Verdun
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic World War I combat with rifles, bayonets, grenades, machine guns and artillery against human soldiers; enemies bleed, clutch wounds and cry out when hit, with detailed injury and gore modeling that can be disabled in a settings menu.
The bleak reality of trench warfare and mass death on historical Western Front battlefields, where players repeatedly die and kill over the same ground.
Wounded soldiers show detailed injury and blood effects as they clutch their wounds and collapse, and incendiary and white phosphorus weapons burn troops, though a menu toggle can disable blood and gore entirely.
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What it is
Verdun is an online first-person shooter built around squad play, recreating World War I trench combat and drawing on the 1916 clash at Verdun. Matches can hold as many as 64 combatants who seize and hold portions of the Western Front, wielding period-correct bolt-action rifles, machine guns, bayonets, grenades, plus backup options such as shelling and white phosphorus. The fighting is grounded and deadly, with fine-grained wound and blood effects: struck troops grab at their injuries, collapse, and scream, and weapons that spread fire and gas appear as well. A menu toggle lets players switch off blood and gore completely. It contains nothing sexual, no drugs or alcohol, and no purchasable extras. Since matches run over the internet, players encounter spoken and typed chat from people they do not know.
How it's framed
Rather than dressing up its bloodshed as thrilling spectacle, the title presents combat as a bleak, faithful re-creation of trench fighting in the Great War, foregrounding believability, deadliness, and the grinding push-and-pull along the Western Front. Competitors take the field as rival national units, and the design pins no tale of heroes or wrongdoers onto either faction.
Details
- Developer
- BlackMill Games
- Publisher
- BlackMill Games
- Released
- Apr 28, 2015
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