Winston Churchill thinks it'd be a great idea to take Gallipoli. Surely this will be a great excursion with no major consequences; you'll just have to keep up your momentum and you'll win!
Or, so says this upcoming entry in a historical first-person shooter series - WW1: Gallipoli. With freshly-improved graphics and a new game mode, the developers at BlackMill Games are looking to drive hype for their new release.
"The signature game mode of Gallipoli is a 50-player battle all about momentum," the devs say in a Steam post about the upcoming game. "If you’re on the attacking side, your aim is to complete your objectives as quickly as possible. Doing so keeps your momentum high and your allies motivated."
It's an interesting idea, almost encouraging the kind of overwhelming steamrolls you see other multiplayer shooters try to avoid. It also offers the defenders something of a new win-condition: you don't have to actually halt the enemy advance. You just need to slow them down.
"The defenders however, will want to bunker down and hold the objectives as long as possible to waste the enemy’s momentum. Once that starts to bleed dry, the attackers...
