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 following 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 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 midst of the street.
The producers chat from a hypescript for a lot of the remainder of the video and hail from 4 completely 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 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” wherein members of the general public can join the prospect to playtest the sport. It looks like a flowery approach of claiming “signal an NDA and we’ll offer you a check construct”. EA (amongst different firms) generally supply playtesters from the general public like this. Consider the open and ongoing testing finished for an additional EA studio, Full Circle, who like to look at folks 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 position on the sport signifies that their plan to work on the following Want For Velocity 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 collection veteran Marcus Lehto. However EA shuttered that studio final yr. So, uh, no point out of them on this promo piece. Awkward.