EA has finally unveiled Battlefield 6 with a thrilling launch trailer, giving us our best look yet at the single-player campaign.
It begins with the fictional US president discussing a "monstrous unprovoked attack" by the Pax Armata mercenaries, who are bankrolled by former NATO states seeking to plunge the world into global conflict. Interspersed with this speech are shots of soldiers fighting in the streets of what looks to be Los Angeles, as bridges and skyscrapers are blown to smithereens amid the chaos.
Destructible environments are at the forefront of this sequel.
While there's still no release date, leaks surfaced last night that EA is eyeing an October 10 launch, and that it might cost as much as $80 — a price tag so controversial that only yesterday, Xbox entirely walked back plans to sell its first-party holiday releases at that figure.
In the meantime, there are rumours of an open beta, and you can look forward to a multiplayer reveal next week on July 31 at 7:30am BST. But the trailer already gave us some idea of the grandiose scale of the game, with tanks, fighter jets, trench warfare, miniguns mounted in helicopters, and dogfights in urban subways...
