Be careful for that falling breezeblock! It is about to– ah, too late, you’ve got been donked. A clip of loud wreckage, gunfire, and bazooka’d buildings has fallen dustily into our lap through a promotional video for Battlefield 6 (or regardless of the builders plan to name the subsequent of those large-scale first-person shooters). Principally, it is a whole lot of producers speaking an enormous sport about “levelling up” the “core expertise”, which appears to stay blasting a constructing you do not like with a rocket-propelled grenade. We are able to inform from the ultimate 10 seconds of the video, which present among the sport’s precise working and/or gunning.
Yup, positive appears to be like like a Battlefield sport. A rocket is fired right into a constructing, numerous mud and rubble falls down round troopers, an enormous tank parks itself helpfully in the course of the street.
The producers chat from a hypescript for a lot of the remainder of the video and hail from 4 totally different studios, all engaged on the sport in a roundabout way or one other: Cube, Criterion, Motive, and Ripple Impact. We already knew most of what the video covers, together with that the shooter may have a single participant marketing campaign, and that it will happen in a contemporary or near-future setting.
The one new factor is point out of a program referred to as “Battlefield Labs” by which members of the general public can join the possibility to playtest the sport. It looks as if a flowery means of claiming “signal an NDA and we’ll provide you with a take a look at construct”. EA (amongst different corporations) generally supply playtesters from the general public like this. Consider the open and ongoing testing completed for an additional EA studio, Full Circle, who like to observe individuals play Skate and presumably take notes when gamers fall and damage their little bum-bums.
As for the four-studio unity on show, it’s exhausting to take this show of company unity at face worth. Criterion’s function on the sport signifies that their plan to work on the subsequent Want For Pace sport is postponed. And Digital Arts did have a fifth crowd concerned on the marketing campaign at one level – Ridgeline Video games, a studio arrange by Halo sequence veteran Marcus Lehto. However EA shuttered that studio final yr. So, uh, no point out of them on this promo piece. Awkward.
