Battlefield 1943 is now backward-compatible on Xbox One

Microsoft has announced that DICE's multiplayer WW2 shooter Battlefield 1943 is the latest title to join its heaving backward-compatibility list on Xbox One.

Battlefield 1943 was a console-only, digital-only effort and launched on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2009. It was DICE's second stab at a WW2 shooter, arriving seven years after the original Battlefield 1942, and offered an economically designed, laser-focussed take on the series' classic multiplayer action.

Set during WW2's Pacific Theatre of Operations, Battlefield 1943 cast players as either United States Marine Corps or the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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