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EA has been talking up the next Battlefield game for some time now, and while we still haven't gotten a proper reveal, the devs have now unveiled the first piece of concept art for the game and confirmed it's returning that Battlefield 6 will return to a modern day setting.
"If you look back to the peak or the pinnacle of Battlefield, it's that Battlefield 3... Battlefield 4 era where everything was modern," Respawn and Battlefield boss Vince Zampella tells IGN alongside the reveal of the new concept art. "And I think we have to get back to the core of what Battlefield is and do that amazingly well, and then we'll see where it goes from there. But I think for me, it's that peak of Battlefield-ness is in that Battlefield 3 and 4 days. So I think it's nostalgic for players, for me, for the teams even. Those are kind of the heyday… although I would say 1942 also."
Zampella says the game will stick to the 64 player approach, and notes that the controversial Specialists system from 2042 will not be returning. "Not everybody liked it, but you got to try things," Zampella says of the Specialist system. "It didn't work. It didn't fit. Specialists will not be coming back. Classes are kind of at the core of Battlefield, and we're going back to that."
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The last entry in the FPS series ended up being something of a punching bag for longtime fans, though like many ongoing games, Battlefield 2042 eventually followed a long road to redemption. But while Zampella argues that 2042 wasn't a "failure of a game," the devs have no intention of repeating its mistakes here. "We want it to be good out of the gate."
The devs are already hosting weekly internal playtests for the upcoming game, and they intend to begin a public playtest program next year.
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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