Nothing like a little good old fashioned slaughter race to get the blood pumping in the morning, eh boys?

It’s a platform versus platform race to unlock new content in Battlefield 1943‘s Coral Sea Challenge. If you head over to the game’s official site, you’ll see that DICE is keeping a running tally of kills by platform. When the total reaches 43 million for either Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, they unlock the “Coral Sea” map.

As of the time of this writing, Xbox 360 is more than halfway to the goal, clocking in at well over 23 million+ while PlayStation struggles at just a little over 13 million. Come on, PS3 owners! Get the lead out! The war will be over at this rate by the time you get it unlocked.

For the record, I plan to pick it up for Xbox 360 as well. Not calling myself a banana rider or anything, mind you – I just like to make sure I have a community to play with…