Dat Battlefield 1 in de Eerste Wereldoorlog afspeelt mag een klein wonder heten. Electronic Arts was het namelijk helemaal niet eens met deze setting. Patrick Söderlund, vice-president van EA Studios, heeft toegegeven dat hij eerder weinig vertrouwen had in het idee van Dice.
It wasn’t the most obvious choice. If you look at what other partners in the industry are doing, they’re going into sci-fi. We’ve had a lot of success in the modern military space. But we felt like there was a need for a change. When the team presented the idea to me of World War I, I absolutely rejected it. I said, World War I, it’s trench warfare, it can’t be fun to play.
The team continued and persisted in the fact that this can be fun, and showed up with a very short demo that convinced me at least that this was the right path.
Of er toekomst zit in het verleden weten we op 21 oktober. Dan ligt Battlefield 1 in de winkels.
