Patrick Bach, executive producer at DICE, has admitted the company is eager to move on to the next iteration of gaming platforms, and firmly believes that its upcoming blaster Battlefield 3 will look just like ‘a next-generation game.’
Speaking during a chinwag with CVG, Bach observed that its highly lauded frostbite 2.0 engine is already pushing existing hardware to its limits, and believes the swanky technology would "scale" to new platforms with relative ease.
“We are desperate to move on into the next generation,” said Bach. “I think Battlefield 3 will look like a next-generation game and all the technology we’re building, the whole Frostbite 2 system – the animations, audio, everything – is trying to aim for a couple of years in the future, rather than looking at what we have today.”
As for how well the hotly-anticipated Battlefield 3 will cope with the transition to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Bach insisted the military shooter will be “if not the best-looking console game this year, up there with the competition.”
Battlefield 3 is due out in fall 2011 for PS3, PC and Xbox 360 platforms.