I never thought I would get excited about another World War II first-person shooter in my lifetime, but that was before EA and DICE went and announced a new Battlefield game set in that time period. The year is 1943, the maps are three, and the platforms are...PC, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network?
Well, the scale of it might be a little smaller than what you would have expected, but this is certainly better than nothing. Especially since one of the three maps in '43 will be Wake Island, the map I spent probably 90% of my time on in the original Battlefield 1942. (And if it hadn't been for Battle of the Bulge, that number would have approached 100.) Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal are the other two maps.
Here's a trailer and a couple of screens depicting what we're in for. Downloadable or not, the game looks pretty damn slick. Basically like '42 with destructible trees. I'm onboard.
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While we're on the subject, DICE also put out the first screen of Bad Company 2, news of which slipped out during EA's earnings call extravaganza the other day.
