♪ (upbeat video game music) ♪

♪ (action music) ♪

- Oh, Battlefield 1!

We're gonna be shooting somebody, for sure.

- (FBE) A while back, you reacted to the trailer for this game,

where we told you you were probably going to play

this World War I shooter eventually.

Well, today is that day.

- I see, because I've seen this before, here in the studio.

- Was that the gory one where all the heads were being cut off?

- (FBE) Mm-hm. - Oh god.

It was horrible, absolutely horrible.

- (FBE) You'll be playing the game mode "Conquest,"

in which you and 63 other people fight to control

multiple strategic points across a massive map.

- I just hope they don't curse me out.

- It sounds a little daunting.

- They're going to wipe the floor with me!

- If I can figure out those buttons, somebody is going down!

- "Capture and hold the flags."

- "Massive all-out war: hold the majority of flags

and eliminate enemy troops to win."

- I'm the new recruit in town.

- This is moving to the left, and this is-- oh, this is going down?

- (soldier) Keep it going, boys! - Hard to center it.

- I don't see anybody. Let's see, where...

I guess I have to go further forward.

- (voice-over)...has arrived. (gunshots)

- I'm down already.

(rapid gunfire) - To the right. Whoops.

(laughing)

- So what it was-- "you versus foe: 0-1."

Oh my god, mine died already.

I don't know what I'm doing.

- (FBE) The red letters are the flags that you need to capture and defend.

That's your objective.

- Okay, and now the blue one is mine.

- The flags, where can I find the flags?

- Get those flags over there, okay.

Follow that bayonet, you idiot!

- That's the only way to go through here.

No, no, no, no, no, back.

(soldier barking orders) Go through here, okay.

Oh, this is like a maze.

(shooting)

- Ay, he hit me!

So I'm dead now?

He's going to run over me. (anxiously) Oh!

- How do I capture them?

- (FBE) Yep, so if you hit X right now, you're going to load onto the map.

- Oh, oh, I see.

And now I bring it back to my base or something?

- (FBE) You just have to hold the area.

- Oh. (explosion)

I have absolutely no idea who I'm holding it from.

- (FBE) See that flag going up right in front-- oh.

- Yeah. - (FBE) Yeah, that's a control point.

- Did I just get killed?

Okay, and I'm back. Okay.

All right. - (FBE) Oh, you're in a tank now.

- So I'm in a tank?

(firing)

Okay, there's someone around here somewhere.

I hear fire.

- Flag, flag, where are you?

Aah! (laughing)

Ay yi yi, Josie, you just can't be a fighter, you know?

Oh-oh, there's a flag.

I wish I could be an expert on this because it's fun.

I really, really like it.

(firing) (enemy moans)

- Did I get something? No. (laughing)

(laughing)

Where is it?

- This B, how come I'm not hitting-- I guess I have to go back further.

Did I just get a [inaudible]?

(firing) - There.

I shot-- I had that guy right in my sights, and mean 100%.

(firing)

And nothing's happening. - (FBE) That's not an enemy.

That's a control point you need to capture.

- Oh, well, then what-- - (soldier) There's one over there!

- What is the point of what I'm doing?

Uh-oh, I got shot.

- Great graphics. It's awesome.

Oh, barbed wire? That does not bother me!

I wear it around my feet for traction!

- Trying to get that, uh, one there.

- (FBE) Now you just captured that point.

- Oh, okay, oh, that's good.

- I see a target. They're running away from me.

- (FBE) The little blue dots mean it's, uh, a teammate.

- Oh, that was a teammate? - (FBE) Yep.

- Oh, really?

You mean to tell me I've been using friendly fire the whole time?

(firing)

Ay! He killed me again.

I know now the secret. - (FBE) What's that?

- I should go really fast and then shoot at it right away.

- There's some rocks. There's more rocks.

There's more rocks.

Oops, oops, oops, oops, oops!

Is that my friend?

- (FBE) I think that's your friend, yep.

- Oh, then I don't won't shoot my friend.

- Wait a minute, that's a German flag!

That's my flag!

I'd better protect it then.

Jawohl. Ja! (speaking German)

(speaking German aggressively)

- I'm trying to get the, uh, technique of this

and I feel like I'm doing a better job.

The more I feel like I have a little bit of talent,

the more interested I am in the game.

All of my moral complaints about hurting people

or something like that are kind of not in the picture right now.

"Deploy armored train." A train is coming through there?

(train whistle blows)

Where would a train come through that?

I wouldn't think there'd be any tracks left.

- (voice-over) We have an armored train on route.

- I know, I can hear it.

Don't kill me, please. You did kill me.

Oh, Josie, you're getting old.

- Okay, so now I'm on the train.

Now, okay, I just let the train go and I try to look for bad guys?

Okay, there it is. So shoot-- shoot the bad guys.

I'm way up in the air. I'm flying!

- Where's my gun? I don't even know where my--

Do I have a gun? I don't seem to have one anymore.

I guess I'm just doing the train.

(firing)

Oh, I see, it's a turret on the train.

I didn't-- (scoffs) I just got blown up.

- (voice-over) We have taken Objective...

- Okay, so now I'm up-- it looks like an attic.

Are we hiding?

- Oh my god, I'm flying?

But who am I trying to get?

Oh. (laughing)

- Gee. Ooh.

(plane instruments going haywire)

Oh, is that-- oh no, no! (laughing)

I was just going to say, that is cool.

(firing)

- They hit me again, I think.

It's really affecting me,

like I'm the one that's being really hit. (laughing)

- (voice-over) We have lost Objective George.

- Do you mean E? - (FBE) You just captured it.

You just captured a flag.

- I did?

Seems I didn't do anything.

- I guess you really have to spend a lot of time doing these games

to know what you're doing, and... I don't know if that many is left.

- I don't see any flags.

- "Defeat?!" It means I lost?

- "Defeat." Oh.

- "Defeat."

- I guess I'm defeated.

- "Victory." Somebody took them down.

Was that me?

- Oh, I just got defeated.

So which one-- - (FBE) You were the German side.

You were the left one.

I was the left guy? No wonder I lost!

I should lose.

- "Defeat."

I captured 31 flags? - (FBE) No, the other team did.

- Oh. (laughing)

I think that it might take me several years to learn it.

- Oh no, did I die again?

- (FBE) No, your team lost. - I can see why.

I was on it. (laughing)

- I liked this.

Of all the games that you've asked me to play,

this was the best.

- This much action, it threw me off at first

because I don't think of World War I as having this much action in it.

- Most of the kids probably don't even know

what the hell World War I is.

My impression of the war, I think of trenches,

and people being hungry, and people being wet.

Here, they were just running around.

- I could see where that game could be really terrifically exciting,

especially if you were effective,

but I wasn't very confident most of the time.

- Battlefield 1 is number one.

If I could play it again, for, like, 15 hours,

I could maybe shoot somebody except me. (laughing)

- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders Gaming

on the React channel.

- What games should we play next? Let us know in the comments.

- Definitely more explosions here than in history class.

Bye, everyone.

- Hey everybody, Derek here, a producer from the React channel.

Look, I don't have time to talk right now.

Apparently, there's donuts in the break room.