Putting the cart before the horse, preorder incentives and promotional banners have spoiled the official reveal for the upcoming entry in the Battlefield series – which, oddly enough, will be titled Battlefield 1.
Pictures of retail signage posted on Reddit, as well as a premature posting on the Xbox Live Dashboard, leaked details on the game and its potential early 20th-century setting.
The promotional art for the numerically-challenged Battlefield features a burning zeppelin and a combat-ready figure wielding a trench club and what appears to be a Mauser C96 – an early semi-automatic pistol that saw use during WWI, indicating a possible timeshift from modern-day combat to The Great War.
While official word won’t drop until around 4pm EST today on Battlefield’s official web page, the chances of a WWI setting – or an alternate take on it à la BioShock Infinite, another zeppelin-loving, Mauser-wielding first-person shooter – are also backed up by the leaked preorder bonus itself.
The digital content for preordering the game (you don’t know anything about) is called “The Hellfighter Pack,” which reportedly contains items related to the historic 369th United States Infantry Regiment – better known as The Harlem Hellfighters, the United States’ …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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