Excited about Battlefield 2142 on PC? Then check out our brand new screens of Dice's futuristic online combat game by clicking on the images tab just above. The Battlefield series has been host to some of the greatest online scraps available, and 2142 - which takes the fight into a mech-filled dystopia - looks to be no
To twist a few tired metaphors, in Battlefield 2142 war is hell on Earth frozen over. The latest title in the squad-centric online shooter series, 2142 finds Earth caught in the floes of a new ice age, as the creeping freeze squeezes two coalitions - the European Union and the Pan Asian army - into a fight for the last remaining pockets of habitable land.
Battlefield 2142 might be futuristic, but it's not science fiction. There're no ray guns, lasers or teleporters in this chilly dystopia,
The latest storming entry for the PC multiplayer shooter series Battlefield is out next week, and to keep your trigger fingers itching until then, hit the Movies tab above for two new clips.
The first is a brief-but-brutal demonstration of probably the most satisfying new addition: the great stomping Battlewalkers. You'll soon learn that while they bristle with firepower, their towering height makes them ripe
Battlefield 2142 Unlocks Weekend will provide fans access to all the game's weaponry that usually has to be, ah, unlocked.
Although it's called Unlocks Weekend, the event actually kicks off tomorrow and concludes on Monday.
"In an effort to let everyone preview all unlocks while playing in a ranked environment we will be granting all soldiers every one of the upgrades over the coming 4 days," explains the official website.
"Starting Friday and lasting until midnight PST Monday every soldier
If current events are any indication, people around the world still won't have their problems sorted out in 136 years. This is great news for fans of the team-based military shooter franchise, Battlefield. EA and developer DICE have announced today that they are taking the conflict into the future to the year 2142. Battlefield 2142 will bring all of the massive online action to a futuristic battleground, where a new Ice Age forces the globe into a conflict over the last remaining fertile
The futuristic setting and hardware of Battlefield 2142 comes across crisp and clear in these latest shots released by EA. We've also got action shots of the new Titan game mode.
The objective of the Titan mode is for each side to capture and secure several strategic points on the map, then focus moves on to the destruction of the Titan. The Titan is a hovering command centre bristling with defenses, and can only be taken down from inside.
The Titan's defense system must be taken down, and
We've gathered the best of a recent barrage of Battlefield 2142 shots for your viewing pleasure - including a look at the airborne vehicles that should prove as terrifying, in skilled hands, as in previous Battlefields. (Then again, a flying vehicle in unskilled hands proved pretty terrifying as well, but for all the wrong reasons.) Hit the Images tab above to check out all the latest shots.
If you're not a Battlefield veteran, but these screens that don't involve men with guns shooting inside
With its vision of future Armageddon, Battlefield 2142 only ratchets the thumbscrews down even tighter for Battlefield junkies. Almost MMORPG in scope, the towering amount of ranks and deep catalogue of unlockable items for each class makes this Battlefield more addictive than ever.
2142 shrinks BF2's seven classes down to only four - so things seem a little more streamlined on the surface. However, within each class, there are two "career tracks" that diverge the roles even further. For
Is there no hope for the future? Not if Battlefield 2142 has anything to say about it, prognosticating a world riddled with nasty skirmishes. The new expansion, Northern Strike, sees the Pan-Asian Coalition and the European Union having it out over the crumbs of civilization, making a big to-do over the icier sections of our poor, fractured planet.
Adding even more space to a series renowned for its vast real estate, Northern Strike brings three new maps, and just so you dont catch your death
America's under attack? Well, it will be when Battlefield 2: Armored Fury comes out this spring. Seems that EA's future soldiers find themselves besieged by China and the Middle Eastern Coalition after its borders are threatened. Time to bring out the big guns - even if they will be
