The newest version, Frostbite 3, came out with Battlefield 4.įrostbite debuted in 2008 with Battlefield: Bad Company. Some notable Frostbite 2 powered games include Need for Speed: The Run, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel. The creation of Frostbite 2 started the first usage of the Frostbite engine by other EA studios other than DICE. (The single-player was developed by another EA studio with the Unreal Engine 3.) The next generation of the engine, Frostbite 2, debuted with the release of Battlefield 3. Frostbite 1.5 was also used for the multiplayer component of Medal of Honor which DICE developed.
The Frostbite engine launched with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company subsequent titles employed an updated version referred to as Frostbite 1.5. Thus far, the engine is exclusive to Electronic Arts with all titles being published by EA.ĭICE used the first generation of the engine for their in-house games Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
The engine was first used by DICE to create first-person shooters, but it has been expanded to include various other genres such as racing and real-time strategy and is employed by a number of EA studios. The engine currently is designed for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms and is adapted for a range of video game genres. Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox Oneįrostbite is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, the creators of the Battlefield series.