Editing Codename Eagle (section)

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{{Short description|1999 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title      = Codename Eagle
| image      = Codename Eagle cover.jpg
| caption    = European cover art
| developer  = [[Refraction Games]]
| publisher  = {{vgrelease|EU|[[Take-Two Interactive]]|NA|[[TalonSoft]]}}
| producer   = [[Patrick Söderlund]]
| designer   = Niklas Pehrson
| programmer = Mats Dal
| artist     = Stefan Vukanovic<br>Rikard Hultman
| composer   = Örjan Standberg
| engine     = 
| released   = {{Video game release|UK|November 1999<ref name="DICE"/>|NA|27 March 2000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talonsoft.com/c_info/press.html |title=Virtual Press Office |website=[[TalonSoft]] |access-date=6 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000510191822/http://www.talonsoft.com/c_info/press.html |archive-date=10 May 2000}}</ref>}}
| genre      = [[First-person shooter]]
| modes      = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
| platforms  = [[Microsoft Windows]]
}}

'''''Codename Eagle''''' is a [[first-person shooter]] [[video game]] developed by Refraction Games and published by [[Take-Two Interactive]] and [[TalonSoft]]. ''Codename Eagle'' was released initially in the United Kingdom in November 1999, and later in North America in March 2000.

In 2000, [[DICE (company)|DICE]] acquired Refraction Games and inherited the in-development ''[[Battlefield 1942]]''.<ref name="Pelit">{{cite web |url=https://www.pelit.fi/artikkelit/digital-illusions-taisteluni/ |title=Digital Illusions – taisteluni |trans-title=Digital Illusions – My Struggle |author=nnirvi |date=2 November 2006 |website=[[Pelit]] |access-date=3 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801084943/http://www.pelit.fi/artikkelit/digital-illusions-taisteluni/ |archive-date=1 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Codename Eagle'' is considered a spiritual predecessor to ''Battlefield 1942''.<ref name="DICE">{{cite web |url=https://www.dice.se/game/codename-eagle |title=Codename Eagle |website=[[DICE (company)|DICE]] |publisher=[[Electronic Arts]] |access-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829025450/https://www.dice.se/game/codename-eagle |archive-date=29 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://kotaku.com/the-game-that-started-the-battlefield-series-5852979 |title=The Game That Started the Battlefield Series |last=Plunkett |first=Luke |date=25 October 2011 |website=[[Kotaku]] |publisher=[[G/O Media]] |access-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420002114/https://kotaku.com/the-game-that-started-the-battlefield-series-5852979 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>