• EA announces Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2

    EA announces Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 06, 2009 1346 hrs IST

    EA has launched DICE's Battlefield sequels Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 games on XBOX 360, PS3 and PC

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Electronic Arts has revealed two new Battlefield sequels from DICE currently titled as Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Battlefield 1943 will take gamers one year ahead in the World War II from Battlefield 1942. No specific date has been set, but both games are scheduled for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

As the name suggests, Bad Company 2 is powered by Frostbite game Engine used in the first Bad Company and will be its direct sequel. The developer studio promises that this sequel would be similarly expansive and will have fully-destructible environments.

Battlefield 1943, on the other hand will take gamers to World War II with three reworked maps of Battlefield 1942 - Guadalcanal, Wake Island, and Iwo Jima. Surprisingly, the maximum players that can join 1943 game are 24 instead of traditional lavish 64 players.

Karl Magnus Troedsson, executive producer for DICE, proclaimed, "Bad Company 2 takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante -- more vehicles, more destruction, and more team play."

EA will also offer digital download of Battlefield 1943 - on PC, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Store.

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(8) Comments
Rahul
,Bangalore, on Jul 18, 2009 03:23 PM
I downloaded the trial of this game on PS3,the graphics and gameplay is just brilliant.What an amazing online game.It looks like dice has resurrected the battlefield series.Wanna buy this game but there isn't a Indian PlayStation Store yet :(
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Ickalanda
,Kalamazoo, on Feb 12, 2009 08:46 AM
Only 24 players? Way to dumb it down for consoles. Consoles are what ruin the gaming industry, and all they are is a market trick anyway to get companies to have to pay royalties, really every game could just be on PC.
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Roy
,Westfield,NY, on Feb 11, 2009 01:57 AM
I have been a fan of the BF series, and own every one of them including the expansion...I am quite upset that EA has given up on us pc gamers...24 players? what about us clans who have more than that in membership?? three maps? cheap...we were all hoping for a BF3, and looks like we are getting crap...EA instead of spending your money on football players to be on your covers, spend it on your games..for now, Ill spend my money on the COD series..atleast they support thier gamers...IF they continue wasting time with consoles and screw over us PC guys, we will just play thier competitors games...like COD4 did to BF2...killed it..its a shame that COD5&6 will both be released before they even decide IF they are going to do a BF3...think of the money they made on BF2 and its expansions...not to mention thier server rentals of 128 bucks a month...theres a cash cow there, but they want to play the kiddie consoles...Crying shame
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Disturbed
,Iowa, on Feb 10, 2009 01:44 AM
nsider, you do realize that both of these games are gonna be available for PC? How does that make it consolized?
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Nsider
,Miami, on Feb 07, 2009 06:36 AM
Anyone else upset that the battlefield series has been consolefied and that we still have no news on battlefield 3 ?
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Bob
,ND, on Feb 06, 2009 10:18 PM
YAH!!! Long live Battlefield :)
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Josh
,Des Moines, on Feb 06, 2009 07:43 PM
LOL Great, more crap games coming from the most OVER rated developers in the industry..
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george
,fuckton, on Feb 06, 2009 04:37 PM
SECUROM included? Im not thinking so, Stuff it EA!
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