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The competition between DICE and fellow first-person shooter developers -- presumably Call of Duty devs Infinity Ward and Treyarch in particular -- is heating up. Karl-Magnus Troedsson, the general manager of DICE, which is working on Battlefield 3, has claimed that the way other FPS developers are operating is "lazy" and issued a warning.
"Our competitors are getting lazy," he told Official PlayStation Magazine UK. "They're using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago."
No names were named, but the Call of Duty games have been running on the same base game engine for years now -- Modern Warfare and its sequel , World at War , and Black Ops all use the IW Engine first seen in Call of Duty 2 . As for the next CoD game, thought to be Modern Warfare 3 , there's been no indication that Infinity Ward will make a departure from the norm.
Following up on what he said before, Troedsson referred to the 'leap' DICE is taking by using the brand new Frostbite 2.0 engine for Battlefield 3 when he said, "We are doing that now. They had better watch out. We are coming for them."
He later claimed, "Our competitors keep building very, very high tempo games. We want to tell a story with more drama curves. It's not about pumping round after round for six hours."
This isn't the first time that DICE has directed shots at the developers of Call of Duty -- it reassured PC fans back in 2009 that Battlefield would not go the way of CoD, and it has also bashed Activision's handling of DLC. If it continues to follow the same pattern Activision has been going with for years, the next Call of Duty will be out this November. A release date has yet to be set for Battlefield 3, but it's expected to be out at some point this fall, setting up a showdown between the two FPS heavyweights.
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Battlefield 3 developer DICE has thrown down the gauntlet in the raging battle for first-person shooter supremacy, warning its rivals: We're coming for you.
Speaking in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine - which is arriving with subscribers now - DICE general manager, Karl-Magnus Troedsson was more than confident in his stunning FPS, cautioning the competition: "they had better watch out".
"Our competitors are getting lazy," he said. "They're using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago.
"We are doing that now. They had better watch out. We are coming for them."
If it was any other developer of course we'd scoff, but Battlefield 3 is looking like seriously hot stuff, running on the stunning Frostbite 2.0 engine which DICE claims allows for essentially a 'next-gen' game on current-gen systems.
But of course the shadow of Call of Duty looms large over every military shooter - especially those confident enough to tread all over its modern day, middle-east territory.
But DICE is still bullish - and it should be. "Our competitors keep building very, very high tempo games. We want to tell a story with more drama curves. It's not about pumping round after round for six hours," Troedsson told OPM.
Read what we thought of Battlefield 3 in our recent eyes-on preview. It's looking special.
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"Our competitors are getting lazy," he told Official PlayStation Magazine UK. "They're using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago."
No names were named, but the Call of Duty games have been running on the same base game engine for years now -- Modern Warfare and its sequel , World at War , and Black Ops all use the IW Engine first seen in Call of Duty 2 . As for the next CoD game, thought to be Modern Warfare 3 , there's been no indication that Infinity Ward will make a departure from the norm.
Following up on what he said before, Troedsson referred to the 'leap' DICE is taking by using the brand new Frostbite 2.0 engine for Battlefield 3 when he said, "We are doing that now. They had better watch out. We are coming for them."
He later claimed, "Our competitors keep building very, very high tempo games. We want to tell a story with more drama curves. It's not about pumping round after round for six hours."
This isn't the first time that DICE has directed shots at the developers of Call of Duty -- it reassured PC fans back in 2009 that Battlefield would not go the way of CoD, and it has also bashed Activision's handling of DLC. If it continues to follow the same pattern Activision has been going with for years, the next Call of Duty will be out this November. A release date has yet to be set for Battlefield 3, but it's expected to be out at some point this fall, setting up a showdown between the two FPS heavyweights.
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Battlefield 3 developer DICE has thrown down the gauntlet in the raging battle for first-person shooter supremacy, warning its rivals: We're coming for you.
Speaking in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine - which is arriving with subscribers now - DICE general manager, Karl-Magnus Troedsson was more than confident in his stunning FPS, cautioning the competition: "they had better watch out".
"Our competitors are getting lazy," he said. "They're using the same engine, the same recipe for building a game. At some point you need to take that leap. I haven't seen them take that leap since a long time ago.
"We are doing that now. They had better watch out. We are coming for them."
If it was any other developer of course we'd scoff, but Battlefield 3 is looking like seriously hot stuff, running on the stunning Frostbite 2.0 engine which DICE claims allows for essentially a 'next-gen' game on current-gen systems.
But of course the shadow of Call of Duty looms large over every military shooter - especially those confident enough to tread all over its modern day, middle-east territory.
But DICE is still bullish - and it should be. "Our competitors keep building very, very high tempo games. We want to tell a story with more drama curves. It's not about pumping round after round for six hours," Troedsson told OPM.
Read what we thought of Battlefield 3 in our recent eyes-on preview. It's looking special.
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