Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 is a shooter from the Swedish studio DICE on the Frostbite 3 engine, released on 21 October 2016 on Origin and on 11 June 2020 on Steam. The setting is World War I (1914-1918): the only big-budget shooter of the modern era about this war. In 2026 the multiplayer holds 5-10 thousand concurrent players on Steam at EU/NA prime time, and matchmaking in Conquest and Operations is instant.

Multiplayer: Conquest (32 vs 32, capturing points on large maps), Operations (a multi-round attack on historically accurate WW1 battles: the Somme, Verdun, the Brusilov Offensive), Frontlines (a hybrid of Conquest and Rush), Domination (infantry, small maps), War Pigeons (capturing a carrier pigeon to call an air strike). Four classes: Assault, Medic, Support, Scout. Mechanics distinctive to the era: horse cavalry, bayonet charges, gas attacks with a gas mask.

World War I vehicles: the British heavy tank Mark V "Black Bess", the German A7V, the French super-heavy Char 2C (50 t, 26 crew members), the armored car Putilov-Garford and the Ilya Muromets bomber of the Russian Empire, the fighters Sopwith Camel and Albatros D.III, the dreadnoughts HMS Iron Duke and SMS Bayern in naval battles, and the L-30 Zeppelin airships.

The single-player campaign has 6 War Stories (~8-10 hours), each about a separate character on different WW1 fronts: the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) on the Western Front; tank driver Danny Edwards at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917; RAF pilot Clyde Blackburn over France; the Italian Arditi, Luca Cocchiola in the Alps; ANZAC runner Frederick Bishop at Gallipoli; and the Bedouin Zara Ghufran in Lawrence's Arabian campaign. Metacritic score: 89 points. Most of the characters die, an anti-war message in the spirit of the original.

The Russian localization is complete (Full Audio level): War Stories campaign voice-over, multiplayer lines, interface, subtitles, all in Russian. This is rare among major shooters in 2026: Battlefield V has partial voice-over, and Battlefield 6 has no Russian at all. Russian-language reviews on Steam are "Very Positive" (12,002 reviews).

Premium Edition includes 4 expansions: "They Shall Not Pass" (the French army, 4 maps, the Char 2C tank); "In the Name of the Tsar" (the Russian Empire + the Red Army, 6 maps: Galicia, Volga, Tsaritsyn, Albion; the first playable women in the Battlefield series, the Women's Battalion of Death); "Turning Tides" (naval battles, Gallipoli, destroyers and torpedo bombers); "Apocalypse" (Passchendaele, a night Zeppelin raid on London, the Trench Raiders mode). Buying the DLC separately costs more than the Premium Edition in a single key.

2016 technical requirements: GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7850, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB HDD. On modern hardware (RTX 3050 / RX 6600), a steady 144 FPS on Ultra at 1080p. HDD is supported.

Battlefield 1 is a multiplayer shooter by DICE, released in 2016 and set during World War I: up to 64 players on large maps, Conquest and Operations modes, bayonet charges, horse cavalry, airships, Mark V and Char 2C tanks, and poison gas. Full Russian voice-over, subtitles and interface (Steam Full Audio). The single-player campaign consists of 6 War Stories (~8-10 hours). Premium Edition includes 4 DLC. Activation through EA App.