With a confusing name and surprise setting that certainly shakes up the relatively conservative FPS genre, Battlefield 1 marks a shift in direction for the popular franchise. EA, on the other hand, is turning back the clock on Battlefield. Battlefield's main competitor, Activision's Call of Duty franchise, keeps marching onward into the future by augmenting soldiers with nanotechnology and powered exoskeletons in settings that have more in common with the Halo universe than a history textbook. It's an interesting twist to say the least.
Occurring before EA's Battlefield 1942, which came out in 2002, this new entry is the earliest wartime game in the shooter series. Battlefield 1, which publisher Electronic Arts unveiled today on a global Twitch stream, is set during World War I. The newest game in the Battlefield franchise is also the first, chronologically speaking.
