Electronic Arts has recently announced that it is working on a booster pack for Battlefield 2142 called Northern Strike . The expansion is being developed by EA's Digital Illusions (DICE) studio in Stockholm, Sweden and is scheduled for release in March 2007. Check out the booster pack's official website here.

Northern Strike drops soldiers into a futuristic conflict for control of Earth's last bits of inhabitable land following a second 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.

The booster pack will include three new maps: the WWII battle scene at the Bridge at Remagen, an Alpine Titan docking harbour in Port Bavaria, and a claustrophobic showdown in the Liberation of Leipzig. New vehicles included are the EU's heavily armed IFV Goliath and the PAC's hovering IFV Hachimoto. Plus players will find new unlocks, new badges and ribbons, and new gameplay scenarios.

"Our number one goal with Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike was to give fans more of the close-quarters combat, increased persistence and new toys they've been asking for," said Kristoffer Bergqvist, the booster pack's producer. "We've also added gameplay enhancements including two brand new vehicle types in an asymmetrical set-up. Furthermore, we're introducing the Titan game mode into an urban setting and will debut the intensified Conquest Assault Lines game mode."