Separate from Bad Company 2, developer DICE has been hard at work on another installment in the main line of Battlefield franchise titles for quite some time — around three years to be exact. While details remain coy, former DICE CEO and co-founder Fredrik Liliegren says Battlefield 3, as its tentatively named, is primed to “blow everyone away” on PC.

Well I knew that they were going to the console route because the numbers on the PC where dwindling. I know what they were talking about on the PC side for [the next] Battlefield, and they haven’t announced any of that yet, after three years, so I know what’s coming, and I still can’t talk about it because I’m still under NDA (non-disclosure agreement).

What the PC version is going to be, Battlefield 3, I think it’s going to absolutely blow everyone away, but I can’t tell you what it is, but it will blow people away.

A strong vote of confidence there from someone who is no longer directly tied to the company. Further, Liliegren called the in-development effort a radically difference experience to that of Modern Warfare 2. No surprise there.

Battlefield 3 Will ‘Absolutely Blow Everyone Away’ [Gaming Union]

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