“Battlefield 6”, a new opus for Electronic Arts war video games and one of the blockbusters at the end of the year, will be released on October 10, the American publisher announced on Thursday.
The eternal rival of the Call of Duty saga unveiled its history and game methods during several events bringing together journalists and content creators in Paris, London and Los Angeles.
This new episode, with hyper-realistic graphics and fully destructible sets, depicts a modern conflict where the United States entered war with a private militia, supported by former NATO members.
Scheduled on PC, Xbox Series and PlayStation 5, it has been developed around the world by several studios, including the Swedish Dice, at the origin of this series launched in 2002 and which has claimed more than 100 million players since its inception.
“Battlefield” immerses players in immense environments where two camps compete in reproductions of historical battles, but also on fictitious warf up.
Bringing together several dozen players per game, they can pilot tanks or combat aircraft to eliminate a maximum of opponents or take control of the enemy base.
This new title marks a return to the simulation of modern conflict, after several installments taking place during the world wars or in the future as “Battlefield 2042”, the latter released in 2021.
If he did not officially provide sales figures, Electronic Arts had recognized that the latter had not met with the expected success at launch.
Coming back to theaters of modern war that had made the success of episodes 3 and 4 in the early 2010s, the American publisher hoped to give the series to declining sales on good rails.
He will face this fall of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 7”, its direct competitor in the world of war games of the American Activision Blizzard, expected by the end of the year, but whose release date is not yet known.
Although called “Battlefield 6”, it is the tenth episode of the saga, which also has several derivative games.
