Ice breaker: why Frostbite is EA's Xbox One engine of choice

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Ice breaker: why Frostbite is EA's Xbox One engine of choice

Added: 02.02.2014 8:00 | 12 views | 0 comments

A chat with the creators of Battlefield 4 and Need for Speed: Rivals.
Perhaps more than any other videogame franchise save notorious PC-melter Crysis, Battlefield is defined by the tools that are used to create it. When EA unveiled the fourth game over winter 2012, the publisher treated the game's updated version of the "next-gen proof" Frostbite engine to a standalone presentation - a poke in the eye, among other things, for Call of Duty's dependable but unspectacular id Tech-derived code.