AusBattlefield have an interview up with the DICE Sweden team, asking some questions about the upcoming Battlefield 2. Here's a snippet:

AusBattlefield: One of the obvious differences between the much loved original Battlefield 1942 and its upcoming predecessor is the setting. What complications, if any, have arisen given the advances in technology and sophistification of the weapons platforms in use between WW2 and the present day?

DICE Sweden: The key challenge has been incorporating modern weapon systems (for example, heat seeking missiles and flare countermeasures) while at the same time keeping them simple to understand and use, in holding to our franchise’s arcade action values.

Check out the full interview on AusBattlefield.com.

hahaha you said leet
i think u should run DMC

rofl you get it! run... dmc... hahahaha i crack myself up hahahahahahaa

From another interview:

1. Can you expand bit more about ranks/stats. The sound of it, reminds me a lot of the honor system in Americas Army. Here are some of my concerns: When the screen with the players on the server comes up, will you be able to see the rank of each player? Will the unlocked weapons be available only in official/rank servers? Will clans be able to lease official servers and will it only be one company’s monopoly? What effect will that have for the private servers, since all the people will be playing in official/rank servers to get their rank up?

A: That was a lot of questions:

- You will be able to see the rank of everyone on both ranked and unranked servers.

- Unlocks will only be available on the ranked servers.

- As mentioned earlier, you will be able to lease official/rank servers.

- We hope that will enjoy the game enough to play it both on ranked and non-ranked servers.

The implication is that there will be separate servers that can only be rented from EA that are the 'ranked' servers. There is currently a thread going on the BF1942 dedicated server mailing list asking for more information.

I am seriously hanging out for this bigtime.

What are the chances of Ausgamers/Gamearena getting ranked server? I guess it depends on alot of things..

It would be difficult for someone once they have got leet rank and access to the special weapons, to go back and play on an unranked server and be just like every other s***kunt.

nevertheless, BF2 is going to go off and i want it now.

gamearena ranked servers would be AWESOME!