Battlefield 1's flamethrower in action.
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Vintage warfare: Battlefield 1’s vehicles, weapons, and settings

Electronic Arts unveiled Battlefield 1, set in World War I (which the series has never done before). But that doesn’t mean you’ll spend all of your time shooting rifles at the enemy from the protection of a trench.

The weapons, vehicles, and settings will have enormous variety, based on a press briefing today in which EA talked about the military first-person shooter for the first time. In an interview, lead designer Danny Berlin confirmed that this new Battlefield won’t have “alternate history” with modern weapons in the old setting. Rather, he said, everything is rooted history, as the Great War is rich with technical innovations in warfare.

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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.