I enjoyed Battlefield: Bad Company. I mean, sure, it wasn't up to par with the original 1942 just like BF2 wasn't, but it was a nice change. Look at it this way, they could've just released another slight modification on their BF2 engine, called it Battlefield 2242, and had nanosuits and space combat in it.

The only problem I see, is that the Frostbite Engine doesn't seem like a very 'Multiplayer' tuned engine. From what I've seen so far from 1943 and BC, the player limit is hit at 24. If they could increase this to 64+, then I could easily see it becoming a great PC game.

To be honest I could see the Frostbite engine being used for a more 'Singleplayer' type experience, though. It's already been mentioned into infinity, I think, that Black 2 could really benefit from the engine (ignoring for a second that the original Black was mediocre at best).

However, if I have to see Wake Island one more hamsters damned time...

Yeah, the launcher ist great, when it works proberly

Remove launcher and insert:

Communism
Hindenburg
internet
verb

To be honest:
In this time all games get their first really beta-test at the paying customer.

It's an illusion to think you can make a Beta with 1000 or even 10 000 people testing a month and no new problem will be deteced if 100 000 copys are sold and the game is played for years.
The most important Question is how DICE will handel such problems.

A big open Beta like in 2142 or BF Heroes is one thing was has been done by DICE.
Build in features for Bugreporting and a auto downloader for hotfixes and patches (maybe on filesharing basis like bittorrent) are some things BF2 and BF 2142 are missing and should part of the next Battlefield Part.

I hope people remember this next time they complain about a bug in FS!

auto downloader.........I've seen this in something for 2142 recently..can't think where though

So, its really a beta thats open to the paying public.

To be honest:
In this time all games get their first really beta-test at the paying customer.

It's an illusion to think you can make a Beta with 1000 or even 10 000 people testing a month and no new problem will be deteced if 100 000 copys are sold and the game is played for years.
The most important Question is how DICE will handel such problems.

A big open Beta like in 2142 or BF Heroes is one thing was has been done by DICE.
Build in features for Bugreporting and a auto downloader for hotfixes and patches (maybe on filesharing basis like bittorrent) are some things BF2 and BF 2142 are missing and should part of the next Battlefield Part.

but a small and quick project to get new players and test the Frostbite Engine on PC.

So, its really a beta thats open to the paying public.

sounds like an arcade shooter for newbies to me. Nothing that would satisfy the hardcore battlefield fans.

Jepp, thats exactly that DICE has said:
Nothing for the BF Hardcore Fans, but a small and quick project to get new players and test the Frostbite Engine on PC.

If you take a look at the many BF2 InfOnly / NoCommander Servers there only 3 classes are played (medic, support, sniper) this game could be also for the BF2 Hardcore Players.
They must only remove the Tanks & Aircrafts and make a Karkand map...

But in any case, it's the first "true" BF Game for consoles.
No Story, no campaing, only Multiplayer. Maybe it's a test for this kind of game in the console market as well.

Bleh EA is so lame. A few months ago they gave us news about how there was gonna be a game that maybe was "bf3". Said that it was going to have up to 128 players and a whole bunch of other things...sadly they never live up to what they say, like with every game they make.

BF3 was only a rumour, EA and DICE denied it.

Or that might end up being another terrible port as well. I hope not. But the was I see it is that 1943 might just be a test for the frostbite engine on PC, in the lead up to BC2