EA confirms two new Battlefield entrants

by Stevie Smith - Feb 6 2009, 09:51

These past seven days have been somewhat busy for third-party videogame titan Electronic Arts (EA). Having already handed its Need for Speed series a quality lifeline with four new confirmed titles for 2009 and signing up for a decade of Robert Ludlum titles, the publishing heavyweight has now added fresh Battlefield releases into the mix.

More pointedly, those gamers left wanting yet more bang for their buck after last year’s explosive Battlefield: Bad Company will be thrilled to note that EA developer DICE is hard at work on the unsurprisingly titled Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

“Bad Company 2 takes everything that players likes in the original and ups the ante,” enthused DICE executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson, “[meaning] more vehicles, more destruction, and more team play.”

However, perhaps carrying more weight is news that DICE is also overseeing the creation of Battlefield 1943, the long-awaited follow up to award-winning Battlefield 1942, which was first released on the PC way back in 2002.

Battlefield 1943 will rely on EA’s new Frostbite engine (also running Bad Company 2) and deliver multiplayer action across (just) three maps with online support for a total of (only) 24 players. The maps in question will place focus on World War II’s Pacific theater and will see war raging both on and over Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and the ever-popular Wake Island.

Offering its own special brand of frantic troop and vehicular-based combat, Battlefield 1943 is expected to arrive this coming summer and will be available for the PC and also the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 through their respective online platforms – which suggests the lack of environmental choice and limited player support will be reflected in a lower purchase price.

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