Battlefield 6, or whatever the new game is called, is getting its full reveal later this summer, but for now, some of the developers working on the game’s campaign have teased what to expect in terms of the story.
Creative director Roman Campos-Oriola of EA Motive told Inverse that the game’s campaign was inspired in part by the Taylor Sheridan TV show Lioness. The show stars Marvel’s Zoe Saldana as a CIA officer who heads up the “Lioness” program of female operators.
Senior producer Philippe Ducharme, meanwhile, said he was a big fan of Oscar-nominated director Alex Garland’s 2023 war movie, Civil War, which followed a team of journalists covering a new American civil war. “Some of the things that we’re pushing [in this game], the film is actually a good reference,” Ducharme said.
Campos-Oriola said a guiding theme for the Battlefield 6 campaign is exploring the concept of “talented but ordinary people put in extraordinary situations.”
“That creates a very interesting dynamic in terms of relationships with other people. These are elements we’re looking to capture in the single player,” the developer said.
EA Motive previously developed the 2023 Dead Space remake, and Ducharme said that game is “obviously very different” from Battlefield. However, the Ducharme said the idea was to explore the “curve of tension” of the “highs and the lows to keep players hooked.”
In addition to the campaign, Battlefield 6 will of course have a substantial multiplayer element, and DICE is returning to develop it. It’s also rumored that the Portal mode from Battlefield 2042 might come back.
EA is currently conducting early testing for the game as part of the Battlefield Labs program, and it’s spawned numerous leaks with players sharing footage publicly even though EA forbids this.
Battlefield 6 has no release date, but some believe it might release as soon as this fall. Officially, EA has confirmed that it’s on track for release by the end of March 2026. Now that GTA 6 is delayed to 2026, EA recently teased that Battlefield 6’s release window is clearer than before following GTA 6’s delay.
