The Battlefield video game series has turned the clock backward and forward on its military-combat scenarios for nearly 15 years. Whether focused on wars of the past, present, or future, developer DICE has continually introduced different set pieces and weapons to the games. As such, the eras have ultimately been a backdrop for the same experience time and time again: big battles, big squads, and big machinery.

There are particular eras where’d it’s be easy to envision DICE being forced to change the Battlefield formula drastically—maybe millennia into the past, where the only “vehicle” on offer is a giant Trojan horse, or so far into the future that the battles take place via telepathy (or something weird like that). But the latest rewind to World War 1 in the newest installment, Battlefield 1, isn’t enough of a change, apparently.

Tanks, boats, airplanes, grenades, sniper rifles, shotguns, automatic pistols, mounted chain guns, and on and on and on—in many respects, you’ve played this Battlefield before. In fact, anybody charmed by an impressive advertising campaign, complete with horse-riding Ottoman warriors and era-appropriate bi-planes, should take a breath and plant their war-shredded boots back into the mud of a trench. In practice, horses are just slightly slower motorcycles. Bi-planes work as you’d expect a plane to work.