Battlefield 1
Developer: EA, DICE
Rated M
Platform: Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC
Nominations: Studio/Direction, Sound design, Best action game, Best multiplayer
Battlefield 1 deserves that Best Action Game award. The competition is pretty fierce in the other categories, but quite frankly Battlefield 1 fits the Action award better than the other nominees. From War Stories to Operations, the grime and grit of World War I is front and center. So much so that the game even buckles under the weight of it. That weight is the real reason Battlefield 1 needs to win. In a pool of strong FPS titles, Battlefield 1 is the only one bold enough to give the subject at hand consideration past “Hey, wouldn’t this be cool to do?” Not every game should need to do that, but after years of homogenized brown and grey war shooters, a game willing to try to mean something more deserves recognition. Other awards in other entertainment mediums often reward the willingness to take difficult subjects head on. If The Game Awards want to start becoming more like those, it should choose to hold up Battlefield 1. If it does, the path will be opened up for even stronger contenders in the future. – Travis Hymas
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