One of those mods, Desert Combat, blasted the game out of World War II and into contemporary warfare, proving to publisher EA and developer DICE that there was an interest in modern warfare before the release of Battlefield 2.Īnother mod, Galactic Conquest, a Star Wars-themed take on the Battlefield 1942 formula, showed publisher LucasArts and developer Pandemic Studios that the Battlefield formula was a great fit for the Star Wars space. Battlefield 1942 went on to be a huge success and spawned not only sequels, but popular PC mods. Refraction Games merged with another Stockholm-based developer called Digital Illusions CE (that’s DICE for everyone keeping track) and, together, they built Battlefield 1942 for the PC.Ĭodename Eagle.Battlefield 1942 played like the lovechild of Codename Eagle and what appeared to be part of the recycled feature list of Valve’s cancelled Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms. This World War I-themed first-person shooter was built by a Stockholm-based developer called Refraction Games, and mixed on-foot shootouts with vehicular warfare. Before there was Battlefield, there was a game called Codename Eagle.
A long time ago…But first, a history lesson. Read on for a breakdown of the biggest differences between the two DICE IPs.
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