| Battlefield 2142 | |
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| Developer(s) | DICE |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Director(s) | Lars Gustavsson |
| Designer(s) | Linus Josephson |
| Composer(s) | Gregor Narholz |
| Series | Battlefield |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Release | Microsoft Windows Northern Strike Mac OS X |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Battlefield 2142 is a 2006 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 2142 is set in 2142, depicting a war known as "The Cold War of the 22nd Century", in which two military superpowers – the European Union (EU) and Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) – battle for the remaining unfrozen land during a new ice age.[1]
The game was designed primarily for multiplayer gameplay and allows for a maximum of 64 players on a server or a maximum of 16 players in single player mode against bots on Conquest mode. It has its own ranking system to keep track of the user's statistics similar to the one used in its predecessor, Battlefield 2. It opens up new categories of vehicles and weapons not seen in Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2142 has an unlock system that allows the player to choose a new unlock every time they achieve a new rank instead of forcing the player to purchase items. A booster pack called Northern Strike contains new maps, unlocks, and vehicles; a deluxe edition was released that contains Battlefield 2142 and Northern Strike.
In July 2014, all online components of the game were deactivated following the shutdown of GameSpy.[2][3] The game's online multiplayer was revived by the Project Revive community in 2016.[4] However, the project was shut down in 2017 following a legal notice from Electronic Arts.[5][6] The game's online multiplayer is currently only playable with the community either 2142 Novgames Alliance Project or 2142 Reclamation Project formed after the shutdown of Project Revive.[7][8]
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