During my chat with Coutaz I couldn't help but admire the pictures behind her from the Mirror's Edge comics. DICE may be best known for Battlefield, but it has -- from time-to-time -- worked on other projects, too. With all the talks of Battlefield, are more unusual projects like Mirror's Edge on the backburner for now?
"Totally," she says definitively. "We are only focusing on Battlefield 2042. There is no time for anything else and this is what we want to do. In three years, we want to be the first-person shooter powerhouse that DICE deserves to be, and that is what we're going for."
She concludes: "I want the team to be really proud about Battlefield 2042. That is what they are chasing and they have their heart and the passion there. We want to be really, really proud of DICE. We want DICE to be the number one spot for first-person shooter games in Europe, and one of the powerhouses in the world. It's a fabulous team. We're going to make magic together."
"We want to be proud of Battlefield 2042"
When Rebecka Coutaz joined the team at DICE, she walked into a company that was hurting. The developer had just launche…
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