Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield 1943, its latest WWI-themed first person shooter from subsidiary studio Dice, will launch as a download-only game on Xbox Live (on July 8) and PlayStation Network (on July 9) for just $15. The first-person shooter builds on the award-winning Battlefield 1942 and takes players into four Pacific battles (Wake Island, Iwo Jima, Coral Sea, and Guadalcanal). And the game comes with a community challenge for social gamers: to work together on the Coral Sea battle to reach 43 million kills across both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
Battlefield 1943 lets players participate in each battle in two modes on land, sea, and in the air as either a U.S. Marine or a member of the Japanese Imperial Navy taking on a number of roles, from a rifleman to a pilot to a tank commander. Battlefield 1943 has also been engineered to leverage Dice's destructible Frostbite engine that takes out walls, barricades, and other cover spots—and, for the bandwidth constrained, the entire game weighs in at only 560 MB.
"Battlefield 1943 is going to change consumer expectations of what a downloadable game can be," said producer Gordon Van Dyke, in a statement. "Our goal is to blow people away with a fully accessible, retail-calibre game for veteran Battlefield fans and shooter fans alike to enjoy for only $15."
Battlefield 1943 will also ship on Windows PCs in September.
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