DICE announced that Battlefield 1943 will be available on July 8th on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and July 9th on the PlayStation Network. Battlefield 1943 is an all-new download-only action game priced for £9.99 or 1200 MS Points.

Battlefield 1943 is a First-Person Shooter (FPS) multiplayer game that puts players in the middle of a dogfight on land, sea or in the skies. The game introduces two new modes that can be played across four classic Battlefield tropical WWII maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are inspired by the Battlefield 1942 game, but have been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE destructible Frostbite engine which takes down walls, blockades and cover spots, leaving players with almost nowhere to hide.

Up to 24 players can play together online as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy. When 43,000,000 kills on both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network will be reached, The Coral Sea map will be unlocked as part of a worldwide community challenge.

Gordon Van Dyke, Producer on Battlefield 1943:

“Battlefield 1943 is going to change consumer expectations of what a downloadable game can be. By offering Frostbite’s next generation destruction technology with a full Vehicle Warfare FPS multiplayer experience at a mere 560MB, Battlefield 1943 sets a new standard. Our goal is to blow people away with a fully accessible, retail-calibre game for veteran Battlefield fans and shooter fans alike to enjoy for only £9.99.”