New Battlefield console game in the works [update 1]
by Joystiq Staff 
{ Aug 21st 2006 at 5:25PM }
As Battlefield 2142 readies its assault on PC owners soon, DICE has announced that the Battlefield franchise will continue to prosper on consoles with another iteration coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 called Battlefield: Bad Company. This time, however, EA and DICE want to focus on the one thing that has always been lacking in Battlefield games: single player.
The storyline will be centered on a squad out for revenge and DICE promises the game (due out in 2007) will maintain the feeling their online games project. "The heart of DICE's multiplayer games is the frenetic, unpredictable nature of the sandbox experience, where anything could happen at any moment, and that's what we're bringing to the core of Battlefield: Bad Company's single-player campaign," said DICE Senior Producer Karl Magnus Troedsson.
[Update: Changed picture to first, official screenshot that has been released]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
uh_oh @ Aug 21st 2006 5:39PM
Battlefield on consoles sucks! That xbox 360 one was dull and non-engaging. PC is better for these games.
T-Bag @ Aug 21st 2006 5:45PM
Yay, another shitty sub-battlefield game for the consoles. Why isn't 2142 being ported? ******* fanboys.
Ian @ Aug 21st 2006 5:46PM
This sucks cause I think Battlefield is an okay franchise but EAs doing this yearly shit like with all their games. Battlefields for the consoles always suck ass, forget about the single player game, why can't companies just go out and say that theres console games not meant for single player, especially when the single player mode is gonna suck anyway. I can almost guarentee that BF2 was the last BF game I will ever buy.
Stu L Tissimus @ Aug 21st 2006 5:52PM
A Battlefield game that focuses on single-player and is being developed for next-gen consoles whose sole new feature is expanded online capability? That's just... my god, I can't even think of an analogy to match the stupidity of this move.
Modern Combat was bad enough, do they really need to continue the series on consoles? I mean, hell, I don't even have high hopes for BF2.5 -- oh, I'm sorry, BF2142.
Jarrett @ Aug 21st 2006 5:56PM
Ian....it's the almighty dollar my friend. As long as gamers buy it...they will make it a yearly iteration. That's business 101 keep them coming back and paying for more.
ChrisDam @ Aug 21st 2006 6:05PM
*coughcough*Madden*coughcough*
-_-
Ben @ Aug 21st 2006 6:06PM
That is a terrible title.
GoPodular @ Aug 21st 2006 6:31PM
I wish they would finish Battlefield 2 first... The game *still* crashes to desktop and its a year old.
I bet this has/will have the same core defect. Or is it a new engine?
razer @ Aug 21st 2006 6:33PM
Battlefield 2 was the only game that I actually regret purchasing. Talk about a slap in the face to anyone that played the PC version. They could of done better but they just ported what they had on the Xbox1. The 2142 sounds interesting since I prefer the futuristic to the tired old present military style. I will get all I need from CoD3 and like someone else said BF2 is the last title in this IP I purchase.
Unfounded Trout @ Nov 28th 2006 11:56PM
Here's an idea, how's about EA fixes their god-forsaken servers. I think the reason they're putting so much time into the single-player is so when their servers drop you for the thousandth time you can go play their lackluster campaign mode while you curse at the screen.
Josh @ Aug 21st 2006 6:40PM
BF2 for PC is one of the best freaking multiplayer games I have ever played, hands down. That said, BF console outings, from my experience, suck majorly.
skr1lls @ Aug 21st 2006 6:51PM
I loved battlefield 2 on the 360, and the original xbox. Online is so much fun for me that i can forgive the occasional crash, or mic problems.
So hey, awesome for me! Suckie suckie for all of you. And no, i never played the PC version do to my utter hate of anything that is not Apple.
That being said, i am now going into my fallout shelter. So no wireless mice get thrown at my direction.
Austin @ Aug 21st 2006 6:58PM
Why do you people just shoot down anything out of the ordinary? Its not even like they're taking out the multiplayer too. If you dont want to play single player, dont. Also, Ian said "battlefields for consoles always suck," Im pretty sure they only came out with one Battlefield on consoles, which I didnt think was that bad. Give games a chance, damn, I cant belive how many fags are out there.
atlnative76 @ Aug 21st 2006 7:21PM
@skr1lls OK, you hate anything not Apple, but own a 360, made my MSFT? That said, I agree, I loved Battlefield 2 on the 360. I am disappointed they aren't porting 2142 to next gen...yet. If it proves popular on the PC, here's betting all my Microsoft points that DICE decides to port it over.
Stu L Tissimus @ Aug 21st 2006 8:30PM
All of you think BF2 on the 360 was a port... But it's entirely different from the PC game.
MadHattr @ Aug 22nd 2006 1:37AM
"This time, however, EA and DICE want to focus on the one thing that has always been lacking in Battlefield games: single player."
But modern combat was mostly single player game, and it fared quite well at that. Not groundbraking or anything, but the whole line-of-sight player swap was neatly implemented.
Chris @ Aug 22nd 2006 4:07AM
Why oh why can't they just make a BF1942 2. Everything to come out of DICE since BF1942 has just been laughable, and now they're going to focus on a console that already breaks more than BF2 does, with the added benefit of 12-year-old pottymouths screaming obscenities in your ear.
J @ Aug 22nd 2006 7:03AM
EA has made Dice into a Battlefield factory...
Manboy @ Aug 22nd 2006 7:13AM
Sounds like they're taking the series on console in an Operation Flashpoint sort of direction, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. That said, they'd be crazy to neglect the multiplayer as a result of the whole project becoming too ambitious.
As to BF2 proper, I see it as being a kind of charicature of PC gaming, its flaws and strengths magnified into big shiny noses and cauliflower ears. On one hand you have a game that takes a pig of a system to run well, loading times that let you finish most of a Mario Kart grand prix and a patching process that has driven me to doing a complete reinstall each time an update comes out. On the other hand you have these breathtaking, chaotic battles with sixty three other souls played out in a series of player-made set pieces that sometimes rival railroaded shooters for their awesomeness (except you have a squad of your friends to high five instead of whichever map maker at Infinity Ward made that tank burst through the wall).
Loque @ Aug 22nd 2006 9:31AM
I remember playing the xbox 360 one on live for the first time at a friends house..
I was a sniper, and the rifle doesn't move when proned. I kept the crosshairs at the door of a helicpoter, right at head level. 15 minutes later, there are a pile of corpses.
Too easy.