EA Announces Two New Battlefield Titles

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will put players back in control of a modern squad of soldiers, while Battlefield 1943 will revisit WWII.

Electronic Arts may have pushed some games back in the face of financial woes, but the Swedish-developed Battlefield franchise is apparently alive and kicking. On Thursday, the company announced Battlefield: Bad Company 2, along with a hold-over release: Battlefield 1943.  

Like the first Bad Company, the second iteration will take place in modern times, tracking the B Company through “snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages.” It will use the same Frostbite engine as the first, and appear on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 when it debuts this coming winter.

Battlefield 1943 returns to the original WWII formula with a strictly multiplayer romp through the Pacific theater, including Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Given its summer release date, EA has pitched it as a hold over for players waiting for Bad Company 2.

"Bad Company 2 takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante – more vehicles, more destruction and more team play,” said Battlefield executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson, in a statement. “Battlefield 1943 is a new take on a blast from the past classic coming to life with brand new technology that we’re eager to get into players hands."