My most anticipated game of 2025 is a game with no title and no date, but it’s one I hope will make me fall in love with my favourite shooter series all over again

Will the subsequent Battlefield save the sequence and convey it again as a significant participant within the shooter house? Is that one thing that it might even do? EA will surely like the reply to each of these inquiries to be ‘sure’, and the writer has been working to safe each attainable benefit to assist get it there.

These ambitions might simply crash on the shore of a horrible launch, leaving it to solely be appreciated by the few who’ve caught with Battlefield all these years. As a longtime fan, I actually need this subsequent Battlefield to not solely ship, I additionally desire a new staple shooter to return to frequently.

We all know little or no – virtually nothing – concerning the subsequent Battlefield recreation. EA hasn’t even formally stated whether or not it’ll be popping out in 2025, however the timeline and all recent developments at the publisher’s various studios make me suppose that 2025 is the yr that makes essentially the most sense.

EA wants to recreate the Call of Duty: Warzone setup with the subsequent Battlefield, so it might be that the core, premium recreation comes out in late-2025, just for the free-to-play battle royale mode to comply with early in 2026.

We all know that some form of testing will begin early in 2025, however it’s prone to be restricted and closely NDA’d, so it could not find yourself informing us concerning the nature of the sport in a satisfying manner. All indications inform us that the subsequent Battlefield can have a modern day setting, and that it will be a return to the series’ longstanding classes format.

None of that ensures that we’re going to get a “good” recreation, in fact – it simply reveals that EA’s head, not less than relating to figuring out what gamers need, is in the suitable place. That is what has me excited to really see and play it.

The factor about Battlefield is that a lot of its core components may be discovered elsewhere. Mixed arms fight, asymmetrical lessons, slower gameplay, massive maps – and even destruction in some circumstances – all of them exist in different video games. However no single shooter combines them in fairly the identical manner. Even the lately launched Delta Force solely serves as a reminder of why that formula is not easy to recreate, as perplexing as that might be.

The extra failures Battlefield produces, nevertheless, the extra that notion fades. Everyone knows many former Battlefield gamers that now spend their time in different video games, and I’m keen to guess that none of them would inform you that any of these video games can scratch the identical itch – they solely provide sufficient to maintain you hooked, however not a lot you can actually name them of them “the subsequent Battlefield.”