EA AND DIGITAL ILLUSIONS ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 18, 2003 - Lock and load your M-16 and grab your flak jacket, it's time to hit the jungle in Battlefield Vietnam™. Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) announced today that Battlefield Vietnam for the PC is under development and expects to debut in early 2004. The title will be published and distributed by Electronic Arts under the EA GAMES™ brand.

The Battlefield franchise is entering a new era with more firepower and beautiful yet ferocious new combat settings. Staying true to the over-the-top, action-packed multiplayer style that gave Battlefield 1942™ its critical and commercial success, Battlefield Vietnam will drop players into some of the Vietnam War's fiercest battles. Fighting in theatres from jungles surrounding the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the city streets of Hue, players will choose from two well-equipped forces, the United States or the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Vietcong. [more]

As you can read in the description provided by the game makers, Chrome offers very extensive maps in the single player mode. But it is obvious that most of the players can’t wait to connect to the game server and face live opponents. Well, we have prepared a nice and interesting surprise for those of you who can’t wait – views from a beautifully embellished map – Borderland, where players will fight in everglades heavily covered with plant life. This map is created in the Domination mode, which means controlling checkpoints with flags. Shrubs, bushes and enormous trees growing in the middle of the everglades create a unique atmosphere of the game.

SJ: I love the claustrophobic feeling of the jungle that you captured in the game. What would you say you are most proud of with LOS?

JZ: Without question the jungle is our biggest achievement. The reason it looks as good as it does is because of an artist who is obsessed with making “the perfect jungle”, and me, the lowly graphics programming slave, tasked with getting those thousands of trees to render fast and look pretty. It’s really cool to see so many reviews of our little game that say we have the best jungle of any game. Being a budget title and having the “best” of something is pretty rare. [...]