‘BATTLEFIELD 1’ GAMEPLAY TRAILER

“Over 60 million men fought in ‘The War to End All Wars.’ They ended nothing.” How’s that for an opening line of a war game? We reviewed the open beta of Battlefield 1, which comes out October 21. But the single-player gameplay looks like something else entirely, as shown by the premise of the first level, in which you die as a number of different characters during a slaughterous charge. It’s stark illustration that, as the narrater muses, “In war, the only true equalizer is death.”