Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Joining me today, we have freelance Reiner, Fraser Brown. Hello. And we're also joined by our

friend, PC gamers, Evan Lottie. Hey there. So as we get into the annual winter of wargaming

here at 3MA, I want to take a quick detour into shooters once again,

which I'm not sure we've really covered since Evan was on the show to talk about Red Orchestra

2 Rising Storm. Being completely honest here, the reason this is coming back up is there was

simply like no way in hell that we did that a world war one shooter

like battlefield one uh was not going to make it on to this show uh you know it's it's the war i

probably am most interested in and also like there were a lot of early comparisons uh to bad company

too uh when battlefield one came out so i've been really excited to try this game out and also, you know, to talk about it with

people.

But I think what intrigued me the most about Battlefield 1, even when I first heard about

it, is that World War I always seemed like kind of impossible territory for a shooter to really

succeed in. And I think that's, you know, to start out, like, I think it's probably just the

idea we have about these conflicts, right? Like, the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor Games,

you know, they kind of brought this whole genre into being, at least in its present form.

And I think they were kind of all inspired by World War II.

They were kind of inspired by World War II movies.

No, in many cases, they were like shot for shot ripping off World War II movies.

And like these visions of like individual heroism that you find in a lot of those movies, right?

Like, despite the fact that, like, World War II was an awful, like, terribly bloody war,

it doesn't have this, it has a better reputation, I guess, than World War I.

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