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Battlefield 1943 Now Available On PS3

Fancy a wee taster before today’s big event? Head on over to your Japanese account.

Alex C [nofi] - Editor
Thursday, July 9, 2009 / 6:00

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Fancy getting your hands on Battlefield 1943 before everyone else in Europe and the States?  It’ll be 10 hours until the game is out in Europe and another 6 or so on top of that before it lands in America, but Battlefield 1943 is now out on the Japanese PSN Store and it’s fully in English.  Look for バトルフィールド 1943 体験版 which is the demo version, grab the download, switch back to your normal account and you’re off and running.

We don’t yet know if you’ll be able to purchase the full Euro version from within the Japanese version, we’d assume not, but if you don’t mind using up 500MB of bandwidth just to grab 30 minutes with the game then this will be your best option for a taster until the full game lands later today.  We’ve been playing 1943 since yesterday and we absolutely love it, watch out for a full review on the site as soon as possible, and keep an eye on our Store Update post for all today’s F5 Thursday madness.

Thanks, kassatsu.

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  1. AcidCrashX (526 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jun 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 06:56

    thanks for the heads-up!

  2. mark w. (488 TSA Points)
    Member since: Mar 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 07:23

    I must wait until this evening so I can grab the demo directly from the EU-store.

  3. Erroneus (2632 TSA Points)
    Member since: May 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 08:25

    Madness you say? THIS IS SIXTH AXIS!

    Sorry :P

  4. superjag86 (559 TSA Points)
    Member since: Feb 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 08:53

    Awesome! This is the first PSN release that has got me excited since the Big Surf Island release.

  5. smokeybeef (226 TSA Points)
    Member since: Feb 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:14

    I played a brief round against nofi and FRUITofDOOM last night, naturally I killed myself more than killing either of them.

    • nofi (Editor)
      Member since: Forever
      Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:34

      It’s fun playing a game for the first time, eh? :)

  6. hannes_truce (2734 TSA Points)
    Member since: Sep 2008
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:16

    Damnit. why could’nt i have read this before leaving home this morning as opposed to when i got to work. i would’ve pulled a sicky.
    I’m soooo hyped for this game :-D

  7. BigD-UK- (152 TSA Points)
    Member since: Nov 2008
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:35

    Must read the whole artical before rushing to euro psn store next time!

  8. haza103 (416 TSA Points)
    Member since: Dec 2008
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:43

    I heard the servers are getting mullered on the 360, let’s hope it all runs smoothly over here!

  9. Jumping Monks (851 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jan 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:45

    Having just completed the “half hour” demo. It seems to me I was playing for an hour. I think that it lets you complete the match before it kicks you out. Luckily for me, before I started my last match I had 5 mins left, and if the match took half hour or so, then I got an extra 25 minutes. I can confirm this is great fun, and I’ll be buying it the minute it’s released. Bring on the update!

    • nofi (Editor)
      Member since: Forever
      Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:52

      Psst: you can get another 30 minutes with another PSN account.

      • Jumping Monks (851 TSA Points)
        Member since: Jan 2009
        Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 10:06

        You expect me to go through that ordeal again of making other accounts, navigating those pages all in Japanese wasn’t fun. It did cross my mind though. I think I’ll just wait until later though.

  10. Amphlett (717 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jul 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 09:58

    Woah, someone’s working overtime to track down Battlefield for us! Thank you Nofi.

  11. Carl (570 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jan 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 10:46

    Awesome. I’m gunna be buying it anyway, but i’ll download this, because if it’s anything like the 360 version, the server will be getting abolutely hammered tonight

  12. BoyDay (724 TSA Points)
    Member since: Oct 2008
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 11:14

    Not cool Nofi – I read the tweet which only shows the headline, so gotmyself out of bed, turned on my PS3 and couldn’t find it because I only looked on the UK PSN. Basically I got up for nothing.

    Cock tease! :(

    • nofi (Editor)
      Member since: Forever
      Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 11:21

      Well look on the Japanese PSN then FFS.

  13. Carl (570 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jan 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 14:00

    Had a bezz (i managed to get more than an hour out of it due to well timed matches

    Good fun though i did get bored after a while

  14. makibah (277 TSA Points)
    Member since: Jun 2009
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 16:04

    Awesome. Also I was USMC, thought it was quite funny how it’s available on the japanese store first (they are kind of the bad guys). Hope I’m not promoting xenophobia

    • colossalblue (Staff)
      Member since: Forever
      Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 16:38

      They’re only the bad guys because they lost the war. Because America dropped atomic bombs on two huge civilian populations. So it depends on your perception really doesn’t it? :)

  15. TheDeathAvenger (1453 TSA Points)
    Member since: Forever
    Posted on: 09/07/2009 at 17:10

    Just checked and can confirm that you cannot use the Japanese trial of Battlefield 1943 with the UK unlock code. I just wish the UK trial would hurry up and download, I can’t wait to play more of that great game.

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