Why I’m More Excited About Battlefield 1 Than Infinite Warfare

<p>I have been playing Activision&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> series for a very long time&comma; I remember joining the hype train when <em>Call of Duty 4&colon; Modern Warfare<&sol;em> came out&period; I spent countless hours in the multiplayer lobby rising rank after rank with my buddies&period; My fondness for these games has never really gone away&comma; but I grew weary of each title every year&period; Activision kept selling us slightly tweaked versions of <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> and we happily dropped our money on each title&period; I own every <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> game from<em> 3<&sol;em> all the way to <em>Black Ops III<&sol;em> and I&&num;8217&semi;ve played through them all&comma; which really makes me surprised that I&&num;8217&semi;m more excited for EA&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Battlefield 1<&sol;em> than <em>Infinite Warfare<&sol;em>&period; Now&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t get me wrong&comma; I also have played through all of the <em>Battlefield<&sol;em> games&comma; sans <em>Hardline&comma;<&sol;em> and enjoyed the campaigns &lpar;mostly <em>Bad Company<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s campaigns because those were flat out funny&rpar;&period; I enjoy both franchises immensely but EA has my interest piqued this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The future of warfare is starting to bore me&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;ve had a sweet exoskeleton that Kevin Spacey loaned me and I had new robot limbs attached to my body after a gentle mishap with a robot&period; Two games is enough&semi; I get that<em> Infinite Warfare<&sol;em> allows us to have space battles&comma; unlike a certain space themed game that came out last year&comma; and I can get behind that&period; However&comma; history is something that I&&num;8217&semi;ve always been obsessed with&comma; and World War I and World War II top that obsession&period; <em>Infinite Warfare<&sol;em> looks like a sequel to <em>Black Ops III<&sol;em> to me with the robot soldiers&comma; all the tech&comma; the huge walled in cites and so on&period; The trailer is extremely pretty and did pique my interest but what really got my heart pumping was when I saw Soap in gorgeous HD&period; I rarely buy special editions or limited editions&comma; but I might just have to so I can play the best <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> game again on my Xbox One&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"EeF3UTkCoxY" title&equals;"Official Reveal Trailer &vert; Call of Duty&colon; Infinite Warfare"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;EeF3UTkCoxY"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;EeF3UTkCoxY&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Official Reveal Trailer &vert; Call of Duty&colon; Infinite Warfare"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let us get back to history&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;m tired of being thrown into the future &lpar;technically we live in the future&rpar;&comma; and personally&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not too impressed&semi; history is where it is at&period; Before the <em>Battlefield 1<&sol;em> trailer&comma; there were only two games that I could think of where players could witness the horror of The First World War&period; The first one is the obvious one&colon; <em>Valiant Hearts&colon; The Great War&period; <&sol;em>The second not so obvious&colon; <em>The Darkness<&sol;em>&period; Let us talk about the second title first&colon; obviously <em>The Darkness<&sol;em> is a weird game to house a World War I level&comma; but it does&period; Basically the darkness takes Jackie into their minds as they heal him&semi; oddly enough their mind is trapped in World War 1 due to the fact that the first of Estacado&&num;8217&semi;s punishments was to relive his time in that war&period; The developers didn&&num;8217&semi;t skimp though&comma; I knew immediately I was stuck in the trenches&comma; trying to avoid mustard gas and staying out of the dreaded &&num;8220&semi;no man&&num;8217&semi;s land&period;&&num;8221&semi; After completing the level&comma; I knew that someone must create a game like this&comma; but with a fully realized and a full campaign&semi; thank you EA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The other World War I game that I played was not a first-person shooter&semi; it was a side scrolling puzzle game&comma; but I still fell in love with it&period; The tale is told through several characters whose stories intertwine and truly show the horrors of the First World War&period; You got to see first-hand how the torture of living in the tunnels was&comma; how at any moment a mustard gas attack could end your existence&period; The biggest draw to this title after I began to play it was the fact that it educated me on World War I&period; I knew a lot of tidbits about the war that I had read or watched on the History Channel&comma; but <em>Valiant Hearts<&sol;em> really did some research&period; Every time you find a certain item while playing you can look at it and read the history about it&period; At the beginning of each level&comma; you can also read about the zeppelins&comma; the mustard gas&comma; how the war began&comma; how it ended and so on&period; I know that <em>Battlefield 1<&sol;em> won&&num;8217&semi;t be insanely historical&comma; but hopefully it can peak the interest of a generation to learn about the war that tore the world apart&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"c7nRTF2SowQ" title&equals;"Battlefield 1 Official Reveal Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;c7nRTF2SowQ"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;c7nRTF2SowQ&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Battlefield 1 Official Reveal Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Battlefield 1<&sol;em> looks like that World War I game that I wished for after playing <em>The Darkness<&sol;em>&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s flamethrowers&comma; the first generation of tanks&comma; The Red Baron planes&comma; trench warfare&comma; and so much more&period; I honestly cannot wait to dogfight in those planes&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure I&&num;8217&semi;ll need some Dramamine&period; Hopefully I&&num;8217&semi;ll learn more about the war from this game&comma; like I learned quite a bit from playing <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed<&sol;em>&comma; and then went out and researched&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m also very curious how DICE are able to make the combat quick paced&semi; the weapons were not known for their accuracy&comma; speed or reliability&period; The tanks were death traps if they were stopped&comma; and the trench warfare had more hand to hand than anything&period; If they can pull this off&comma; this may be the title that dethrones <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> as the go-to shooter in the Fall&period; I know that I&&num;8217&semi;ll be getting a copy and visiting 1916 France&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;