A spectacular tank explosion in Battlefield 1 multiplayer. See the horse jumping over the exploding tank?
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Battlefield 1 multiplayer impressions: It’s tough to survive in your first match

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Battlefield 1 is here at long last — for some of us. I played my first multiplayer match on the Xbox One as the first servers went live.

This game is one of the biggest titles from Electronic Arts and its DICE studio since the Battlefield franchise was born in 2002. The developers took the risk of leaving the familiar modern war environment for the novelty of World War I. It’s an epic game that spans many different environments, such as Saudi Arabia and the French Alps. It captures the horrors of war, including fighting hand-to-hand in the trenches and pitched tank battles.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.