Battlefield 1943, Bad Company 2 unveiled

By Robert Purchese Published 5 February, 2009

More war for PC, PS3 and 360 this year.

EA has officially unveiled Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943 for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

The latter will be out this summer as a downloadable PSN, XBLA and PC title. Players will be whisked back to World War II and do battle in tropical locales Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, using period vehicles and weaponry to wreak havoc.

DICE made a name for itself with Battlefield 1942 many moons ago, and is relishing the chance to revamp the experience using brand new tech. We're told this will be playable at the New York Comic-Con this weekend.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be out this winter and build on the destructive, humorous and story-driven original that welcomed top-notch scores. Thick jungles, snowy mountains and dusty deserts will provide the background this time, with piles of weapons at hand to reduce everything to rubble. The celebrated multiplayer will return, too.

Head over to our Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 1943 galleries for the first screenshots.

Alternatively, dive-bomb into Eurogamer TV for the first Battlefield 1943 trailer.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • interspaced #1 3 years ago

    PC! yes!

  • Buenos_Estente #2 3 years ago

    Yum

  • Hunam #3 3 years ago

    Download only 1943? Only 3 maps?

    Why :(

    Give us 6!

  • BiffTanner #4 3 years ago

    I'm guessing the 3 maps may be an initial thing, if it sells well enough I would think they will release a few more maps.

    Just a shame its the pacific, means we wont get to see classic maps like el-alamein in there :(

  • PearOfAnguish #5 3 years ago

    It had better support modding.

  • OllyJ #6 3 years ago

    Bocage...market garden...

  • Hunam #7 3 years ago

    Market Garden was the king of maps.

  • MatteG #8 3 years ago

    Both these games are day one buys for me. DICE and Criterion are doing amazing DLC at the moment. I mean an entire game at retail quality for XBLA WOW. I don't care it its only got 3 maps Quality>Quantity.

  • ChaK #9 3 years ago

    I want the real BF3 !!!!

    Now !!

    I mean BF:BC was ok, but if they could just remake BF2 with BC engine....

  • chessboxer #10 3 years ago

    Bad Company 2 is a day one purchase for me. Hopefully they will do a nice gold box like the first game. Will see how 1943 turns out.

  • b00n #11 3 years ago

    1943, why the hell not make it a full release? with Market Garden, i still know every inch of it by heart.

  • king_ghidra #12 3 years ago

    BF1942 is definitely one of my favourite games of all time. This is rather exciting news.

  • RedSparrows #13 3 years ago

    Interesting it's a DL title. I like the sound of it to be honest...

  • bioreit #14 3 years ago

    Oh wow.

    I had written BF:1943 off, as for some reason I had just assumed it would be a PC only title. Can't believe it's a XBLA (always pronounce this as 'ex-blah' in my head) and PSN title too!

    I will probably get this, but I just wish they'd do an update of BF2:MC - for me, that was the epitome of a game developed for consoles. At no point did it ever feel like it was a PC game borked into working on a controller. And the feel of the character was spot-on.

    Plus, having four of you bail out of a hovering chopper onto the Chinese skyscraper in Bridge Too Far, or parachuting down when the snipers finally found you just made the game an awesome team-game experience that for me, has *never* been repeated.

    /still doesn't get why BF:BC has no parachutes. And Frontlines just didn't cut it. Yes, I'm bitter :-)

  • skillian #15 3 years ago

    BF1943?! Yay, I had no idea about this!

    Can't wait to go back to Wake Island :D

  • metalangel #16 3 years ago

    I always liked the Pacific maps in BF1942 best... fleet battles, submarines, torpedo runs... yay! Forgotten Hope was amazing too, they should just licence that!

  • aphexstwin #17 3 years ago

    bf2mc (360) over bfbc for me. sp missions are better coz they are missions and (aside from the quicksnipe cheat which MS do nothing to fix) the multiplayer is way better coz the environments arent destructable, meaning a spawnrape fest isnt a possibility in every game. as someone else said, bf2 in bfbc clothes would be better

  • metalangel #18 3 years ago

    DC_Final or Forgotten Hope as proper full games would be ideal. Neither BF2MC nor Frontlines quite captured the sheer joy of DC_Final. Eve of Destruction (Vietnam Mod) was a damn good'un too.

    Hell, am I alone in being depressed that these mods were vastly superior to the commercial releases?