Battlefield: 1943

adam

Alright, let me don my schoolgirl outfit so I can go..

omg omg omg omg Battlefield: 1943 trailer...
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/57101
dog fights! Wake Island! Yeeesss!!!


(PS: I loved BF1942).

JohnnyRaptor

oh man this is badass...the characters dont look that highres from the quick glimpses but damn im looking forward to it! i played the demo to death when it came out, was so mindblowingly good! and the full game...man i lost too many days to that game..

Cheez

Ahhhhh Wake Island....Hello old friend

Foehammer

I'd like to have this now, like in the next hour or so, can someone get on that?

Jesse Moody

Yeah can i have this now as well? Please. I was like addicted to BF2

Cheez

For me it as all about playing 1942 over the office network back in the old Oddworld days.
BF2 was cool and all, but felt a little old after playing a shit ton of the Desert Combat mod for 1942. Course, it helped that I didnt really play BF2 in quite the same setting as 1942...

doc rob

oh snap

AstroZombie

Daaaaamn! Looks nice.

ebagg

Personally I was most addicted to BF2, but had a lot of fun in BF1942. I hope they pump the player count to something crazy like 128 players, the BF games could definitely use some of the epic sized battles with tons of players like in Planetside!

Matabus

Crap. Seeing this makes me all nostalgic. Must have now.

MoP

Hmm, BF1942 was always my favourite of the BF series. Pretty arcadey and fun - looks like they've kept this gameplay style, which is nice.

Environments look pretty good, vehicles are nice - characters and animations looked pretty bad in that trailer tho, effects were pretty rubbish too.

I'd probably be happy if it's just a kind of expansion + new engine for the 1942 gameplay, with some extra maps, vehicles and weapons.

One thing they need to make sure of is to make the Soldier class actually useful, most of the time you were much better off playing Medic since that class got the same weapon loadout for the most part, but also medpacks ... so there was no reason to play soldier...

Keg

can't wait

Xenobond

ohemjee!

das Kubelwagon ist besitz!!

Thegodzero

...fuck he found out... well now that Kurtis knows about this i'm fucked.

Cojax

lol I almost forgot about the Battlefield series.

greenj2

Gah, my WWII-genre puke reflex just kicked in hard. :P

It looks very pretty, but watching that vid I get a very strong 'been there, done that, next' feeling. I just hope they've added some new game-play mechanics to breathe some new life into the old girl.

That said, there's a 99% chance I'll buy a copy of this when it drops regardless.

gavku

meh....I'm with you Eagle.

...would have preferred a BF3

ElysiumGX

I'm surprise and very glad to hear this. I loved 1942. My only complaint was that it suffered from the technology of the time. Plus, many many bugs. But overall the game was great.

Wake Island was too much fun. Wake Island for BF2 was ok, but not as great. The second map in the video was also a favorite of mine, I forget the name. Good to see them again in new lighting.

I prefer the arcade feel to the series over realism. And the vibrant colors will make the hours and days of playing easier on the eyes. Definitely on my buy list. Good to see EA is letting them give the gamers what they actually want. Now, release Battlefield Heroes.

Joshua Stubbles

It looks the same as 1942.....with a few texture changes and some new FX...

yay? Total rehash and a poor attempt by EA to get money quick.

adam

Vassago is 1 post away from having his status changed to 'Negative Nancy'. :P

cep

Can this be that 1 post?

I can't wait for this.

ElysiumGX

Vassago wrote: »

Total rehash and a clever, well executed, and outright demanded attempt by EA to get money quick.

fixed.

o2car

haha. wake island is my baby, nice to see its being taken care of.

Joshua Stubbles

Why don't you just keep playing 1942!? It looks like a mediocre update at best, and you're paying another $50 for it. Gah

Uly

prob not $50. it's only 3 maps, afterall.
sounds like a profitable test to bridge the gap in time and tech between now and battlefield 3.

rasmus

Wake Island!

Emil Mujanovic

Looks pretty... That is all.

-caseyjones

Steve Schulze

So did they ditch the whole Heroes concept? That was looking pretty nifty.

Joseph Silverman

Jackablade wrote: »

So did they ditch the whole Heroes concept? That was looking pretty nifty.

http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/

1943, badcomp2, and heroes are all different games.

mLichy

Looks interesting, but the particle effects look quite bad.

nitzmoff

I find both the name of this product and the existence of BF: Heroes to be very mystifying. Do we really need both? Heroes seemed like a distillation of what was the core experience of BF (absurd fun) and to release a product alongside it that is trying to pretend said satiric distillation doesn't exist or that folks won't act like idiots because the graphics got 'serious' again is misguided, no?

MoP

that's true, nitzmoff, it does seem a bit like they're competing with themselves there...

Shogun3d

I can't wait, I loved BF1942

rolfness

Ohhh noooo WWII again .... Im so sick of killing germans/japanese.. Im not trolling or bashing.. Im just so sick of WWII games....

rebb

Only Pacific Maps ?
While i did like them a lot in the original BF42, give me some African Theatre Maps - loved flying in those.

o2car

MoP wrote: »

that's true, nitzmoff, it does seem a bit like they're competing with themselves there...

Not really, Heroes is PC and 1943 is PS3/360.


edit:
oh didnt know they did it for pc.

doc rob

1943 is PC also.

I've played a bit of Heroes, and trust me, it's way different from the traditional battlfield feel. Plus, it's free to play and item-sales based, whereas 1943 is a more traditional game. Bad Company is the one that seems like the odd one out to me.

Justin Meisse

I would of enjoyed the original Bad Company more if it was co-op, especially since your Ai partners were really only there for commentary, they were invincible and you couldn't count on them in a firefight.

AstroZombie

adamBrome wrote: »

Vassago is 1 post away from having his status changed to 'Negative Nancy'. :P

Vassago wrote: »

Why don't you just keep playing 1942!? It looks like a mediocre update at best, and you're paying another $50 for it. Gah

Do it, Brome! I mean, now you almost have to if you want to be taken seriously as an administrator in the future

doc rob

Pay attention folks! I just noticed this:

Battlefield 1943: Pacific is a download only, multiplayer game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC

The game is scheduled for release this summer with an expected price point between $15 to $20. The download size of the game will be around 350MB

That explains a lot. It is interesting though. I hope they keep the great innovations of squad play and voice commands.

Joshua Stubbles

AstroZombie wrote: »

Do it, Brome! I mean, now you almost have to if you want to be taken seriously as an administrator in the future

I wouldn't doubt it. Got Adam his first industry gig and never got a thanks. MEANIE!

Doc, that makes it much more appropriate imo. If it's just a few pacific maps, I'd rather see a $15 price point though. Small and download only, I'm okay with this rehash. I assumed (since we had no info) that it was going to be a full released box game, which I thought was ridiculous.

Rox

Man, I'm torn about this game. I didn't get into Battlefield until BF2, and the only one I own is 2142. I've kinda been looking forward to a revisit to the older games that people remember so fondly.

But from what I hear, this'll be super-arcadey. Kotaku reports unlimited ammo and rechargable health, and only three classes. No medic (because of rechargable health), no engineer. So I just don't know how to feel about it yet...