Battlefield 3, the biggest game ever, the latest iteration of this first person shooter game and it packs a punch! Being the eleventh installment in the battlefield franchise, it is a sequel to Battlefield 2, and was just released recently, specifically on Oct 25, 2011, just in time for Christmas I guess.
Battlefield 3 marks DICE's attempt to marry the scope and scale of Battlefield 2 with the destruction and close quarters dynamics of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it mostly works. My biggest complaint is the size of the maps (at least in the PC version).
Everything is put together like DICE expected you to look at it. Characters move naturally, the lighting is beautiful, and explosions are often scary in scope and impact. It sounds like a proper war zone, with the most terrifyingly authentic audio I've heard in a game.
Unlike the Modern Warfare, in battlefield 3 there aren't that many enemies to shoot and DICE has made up for that by allowing them to fire through geometry with pinpoint accuracy. It leads to a lot of trial by death and memorization. That definitely doesn’t sound like fun.
But Battlefield 3's does occasionally do something cool. A jet sequence made the de rigeur death-from-above sequence exciting again. As the FA-18 was catapulted off the deck, I felt a hint of that twinge of panic that hits me during take-off in real life. I forgot my sidekick disappointment as I turned my head left and right in a panic trying to spot the fighter aircraft trying to kill us. The sniper sequence later on was panicky and desperate and exciting ... until I failed the mission several times trying to figure out exactly what Battlefield 3 expected me to do.
Battlefield 3 – What’s New in It?
The game is shipping with many features like: voice communicators, game statistics, and built-in text messaging in a platform called "Battlelog." Friends on the same platform can join other friends in games already in progress. Tin the multiplayer roles of this version of Battlefield are: Assault, Engineer, Recon, and Support. Additionally, BF3 has elements such as 64-player battles, fighter jets, the prone position, something that was absent in the Bad Company games. There probably won't be a Commander Mode included in Battlefield 3.
Also new is a co-op mode, this enables players to get track of their performance and be able to beat the scores of their friends, but in co-op mode, a split screen option won't be available. The original purchaser/owner of Battlefield 3 receives one Online Pass to access the online multiplayer mode, but for those who buy used copies of the game, will have to pay a fee for an Online Pass.
The class based play allows for players to select a role and succeed in it outside of the basic "kill more guys than guys kill you" model. If you can step out of an obsession with the mythical kill/death ratio, you can die again and again and still have fun. Maybe you'll be a tank commander ... or maybe you'll be the guy fixing it, making sure your team's tank ace can keep the pressure on indefinitely.
Battlefield 3's campaign isn't just a straight line, it's tactically linear, but with its beautifully crafted graphics, leaves you in awe at the sheer size and scale of every element of the game. You can feel the thrill of battle and see bullets whiz past you, feel the buildings crumble and the explosions rock the ground. Environments and locations experienced throughout this game include New York, Teheran and Paris.
I hope you enjoyed my battlefield 3 review and you will enjoy the game like I'm doing with my friends in battlefield 3 multiplayer.
