BF2S Forums Battlefield 3 - Main Thread

This could be . . . interesting.

Now, with the release of archrival Activision's Modern Warfare 2--developed by former EA employees at Infinity Ward--looming, EA is planning a comeback in the military shooter sector. Speaking at the William Blair & Company investor conference this week, EA COO John Pleasants revealed that, in addition to this year's sequel to the critically lauded, multiplatinum Battlefield: Bad Company, EA is planning a new installment in its core Battlefield franchise.

"We have a lot of IP in that [shooter] area, and we have not not noticed that Call of Duty has a significant share of that business," Pleasants told analysts during a question-and-answer session. "We are putting a real concentrated effort behind those titles. Battlefield happens to be one of them…I've had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE over in Sweden. I was highly impressed by the way the people were working on that product. That's not for this fiscal year [ending March 31, 2010], but that is a product that is looking very good."

After saying that the download-only Battlefield 1943 has been "selling well," he said the Battlefield franchise is "strengthening and moving to a service model, and it has multiple titles within it which we can lever off of, so I am bullish on the Battlefield franchise, but it's not our only title which we are hoping to gain share with in the shooter category." He offered the forthcoming third-person shooter Army of Two: The 40th Day as another title that would court shooter fans.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6211809.ht … es;title;1

I thought BC2 couldn't make it this year, thus it'd be out next year, 2010, which technically is still the winter leftover from 2009.

Now this is all very confusing . . .

Wiki has added BF3 to the series list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_(series)

Last edited by Cyrax-Sektor (2009-06-10 20:14:06)

DICE, its about fucking damn time you announced BF3. ive been waiting for ages for it. it better not flop like 2142.

It better fucking be modern day. Like actually modern day. Not where everyone is just using M4's and Mp7's. I want something like PoE except even more modern. At the very least: Mobile artillery, mortars maybe, new vehicles, a way larger assortment of weapons/items-something like 2142 would be great- and just up-to-date everything. Not up-to-date as in 5+ years ago. Maybe they should start watching futureweapons, some of the older episodes that has things that have been deployed.

Some of these would just be

The osprey (helicopter plane) would be fantastic. It's modern day, been deployed, has a modern day 2142 feel (attack ship).

Last edited by xBlackPantherx (2009-06-10 20:47:01)

can't wait!

Cyrax-Sektor wrote:

I thought BC2 couldn't make it this year, thus it'd be out next year, 2010, which technically is still the winter leftover from 2009.

Now this is all very confusing . . .

Wiki has added BF3 to the series list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_(series)

Gamestop says the pre-order for BC2 ships Dec 31st 09.

I think DICE's taking on too many projects at once tbh. Unless they've done some serious hiring, they've thinned out their battlefield programmers between 1943, BC2 and now BF3. I hope they don't fuck it up

Last edited by ebug9 (2009-06-10 21:12:25)

Sambuccashake wrote:

Finally!!!!


They tested and learned a looot of good stuff from 2142 so I'm quite certain that BF3 will be the FPS that will rule all!

2142 is fucking shite?

Yay :]

But the Frostbite engine is gay... :[

Great. Gotta get new PC.

I don't know... me thinks they will fucks it up's

Finray wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

As long as it takes place in modern times like BF2, and improves on some stuff, I'm looking forward to it.

http://cache.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/150233_S … review.jpg

Is that a carrier beaching in the background?  *flashbacks to 1942*

I hope BF3 is friendlier towards custom maps than BF2 was.

Last edited by Pubic (2009-06-11 03:10:11)