The game’s got tanks, biplanes, horses. Bayonets. Flamethrowers. There’s 64-person multiplayer as well as a single-player campaign. The campaign will go to Arabia, Italy, and France, among other areas. Sounds like they’re aiming for realism.

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EA appears to be partnering with Microsoft for this marketing push; for the reveal event, all of the posters were plastered with “Xbox One” and they specifically announced that the game will be playable “first” on EA Access on PC and Xbox. (No date there yet.)

EA also announced an “Early Enlister Deluxe Edition,” on sale for $80, that will be out three days early, on October 18.

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The character on the game’s cover appears to be a Harlem Hellfighter. I think it’s safe to assume that there won’t be any magic, despite the main character looking straight out of Doctor Strange.

Correction - 2:30pm: An earlier version of this story stated that, as had been rumored, the new Battlefield would be set in an alternate-history version of World War I. We apologize for the error.