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DICE just dropped a five-minute trailer that ends with a tornado swallowing a skyscraper, and the internet hasn’t stopped talking about it since.

Electronic Arts and DICE pulled the wraps off Battlefield 2042 on June 9, 2021, capping a one-hour countdown stream with a nearly five-minute cinematic reveal trailer. The clip confirmed an October 22, 2021 release across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and set up a full gameplay reveal for June 13. The tone is different this time — less grim war-movie, more disaster-blockbuster chaos, and the trailer wastes no time proving it.

• The reveal trailer confirmed Battlefield 2042 launches October 22, 2021, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and Xbox One, with a gameplay reveal scheduled for June 13, 2021.
• The game returns to modern-era sandbox combat with up to 128-player matches on PC and next-gen consoles.
• The trailer opens with an Osprey aircraft crashing into a rooftop helipad and closes with a massive tornado tearing through a metropolitan map.

A World Gone Sideways

Battlefield 2042 drops players into a near-future setting ravaged by climate chaos, natural disasters, and global conflict — a deliberate shift away from the historical settings the franchise has leaned on in recent entries. The cinematic opens violently: an Osprey aircraft slams into a rooftop helipad, kicking off a chain of battle sequences that sprawl across icy tundras, dense cityscapes, and desert launch facilities. It’s a tonal statement as much as a gameplay tease, signaling that DICE wants this game to feel unpredictable in ways the series hasn’t attempted before.

The Rendezook, Immortalized

Longtime Battlefield players got a very specific wink buried in the trailer. During a dogfight sequence, a pilot ejects from his jet cockpit mid-air, fires a rocket launcher at the enemy jet chasing him, and then falls back into his own cockpit to keep flying. That’s a direct nod to the “Rendezook,” a legendary community-made stunt that’s been a running joke and a bucket-list trick shot across multiple Battlefield titles for years. Seeing DICE script it directly into official marketing is the clearest sign yet that the studio is leaning into the community’s own chaos rather than fighting it.

An Osprey crashes into a rooftop helipad to open the trailer — and by the end, a tornado is tearing the same kind of skyline apart.

New Toys on the Battlefield

Beyond the disaster-movie set pieces, the trailer showcases the tools players will actually be fighting with. A soldier uses a wingsuit to glide across a collapsing cityscape, while ground and air combat spans quad bikes, attack helicopters, tanks, and fighter jets — all in service of the franchise’s signature sandbox scale, now pushed to 128 players per match on PC and next-gen consoles. The dynamic weather angle isn’t just cosmetic set dressing either; the tornado sequence suggests environmental hazards will factor directly into how matches play out, not just how they look.

The Soundtrack Choice

DICE set the entire trailer to a dramatic remix of Mötley Crüe’s “Kickstart My Heart,” reworked by 2WEI. It’s a departure from the somber orchestral cues that have scored past Battlefield reveals, and it matches the trailer’s pivot toward loud, chaotic, over-the-top action rather than grounded war drama. Between the music, the Rendezook cameo, and the tornado finale, EA and DICE clearly built this reveal to be shared and dissected clip by clip — the same instinct that’s driven hype cycles around other next-gen showcases, like the recent Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase.

The countdown now shifts to June 13, when DICE is set to show actual gameplay rather than cinematic spectacle — the moment that will tell players whether 128-player matches, wingsuits, and tornadoes hold up when someone’s actually holding the controller.