking forward to seeing how DICE interprets WWI, with all its slow-firing Mausers, artillery strikes, biplanes, and long, exhausting battles. It may not be how I’d interpret it, but I’ll be happy if the limitations imposed by the past inspire creativity beyond what we’ve seen since Battlefield escaped history.