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Easily, for me, the most chilling opening to any FPS war game.

The worst things to see were the ones who died when they were only 18 or 19

Gotta love how it says at the beginning "You are not expected to survive"... Really shows how the war was... a slaughterfest.

One of subtle details that makes this so great are the few German soldiers you don't see fighting. They're just standing there, shell shocked , obvious to their hellish surroundings.

Fun fact: if you replay the chapter again the name for you dying changes randomly.

Battlefield: _"we are the jaded and we are the naïve, we are the honorable and the criminal..."_ Call of Duty: hehe robot

War isn't about who's right it's about who's left.

One thing that BF1 did in this game unlike most shooters, is that it showed how the war you play in was not fun and games for those involved whatsoever

This is one of my favorite openings for a game. When you die, you don’t respawn and try again, you go to another guy and you realize everyone you play as is on borrowed time and will get to you eventually. While the rest of the campaign and multiplayer was good, this was the highlight of the game imo.

World War One was truly a horrific war. Never before was a war fought on such scale with such sophisticated weaponry. There were flamethrowers, tanks, air planes, chemical weapons, and machine guns pitted against old school tactics.

Props to those Voice actors. Those screams of fear, fury, terror, and agony were chilling.

Dream a Little Dream of Me was not published until 1931. This implies that the soldier in the cutscene survived the war, and is probably at his home back in the US about 14 years later, and is still suffering from PTSD. Also implies that the first mission is a past memory. And even that the reason he knows the names and year of birth of those killed in this battle may be because they were his friends who did not survive.

Fun fact: The names of the soliders you play as, where thr names of real people from the war. Hell of a way to honor them

“You are not expected to survive” Actual chills

They opened it with a POV from a “Harlem Hellfighter.” Kinda respectful, they never lost a foot of ground, took no prisoners.

1:02 is the most terrifying part of the game for me when the fighting gets so close you have fight them off with your bare hands it just shows how hard a person will go to survive

I remember I got this for my 14th birthday and after or before the cake, (don’t remember), my friends sat down and watched me play the intro. During the first cutscene, all of us were silent, impressed and intrigued by the horror of this game. A time I will always remember.

The attention to detail is truly amazing, at 7:13 I bet you didn't notice the German soldier who is almost walking like a zombie back towards his line......yep he's shell shocked, soon after he gets gunned down by the player. It really shows how the war brought out the worst in us, but it also brought out the best

Battlefield 1: *shows the dark reality of WW1 and the meaning of wars Battlefield V: HEHE BADASS AMPUTEE WITH BLUE FACEPAINT LETS GOOOOOOO

I Love how you can play as many other soldiers after death. Very Unique.

8:15 "We're gonna make it!" *explodes*

I was very sad when I found out that the whole campaign wasn't built up like this

Lets take a moment to appreciate how well the uploader did playing the game. Really helped maintain viewer immersion.

All this from one guy eating an egg sandwich and an Uber taking a wrong turn

When I first played the prologue no lie I was really starting to tear up especially when the two soldiers were deciding whether or not to shoot each other and the speech afterwards

Definitely an eye-opener and a powerful opening scene. A lot of FPS games forget that combat is a nightmare to live through.

The brutality of war can be seen very clearly in ww1 imagine you're almost feet away from the enemy and out of bullets having to resort to using rocks of pieces of sheet metal you find on the floor.

Honestly, from an artistic standpoint, this is one of the most effective openings to a game, or even a fucking movie, that I have ever seen. It conveys such emotion. When I first played through this, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor because I wasn't expecting such depth from a game from the BF franchise. War is Hell.

7:09 I couldn't kill that guy who's sitting and covering his ears, it was too hard for me.

11:25 to 12:39 it always gives me goosebumps

No tutorial, no long opening cutscene, no anything. It just throws you right into the thick of it. One of, if not, the best war game I think I’ve ever played

This has got to be the best tutorial mission in gaming. It's not a tutorial for gameplay; it's a tutorial for the brutality of WW1.

This mission isn't a game, it's a masterpiece. I can think of no better 15 minute lesson in WW1 and how horrifying it was.

What I really like about this first mission is that it destroys the myth that war is survivable, which is often indirectly supported by fps games. It doesn't matter how skilled you are in the first few sections, no matter how many lives you take, you will die, and there was never anything you could've done about it.

The war is the world and the world is the war But every behind on a gun sight is a human being We are those people We are the jaded we are the naive We are the honorable and the criminal We are bound for legend and lost to history We are knights in the sky We are ghost in a desert And rats in a mud This is our stories

Despite its historically inaccurate guns, this is one of the greatest opening to a war game ever. It makes the point up front that you are not the action hero, you are one of the nameless millions bound for the grave marching into pure hellish bloodshed. You won’t survive. It is brilliant and very true to the unrelenting nature of World War 1 and war as a whole. The detail of the shell shocked German soldiers found in the fields is also brilliantly horrifying. They just stumble almost unaware to the world around them. Dazed in some twisted sense of peace. This of course is seconds before they are killed. Thank you dice, for this amazing and terrible opening.

Margot Bingham - Dream A Little Dream Of Me. Just put it there in case anyone was wondering.

Girls locker room: “omg PE is so dumb! How’s your boyfriend?” Boys locker room: 0:35

Probably one of the greatest openings to any shooter I have seen in a long time. Usually, there are scenes like this in other games that merely just flip the narrative up on its head in order for the player to continue playing along without dissonance. They are usually made out to be a one man army, and thus they feel they are because the game reinforces that fact. Not here. It's clear from the moment that you are thrown back into the flashback that you are not special. You are not the savior of mankind, you are not a super human, you are not the hero. You are nobody. You are just another soldier that is about to become a statistic in a field where millions of others share that same fate. You are not expected to survive.

The music in the background is just incredible. It really gave me the chills because it represents the physiological trauma the soldiers are going through at the young ages shown. I just love this opening because not many games depict war like this game does. The music, the setting, the detail, and everything about this opening sets the bar really high for the rest of the game.

8:39 from here to the end really stuck out to me. The music score combined with the zeppelin falling from the sky on fire, the the flame thrower troopers and gas while artillery goes off everywhere just illustrates the chaos of trench warfare so terribly well.

I’ve played battlefield 1 probably a million times for countless hours but his is still just a kickass opening cinematic!

"But behind every gunsight, is a human being" that hit me hard.

That agonizing scream in the background 1:08 really hits you

"You are not expected to survive" really gave me chills

This in real life is why you pay respect to the tomb of the unknown soldier

Fucking Chills every time i watch this. '60 million soldiers fought and died' 'it solved nothing' appreciate and respect your elders, this isn't even a chip off what they experienced. (obv ww2)

In the last part, after the tank Instead of fighting I decided to just stand in the middle of everything and decided to just watch everything of course I fought at the end but during those very few minutes of standing I just thought "Wow, war is hell on earth"

Second. Also haven't seen such a deep and thoughtful story in such games before

1:35 When it's your first day of school and the P.E. teacher makes you do Freshmen vs. Senior dodgeball

7:07 that german curled up really hits home. First time I saw that I felt my eyes watering up

Bruh

I remember being stunned at how serious the campaign was at the beginning, it set an entirely different tone for the game and I really appreciate how DICE decided to make the campaign opening so grim to remind us that unlike several of the previous Battlefield installments, this one was based on a real war, where real people fought and died.

omg this was an amazing Opening to a game i have not seen this in forever. the story looks powerful and the Music was bad ass as well i am calling this now Battlefield to be the game of the year 2016 in more than 1 area

Why did ya have to kill the guy just walking near 7:00 I get its just a game, but fuck man show some mercy

A detail, I only noticed 6 years later was, that we see at 7:23 one of the crewmembers of the destroyed Male Mark V tank, walking out on fire

11:22 Thi...really shouldn't have made me feel feels, but it did.

Play the game with the hud off... its amazing

I like how this mission tells us there are no real heroes

This really makes you give an immense respect to soldiers, no matter what military you're apart of. This was an amazing song choice as well, Dream and Little Dream of Me is a classic.

2:10 damn it must have felt horrible for those soldiers hearing that whistle, they knew trouble was coming

1:37 That is probably the heaviest shit you could ever read in real life or in a video game

Parents: Aww, they're digging tunnels in the snow How the kids saw it: 0:34

The sound design, the music. Oh my

Greatest first few minutes I’ve ever seen of a game, I can feel the impact at 0:48

11:25 Me and the snail 10^103857 years into the future on the last part of habitable space staring down each other as the last protons decay

Id like to meet the man who said "videogames aren't art."

This in beautyfull that they show humanity in every soldier. Humans that have fellings and aren't mindless robots like shown In cod games.

Easily one of my most favourite FPS missions. So much emotion. Little details like showing the person's name and birth/death date, the shell shocked soldiers, the hopelessness of it all in the final segment where you feel it's an utter massacre with last man left standing. This game inspired me to research and learn about ww1 as I didn't know much before. What an awful part of history for both sides.

5:40 ...really...

0:34 me walking up for school

It’s a great experience that you’re fighting for your life knowing that the game said “You are not expected to survive.”

0:41 makes me shiver every time

It’s so heartwarming that even tho they were enemies to each other, they never wanted to fight each other anyways, because they are just human beings to each other 11:30

I remember the first time I played this game and the opener. Most tense I ever was playing any video game opener. Also I love how the mood begins with calm and then descends into chaos until the final climax in which it descends back into somewhat of a calm. It just leaves the player in pure awe and shock of what they just experienced.

7:12 "War, war never changes!"

Battlefield 1 has the best attitude towards war in a video game showing war not as something righteous and noble for one’s country but as a disease something to be avoided with those who get caught in it never being the same afterwards and this I find admirable

8:15 “good thing those bugs can’t aim”

There was no good guy or bad guy in WW1. Everyone was the same, and everyone suffered...

“You are not expected to survive” hits hard

So this is christmas.

It will be a sad day when these men are forgotten. What a masterpiece of a game.

What really gets me is the ambient music that plays. It really conveys a sense of foreboding doom perfectly.

the fact that the first boy was 18 years old really makes me think about this too much

“What fallows is frontline combat. You are not expected to survive.” The epitome of WWI frontline combat. This opening scene and gameplay capture that better than any game I have ever played before.

A lot of people don’t know this but there is a very small chance that one of the soldiers you play in this mission is the Unknown Soldier

I wanna cry this broke my heart, it still sends a chill down to my spine watching it.

00:26 CJ, is that you?

Every so often I go back to this game to play this opening. I try to see how long I can hold out as each each person (though a few deaths are obv scripted). Never before have I found myself going back to play a game's prologue so many times. The ending narration always gives me chills and even gets me to tear up a bit, without fail. "We are the jaded and we are the naive. We are the honorable and the criminal. We are the bound-for-legend and the lost-to-history. We are the knights in the sky, the ghosts in the desert, and the rats in the mud."

"Heres a deal, you get to live forever, and have 3 million dollars, but a hyper intelligent and immortal snail is hunting you, and if it touches you, you die an extremely painful death. Would you take it?" Me and the snail after we both outlive humanity, and the sun is dying 11:15

“You are not expected to survive” is one of the most chilling lines ever in shooters.

Watching soldiers beat others to death with their bare hands truly shows the brutality of this war. No FPS game has ever had a more impactful intro.

Young men taught to hate and mercilessly slaughter each other, while they would probably be friends outside of war. All for greedy monarchs and empires. Heartbreaking.

I remember when I got this game as I started the intro my older brother got home from work and watched me play it and after it was over I just turned my head to look at him and we just stared at each other in silence for a couple seconds we didn’t need to say anything because what we were saying with our faces was “damn…”

With the war being over it's gonna be one hell of a clean up job

It's rare to see a multiplayer fps with a decent campaign mode, let alone an amazing one like this.

The end where the soldiers both lowering their guns hits me the hardest, it shows how tragic and unneeded war really is, none of the soldiers really want to kill each other they're just following orders that they are given, its sad humans killing other humans 😔

Shut up about the snail

I had to see this on KZfaq such a powerful message