Battlefield RescueMy most anticipated game of 2025 is a game with no title and no date, but its one I hope will make me fall in love with my favourite shooter series all over againThe next Battlefield, whatever it ends up being called, will define the future of the series, for good or ill. None of us know much about it, but I cant wait to see and play it.Image credit: DICE/Electronic Arts Article by Sherif Saed Contributing Editor Published on Dec. 31, 2024 Will the next Battlefield save the series and bring it back as a major player in the shooter space? Is that something that it could even do? EA would certainly like the answer to both of those questions to be yes, and the publisher has been working to secure every possible advantage to help get it there.Those ambitions could easily crash at the shore of a terrible launch, leaving it to only be appreciated by the few whove stuck with Battlefield all those years. As a longtime fan, I really want this next Battlefield to not only deliver, I also want a new staple shooter to go back to regularly.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. We know very little - almost nothing - about the next Battlefield game. EA hasnt even officially said whether itll be coming out in 2025, but the timeline and all recent developments at the publishers various studios make me think that 2025 is the year that makes the most sense.EA wants to recreate the Call of Duty: Warzone setup with the next Battlefield, so it could be that the core, premium game comes out in late-2025, only for the free-to-play battle royale mode to follow early in 2026.We know that some form of testing will begin early in 2025, but its likely to be limited and heavily NDAd, so it may not end up informing us about the nature of the game in a satisfying way. All indications tell us that the next Battlefield will have a modern day setting, and that it will be a return to the series longstanding classes format. How exactly will the Warzone formula influence how this next Battlefield looks? We'll have to wait and see. | Image credit: Activision, Treyarch, Raven.None of that guarantees that were going to get a good game, of course - it just shows that EAs head, at least when it comes to identifying what players want, is in the right place. This is what has me excited to actually see and play it.The thing about Battlefield is that many of its core elements can be found elsewhere. Combined arms combat, asymmetrical classes, slower gameplay, large maps - and even destruction in some cases - they all exist in other games. But no single shooter combines them in quite the same way. Even the recently released Delta Force only serves as a reminder of why that formula is not easy to recreate, as perplexing as that might be.The more failures Battlefield produces, however, the more that perception fades. We all know many former Battlefield players that now spend their time in other games, and Im willing to bet that none of them would tell you that any of those games can scratch the same itch - they only offer enough to keep you hooked, but not so much that you can truly call them of them the next Battlefield.