Gallipoli Review
Gallipoli is a First World War PC shooter from BlackMill Games, set on the Middle Eastern front and focused on the Gallipoli campaign. The review praises it as the studio’s best-looking and strongest entry so far, balancing historically grounded settings and equipment with enjoyable multiplayer action. Its subject matter matters because it highlights a major part of the war that is often less familiar than the Western Front, particularly outside Australia and New Zealand.
The reviewer singles out Anzac Cove, where attacking British Empire forces arrive in slow wooden rowing boats under Ottoman machine-gun fire, creating a stark and exposed assault sequence. Loading screens provide short historical notes, and the game’s atmosphere encouraged the reviewer to seek out more information about the campaign. It also depicts the mismatch between rapidly advancing weaponry, including machine guns, and outdated military tactics that contributed to enormous casualties.
- Gallipoli is praised as BlackMill’s strongest and best-looking WW1 shooter.
- It brings the overlooked Middle Eastern front into focus.
- Anzac Cove captures the campaign’s brutal vulnerability.
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The Gallipoli campaign was fought during the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula, in what is now Türkiye. British Empire forces, including troops from Australia and New Zealand known as Anzacs, tried to gain control of the area from the Ottoman Empire.
The campaign is often less familiar to readers than the fighting on the Western Front, though it holds a prominent place in Australian and New Zealand history. It also shows how machine guns and other modern weapons made attacks using older military tactics especially dangerous, with heavy losses on both sides.