Most game companies announce a release date for a game months in
advance. This practice lets all of us talk about the game for months
and months while we all wait for the game's release. It builds up
suspense for the title and at times it over hypes the game to sickening
point. to combat this good and bad effect EA is now taking a new route
with the Battlefield franchise and I can't say I'm unhappy with the
change. First they quietly moved Battlefield Heroes into open beta and
now their dropping 1943 on us in one week.
Today EA announced a
release date for the highly anticipated Battlefield 1943. The game will
hit XBLA on July 8th and PSN on July9th. That's right, NEXT WEEK!!!
It's not much time for us too forget about the game and only a week to
spew out love and or hate at the re-imagining of the classic
Battlefield 1942. I can only hope that this is EA's way of saying that
proof is in the pudding and Battlefield 1943 doesn't need long term
hype. If you remember the game was only announced in February .
We'll
all find out next week when this new digital distribution only
Battlefield is released to the public. However if you're thinking about
picking up the game I would recommend you do it sooner then later. If
not for yourself then for the community at large. Since we'll all be
working to get a ton of kills to unlock a new map we need all the help
we can get.
STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced that Battlefield
1943™ will be exclusively available July 8th on Xbox
LIVE™ Marketplace and July 9th on the PlayStation®Network. Battlefield
1943 is an all-new download-only action game that brings
DICE’s first-class vehicular warfare to gamers for just $15, or 1200 MS
Points.
Battlefield 1943 is a critically-acclaimed First-Person Shooter
(FPS) multiplayer game that puts players in the middle of a dogfight on
land, sea or in the skies. The game introduces two thrilling new modes
that can be played across four classic Battlefield tropical WWII
maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are
inspired by the award winning Battlefield 1942™ game, but have
been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE destructible Frostbite™
engine which takes down walls, blockades and cover spots, leaving
players with almost nowhere to hide. The game delivers endless hours of
social online gameplay – an extraordinary value at just $15.
The Coral Sea map which is included in the game will be unlocked as part
of a worldwide community challenge, where players will work together to
reach 43M kills on both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. To help
gamers reach that goal, up to 24 players can play together online in
countless matches. They will have the freedom to compete by land, air
and sea as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy. Whether
they choose to play the role of a rifleman crawling through the
trenches, a steel-fisted tank commander, or a dog fighting ace pilot,
gamers will have the power to rule the Battlefield.
“Battlefield 1943 is going to change consumer expectations of
what a downloadable game can be. By offering Frostbite’s next generation
destruction technology with a full Vehicle Warfare FPS multiplayer
experience at a mere 560MB, Battlefield 1943 sets a new
standard,” said Gordon Van Dyke, Producer on Battlefield 1943.
“Our goal is to blow people away with a fully accessible, retail-calibre
game for veteran Battlefield fans and shooter fans alike to enjoy
for only $15.”
For more information on DICE, please visit www.dice.se
or www.ea.com.
For more information on Battlefield 1943 please visit: www.battlefield.com/1943.
Or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/OfficialBF1943.
The game will be available on the PC in September.
