Be careful for that falling breezeblock! It is about to– ah, too late, you have been donked. A clip of loud wreckage, gunfire, and bazooka’d buildings has fallen dustily into our lap by way of 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 a giant recreation about “levelling up” the “core expertise”, which appears to stay blasting a constructing you do not like with a rocket-propelled grenade. We will inform from the ultimate 10 seconds of the video, which present a few of the recreation’s precise operating and/or gunning.
Yup, certain appears like a Battlefield recreation. A rocket is fired right into a constructing, a lot of mud and rubble falls down round troopers, a giant tank parks itself helpfully in the midst of the highway.
The producers chat from a hypescript for many of the remainder of the video and hail from 4 completely different studios, all engaged on the sport ultimately or one other: Cube, Criterion, Motive, and Ripple Impact. We already knew most of what the video covers, together with that the shooter can 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” during which members of the general public can join the prospect to playtest the sport. It looks like a elaborate approach of claiming “signal an NDA and we’ll provide you with a check construct”. EA (amongst different firms) generally supply playtesters from the general public like this. Consider the open and ongoing testing carried out for one more EA studio, Full Circle, who like to observe individuals play Skate and presumably take notes when gamers fall and harm their little bum-bums.
As for the four-studio unity on show, it’s laborious 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 recreation 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 12 months. So, uh, no point out of them on this promo piece. Awkward.