Electronic Arts announced the upcoming release of DICE’s Battlefield game sequels, called Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The two games will be available on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

“Bad Company 2 takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante – more vehicles, more destruction and more team play,” explained Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer Battlefield Franchise, DICE. The players will be able to use a heavy arsenal of weapons and also a wide variety of vehicles in order to complete their missions.

Battlefield 1943 will take the gamers to the World War II, displaying three reworked maps from Battlefield 1942 - Guadalcanal, Wake Island and Iwo Jima. The game, which will rely on EA’s new Frostbite engine, will allow a maximum of 24 players, significantly lower than the number allowed by previous releases – 64 players. The official presentation made by DICE and EA notes that the game: "will have players battling in ruthless aerial dog fights and intense trench combat."

DICE’s Battlefield 1942 game debuted on the Windows platform back in 2002. The new 1943 was described as "a new take on a blast from the past classic."

Battlefield 1943 is expected for release sometime this summer, while Bad Company 2 should come out later in the year around winter. A first for the series is that Battlefield 1943 will also be available for download on PC, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store. Fans will just have to wait it out, and over the next few months the company will also announce the exact release date.