Battlefield 2142 - Concept Art

Battlefield 2142 is considered to be an old game now, but I don't care, it had some of the best gameplay and the best overall concept of all games in the Battlefield series created by Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment (DICE). If they are to EVER make another Sci-Fi Battlefield game, please for the love of god keep the same concept that you developers used in 2142 (ice age, EU vs PAC etc, Name: Battlefield 2143 perhaps?) and maybe even a single player campaign to expand the great Sci-Fi story after they make Battlefield 3 of course (which will be a GREAT game IMO). It would be a day one buy for me if they ever did make another 2142-related Battlefield game.

Also, keep the titan mode, but improve it so it doesn't lag like hell when you're onboard. Maybe have some parts of it destructable using your awesome Frostbite 2.0 engine? (E.g. anti-titan missile hits a deck, that deck opens up revealing a part of the outside, pod troopers may then enter that part of the titan which was once not available. It would get rid of that gay corridor grenade spamming defence tactic if that corridor were to open up. Just an idea, I don't have any technical knowledge on how you would be able to do that. But anyway, that would be a cool feature). Maybe, also, bring back the commander mode for that game in order to control the titan as a mobile base? Maybe you could also add elements of RTS gameplay for the commander rather than just giving orders, providing aerial-based-supports and moving a titan (e.g. have the titan deploy static defences sucher as mini-bunkers or deploy vehicles for the team members to use etc).

This video contains all of the official concept art for Battlefield 2142 which was either released to the public or leaked. I am sure there were other pieces of concept art for this game, but I haven't seen them. If anyone from DICE sees this video, please could release the rest of the concept art to the public for Battlefield fans like me?

Concept Artists:
• Tony Holmsten
• Unknown (Need more information, I will add their names if someone tells me who worked on the concept art for BF2142)

Concept Art Shown (by order):
• Maps
--- Verdun - "frenchcountry.jpg"
--- Camp Gibraltar(?) - "barracks_cityview.jpg"
--- Tunis Harbor - "barracks_rain.jpg"
--- Unknown - "crashed.jpg"
--- Cerbere Landing(?) - "main_street_snow,jpg"
--- Bridge at Remagen(?) - "main_street_revised.jpg"
--- Unknown - "morningfog.jpg"
--- Northern Mountain Pass (Cancelled Map) - "northern_pass.jpg" - The reason why there were planets in the background of the image was because Battlefield 2142 was originally intended to be based on another planet, a war between US and Russian colonies in space. This was changed later to Earth being consumed by an Ice Age with a war between the EU and PAC for reasons I do not know, maybe they wanted it to be a more 'down-to-earth" sci-fi?
--- Minsk(?) - "rockforrest.jpg"
--- Fall of Berlin - "berlin.jpg"
--- Camp Gibraltar - "refugee.jpg"
--- Belgrade - "belgrad01.jpg"
--- Suez Canal - "suez_light.jpg"
• Promotional
--- Scene In Teaser Trailer - "coming_of_the_ice_age.jpg"
--- Unknown - "city_war_aftermath"
--- Battle #1 - "BATTLE785-01_A3_MAG.jpg"
--- Battle #2 - "BATTLE785-01_A3.jpg"
--- EU Soldier, Heavy - Face + Helmet - "face_of_war"
• Props/Vehicles
--- Minsk Apartments - "city_towers.jpg"
--- PAC APC, BTR-4 'Romanov' - "pac_apc.jpg"
• Awards
--- Pin sketches/Badges - "2142-concept-art-10.jpg"
• Front Cover - "wallpaper_battlefield_2142_01_1920x1200.jpg"

Music Used:
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault - Plan In Motion

Made this video in about 46 minutes, not that long.

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[mandella644]

I'm sure you've heard about the bf3 '2143' easter egg - yeah, they're totally making a bf2143. :D Good to see 2142 is still alive and well with DETHKLOK splitting into two servers (each titan 64 rather than DK's previous t48) because of the fact that it was always full! O:

[JinRenegade]

@mandella644 didiMAU, a friend of mine, found that easter egg, I then posted it on the EA UK forums. That BF2143 image you see all over the place (the one with the L89A2 etc) was taken by me lol. Check Wikipedia - Possible Sequel and you'll see "Jinzor", that's me. But I don't really care anymore, anyone could have found it.

[Sonar90]

Man I love this game.. 2143 would be awesome :)

[TALON1138]

Excellent video, many happy memories playing BF2142, a sequel using Frostbite would be fantastic.

[CountPushkin1]

I love concept art, you get to see the evolution of a game. Can't wait for Battlefield 2143. Battlefield 2142 was the game that got me into Battlefield ;)

[Qwepir]

could you possibly upload these images to something like photobucket or imageshack?

[dvr24]

I love this game and i´m shure Ea games and DICE are doing some Battlefield 2152 with the frostbite 2.0

[realIBeliX]

@JinRenegade Sound awesome. I dont know how would that work out, it would be pretty hard to make that, I think I already have idea how, but that would be brain orbital strike for me.

[JinRenegade]

@realIBeliX Eh... I'm not sure. We were going to make a kind of manned orbital military/science satellite within Earth's atmosphere as the space-ish setting (explaining where the EMP strikes, orbital bombardments, drop pod soldiers from squad leader beacons come from etc) first as a kind of massive titan map somewhat similar to the ISA cruiser multiplayer map from Killzone 2.

We'll make that first then... "maybe" think of one set on another planet, maybe Mars or something.

[realIBeliX]

@JinRenegade Please, maybe make 2 maps for your NE mod which are based other planet (1 being the Northern Mountain Pass). I would love to help, but my mapping skills are horrible, I tried making BF2 and 2142 maps, but they look unrealistic and full of glitches. 

[JinRenegade]

@realIBeliX That's a good idea, never thought of that.

[realIBeliX]

@JinRenegade DICE probably didnt want to make it too futuristic, too sci-fi, because I remember many BF2 fans back then were shouting after 2142 announcment "OMfG, ew! Lasers!" and stuff like that.