Early playtest · Windows PC · Free fan project
It never came to PC. Until now.
Battlefield 1943, the Xbox 360 game, running natively on Windows, with its online multiplayer brought back on servers anyone can run.
You need your own Xbox 360 copy of the game. No game files are included or shared. How it works
- Playtest
- Open now
- Latest build
- 0.1.33 preview
- Players
- Up to 24 a server
- Maps
- Four, in rotation
- Runs on
- Windows 10 and 11
The playtest trailer · 1 minute 25 seconds
See it move
What Reborn adds
Back online, and built for PC
The game's original servers were retired. Reborn brings online play back on its own servers, with up to 24 players a match, and gives the game the PC options it never had.
Online
Multiplayer
Play now on official servers
Run by TRG Studios and open today. Press Play and you go straight into the busiest server with room.
Or host your own server
Free to run on a Windows PC, with your own name, maps and playstyle.
All servers show up in the server browser
Official and community servers, each with its map, its players and your ping. Join any of them.
Graphics
A sharper Pacific
Up to 4K, at any frame rate
Render at up to 2160p, three times the console's 720p, with a frame rate limit from 30 to 240 or none.
New lighting
Ambient occlusion and global illumination add soft contact shadows and bounced sunlight to every map.
Enhanced vegetation
New grass and shrubs on Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, drawn as far out as the whole map.
Controls
Play it your way
Keyboard and mouse
On by default beside any controller. The mouse aims vehicle guns and turrets directly.
Controllers with the right buttons
Xbox and PlayStation button pictures, PS5 included, picked to match the controller in your hands.
Your view, your buttons
A field of view from 60 to 120 degrees, and every button and key can be remapped.
Playstyle
Modern and Classic servers
Every server plays one of two ways, and the server list says which: (Modern) or (Classic).
(Modern)
Aiming and movement that feel like today's shooters.
- Aim responds at once, with a clean curve and no acceleration lag.
- Faster aiming down sights.
- Snappier movement.
- Fire sooner after a sprint.
(Classic)
The game exactly as it played on the Xbox 360 in 2009.
- The original aim acceleration and turn speed.
- The original movement and timings.
- For players who want it as it was.
Both use all of Reborn's new graphics: higher resolutions, new lighting, antialiasing and every advanced setting. Only how the camera and your soldier move is different.
Your own choice is in Settings, Gameplay, Playstyle. Pressing Play looks for servers that play your way.
The battlefields
Four maps, two ways to fight
Three islands to take in Conquest, and the open sky of Air Superiority. Each server plays its own rotation and moves to the next map when a round ends.
- Wake IslandConquest
- GuadalcanalConquest
- Iwo JimaConquest
- Coral SeaAir Superiority
Get started
Three steps to the front
Step 1 of 3
Download
Get the Windows download from the latest release, unzip it and start the game.
Step 2 of 3
Bring your own copy
Point the game at your Xbox 360 copy of Battlefield 1943. It checks the files and installs them once.
Step 3 of 3
Pick a server
Press Play, or open the server browser and choose one, and you are in the fight.
Early playtest · Free
Join the playtest
We opened the servers early because we want your feedback. This is an early playtest: things will change, and some will break. Tell us what you find.