First trailer: In "Battlefield 6" it's NATO at the collar
EA has released the first trailer for the upcoming "Battlefield 6", which leaves little doubt that the NATO alliance case will occur. The expectations are huge.
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In the first trailer for "Battlefield 6", things are getting serious for NATO: a private military organization called Pax Armata has declared war on the transatlantic military alliance and is happily attacking targets in the alliance's territory. One of the targets of the war is the New York borough of Brooklyn and its famous bridge.
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The video makes it clear: after "Battlefield 2042" (future) and "Battlefield V" (World War II), "Battlefield 6" is once again set in a contemporary setting. Unadorned gameplay excerpts are not shown in the video. Instead, the trailer shows render scenes that are presumably taken from the single-player campaign. In Battlefield games, this traditionally serves more as an appetizer for the multiplayer mode, which is intended to keep players engaged and entertained for years. EA wants to show the multiplayer component on July 31.
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Four development studios and gigantic expectations
"Battlefield 6" is once again being developed by Swedish studio DICE, but Criterion Games, Motive Studio and Ripple Effect are also involved. The shooter is a major project with correspondingly high expectations: according to a report by Ars Technica, EA is aiming for 100 million players – - an extremely ambitious target.
According to the report, the predecessor 'Battlefield 2042', which is generally regarded as a flop, only reached 22 million players. The front-runner in the 'Battlefield' rankings so far is 'Battlefield 1', which was released in 2016 and reached "maybe a little over 30 million" players, an insider told Ars Technica. Battlefield 6 would therefore have to triple this figure to meet EA's expectations.
EA has not yet announced an official release date for "Battlefield 6". However, it is considered likely that the shooter will be launched on the market this year. An apparently inadvertently published EA landing page suggested a release date of October 10 – but the page has since been deleted.
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