World War II is one of the most historically significant and important wars to ever take place. I think it's a little hard to critique a game based solely on its trailer, we don't actually know the finer details of the game and what they're planning to do.
All I know is World War II was a horrific war that resulted in a lot of lives lost and we also can't forget that WWII wasn't just bolt action rifles. The Americans fought with SMG's, primarily the Thompson, M3 and M50 Reising. Then you have grenades, grenade launchers, mines, M18 Recoilless rifle, flamethrowers (M1A1, M2-A1, Ronson) and the trove of advanced tanks and all-terrain vehicles.
From a gaming content perspective, World War II lends itself well to being recreated in a fast-action game environment and Battlefield V is not the first game to explore World War Two. Weapons wise, just purely on the American side there is a tonne of options, then you have the likes of Germany and other countries who brought their own technological might to the battle.
If you're after a basic war, that's World War I and Battlefield 1 did a great job capturing the basic nature of that war, a lot of on-field combat with limited technology assisted battle. But World War II was quite a technologically advanced war, even if it took place during the 40's.
Battlefield V looks to improve upon Battlefield 4, the graphics look fantastic and the gameplay is familiar so existing players can jump right in and not have much of a learning curve. It's an accessible game with a great engine powering it and if you're a fan of Battlefield, then this game will be enjoyable.
I'm not sure this really is meant to improve on Battlefield 4. Battlefield 4 is a modern war shooter. This doesn't look to be anything like that in a thematic sense. I think this is meant to separate more from BF 4 rather than improve it. I do definitely agree that WWII is a much more advanced war than WWI, but the prosthetic on the female soldier reall isn't that realistic to WWII. When people got injured they died or went home. That being said, I am okay with some small stretching of reality. I just want it to be realistic like BF4 was.
Separate the storyline from the game and you're left with a game engine, in this case, it's the FrostBite engine. So what I meant was Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 5 are alike in that the gameplay mechanics, settings and underlying game mechanic technicals are mostly improvements, but very similar.
yeah I understand what you said about armaments of the war and it was certainly more advanced than WW1 and lends itself to being faster paced than a WW1 game could be, I just worry that will be overdone.