Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass hands-on gameplay videos

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 13, 2017
Updated June 20, 2025
2 min

Battlefield 1’s first expansion pack, They Shall Not Pass, debuts on March 14 for Premium Pass users. I visited Electronic Arts’ headquarters to get a hands-on preview of the expansion, which brings the French army into the battle.

I played the game on the PC, along with a bunch of other press and influencers. For a few hours, we rotated through battles with the new fighting modes and maps. It was pretty hard to stay alive, but I really enjoyed the struggle. I’ve posted a number of the battles below as videos.

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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.