Electronic Arts has released Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike, the latest booster pack for its popular team-based combat game doe the PC. The booster pack is now available for the PC and ready for download via EA Link at www.ea.com/ealink for $9.99. Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike has been rated T for Teen by the ESRB and was developed at the EA Digital Illusions (DICE) studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

The latest booster pack for Battlefield 2142 emphasizes close-quarters combat, dropping gamers deep into a desperate conflict for control of Earth's last scraps of inhabitable land following the onset of a cataclysmic new ice age. The Pan-Asian Coalition (PAC) has secretly moved into mainland Europe, using abandoned urban areas to establish new strongholds in a last-ditch push for superiority. The European Union must quickly mobilize north to dislodge PAC forces from a series of urban strongholds and regain the upper hand.

Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike features the new Conquest Assault game mode, and three new maps, including the infamous WWII battle scene at the Bridge at Remagen, an Alpine Titan docking harbor in Port Bavaria and a claustrophobic showdown in the Liberation of Leipzig. The booster pack also features new vehicles including the EU's heavily armed IFV Goliath and the PAC's hovering light IFV Hachimoto in addition to new persistence, new gameplay and more.