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EA really wants you to know that Battlefield 6 is a "spiritual successor" to the "pinnacle" of the series, Battlefield 3 and 4: "We wanted to go modern"
In what I can only call an absolute win for Battlefield fans, Battlefield 6 is taking a lot of its inspiration from Battlefield 3 and 4, what many consider the heyday of the destructive FPS series.
"We have the inspiration from BF3 and BF4," Christian Grass, vice president and executive producer at Ripple Effect, tells GamesRadar+'s very own Joel Franey. "We wanted to go modern. We haven't been modern for a long time, so that is kind of part of it."
"It's hard to know exactly what thought started where," Grass continues. "But one of the things that we wanted to do [in] Battlefield 6, we wanted to return to [the] modern era. We've been away from that for a long time. We've been historical, near-future, so we wanted to go back to modern.
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"And of course, if you look back at our history, Battlefield 3 and 4, modern games. But they're all also great games. We love those games. It's sort of, you know, the pinnacle, maybe, of Battlefield – that's debatable. So that's kind of where it started, right? We wanted to go modern. We hadn't been modern for a long time. We wanted to create, Tompen [Thomas Andersson, creative director of Battlefield] calls it, 'the spiritual successor to Battlefield 3 and 4.'"
"If you want to do a spiritual succession to Battlefield 3 and 4, then you have assault, you have engineer, support, recon," creative director Andersson explains. "You're just making sure that if you're going to get Battlefield at its best with the team play that we desire all that sort of stuff, you need these classes to click."
I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.
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