Battlefield 1943
Using the Frostbite engine, Battlefield 1943 takes players back to WWII. The game offers hours of 24 player multiplayer action over three classic and tropic locations; Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima…
Battlefield 1943 is a shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 8 July 2009 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Battlefield 1943 is
Battlefield 1943 is a shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2009. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Frostbite.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battlefield 1943 is a 2009 first-person shooter game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 through digital distribution. It is the eighth installment in the Battlefield series. It takes place in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II. A Microsoft Windows version was planned but later cancelled.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 24 players online.
Where it sits in the Battlefield series
Battlefield 1943 is the seventh of 22 entries we hold in the Battlefield series. It arrived a year after Battlefield: Bad Company. The next entry was Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in 2010. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Battlefield 2 at 93.
How it was received
Battlefield 1943 holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Battlefield 1943 launched on 8 July 2009, within three weeks of Trine Enchanted Edition, Wii Sports Resort, Trine and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Trine Enchanted Edition, Wii Sports Resort, Trine, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Battlefield 1943 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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