Stuff that has been bugging me.

[TINSTAAFL]

Cerbère, France On the French/Spanish border.

[Lunien]

eh, lets just settle on sir-beer then (beer as in the "severe" sound)...

Forget it, CAREBEAR!! DICE needs to rename it now, Carebear Landing!

And yeah venny :P apart from remagen and tunis i'm not sure of, I think minsk, belgrade, liepzig, verdun, gibraltar, berlin, cerebere and the suez are all places in the world..well I think they all are places in the world..given how the setting is the world in 2142 lol

[Yraen]

ohhh!!! there's really such a place as on earth!!! wow! i thought they jus made it up!

All of the maps in 2142 are based off of real world locations

Cerbère (in Catalan: Cervera de la Marenda) is a French commune in the département of Pyrénées-Orientales in the région of Languedoc-Roussillon. In 1999, it had 1487 inhabitants called Cerbériens.
The village is best known for hosting the border station on the French side of the train line between Perpignan and Barcelona. Since France and Spain use different rail gauges, the border stations of Cerbère and Portbou are quite busy with various transfer or gauge adjustment operations.

Geography

Last commune on the Côte Vermeille (vermilion coast) before Spain, Cerbère is neighboured by the communes of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Portbou (Spain).

Name

The dervation of the name has certainly nothing to do with the dog Cerberus, (Cerbère in French), guardian of Hell in Greek mythology, even if Cape Cerbère could appear as a guard post at the entry to Spain. In any case, numerous other localities have the same name, especially in Catalonia, and their geographic position would not suggest such a derivation. An alternative suggestion is a place frequented by stags (French: cerfs), an equally unlikely hypothesis. Given the antiquity of the name, it must be assumed to be a pre-Latin name, and to come from the pre-Indo-European root kar or ker (rock) followed by the Ibero-Basque root -erri (place). The name of Cerbère described, then, a rocky place, which perfectly describes the site, as well as other localities with similar names.

[TINSTAAFL]

Taking the Remagen Brige

[Yraen]

Tunis is the capital city of Tunisia and is located near the Gulf of Tunis

[AllFoamNoBeer]

*Edit - you guys are too fast
No, Remagen is real, though it wasn't a bridge, it was a small town near the Rhine River. The Bridge is called Ludendoff. Hence the map is called Bridge at Remagen, not Remagen Bridge.


Tunis is actually the capital of Tunisia.

[Wizrdwarts]

Every map is based on an IRL place.

Sidi Power Plant doesn't exist yet, but there's many places called Sidi
Shooha Tooba (all right, all right, Shuhia Tabia :p) is in northern Egypt.

[Cann0n-Fodder]

Camp G Is a real place too, I think its in Germany.

[Wizrdwarts]

Camp G Is a real place too, I think its in Germany.

Camp G is supposed to be a refugee camp in Africa somewhere, not in actual Gibraltar.

[vanilla]

Camp G Is a real place too, I think its in Germany.

No, it isn't. Berlin, Remagen, Leipzig and Bavaria are in Germany.

[FPS[SONIC]]

I remember reading an interview somewhere where DICE execs were discussing design decisions regarding place names. It seems that they specifically changed a few locations because of "political sensibilities" at the time of development. Some selected locations were slightly changed so to not offend or otherwise cause tensions to rise.

Remember when BF2 came out and the Chinese were furious about being one of the opponents? I know that there are political issues surrounding North and South Korea being used in war gaming as well as key areas in the Middle East.

[RottnJP]

i think there was cartoon quite long back called care bears too...

Sigh... Yes, quite long back. Now I feel old.

I call it Carebear cuz I know how to pronounce it, and I am old enough to remember those annoying pastel cartoon bears, that were always frickin' happy and helpful, and bounced around singing, "La LA la la la LA, LA la la la LAAAAA!"
:ar15:

[Shazanelli]

I thought it was more like sir-bur landing....

Anyway, some of my clan mates call Shuhia Taiba, Shania Twain...lol. Much easier on the tongue. :laugh:

[Arid]

I always thought it was pronounced Cer-bee-air

[Cann0n-Fodder]

I pronounce it "Sir-beer"