You'll earn unlocks and ribbons in every round of Battlefield 3 — from gathered experience points, your kills for each weapon, or for performing helpful actions like reviving teammates — but the unlocks are paced to compel players to play for a hundred hours. It's still enormously rewarding in the early stages to get, say, an M-COM Defender ribbon at the end of a match, or a new scope for your primary weapons, but the best unlocks don't come for an awfully long time, and it'll take an eon if you want to get the greatest goodies for all four classes.
All of your stats and progress are tracked on Battlelog, a website which acts as Battlefield 3's social network, server browser and menu. It is brilliant, bizarre and broken. I love that it tracks everything I do in the game, including weapon accuracy for individual weapons, my unlock progress, and how many kills, wins and losses I have compared to friends. The little bit of context it provides to each individual around you play makes your actions feel just a little bit more important.
But I have no idea why Battlelog also had to be the game's server browser and menu. First of all, why isn't the server browser part of Origin, EA's digital distribution service, where it could have been brought up in-game as an overlay? Right now, in order to change servers, you have to quit out of the game and head back to your web browser — which is a bit of a faff. It's also absurd that it acts as the game's primary menu. When you launch Battlefield 3 within Origin, it opens Battlelog in your server browser, and from there you launch either a multiplayer server or the campaign.
If the website is down for maintenance — as it has been frequently during these past two weeks — you need to switch Origin into Offline mode in order to launch your singleplayer game. That's an easy thing to do, but I don't even want to think about a website in that situation. Nothing was wrong with plain, uncomplicated menus. Yet both of these are small qualms when compared to the ridiculous number of stability problems. Tom Senior's game crashes to desktop every five minutes.
Rich gets disconnected from every server after a round-and-a-half of play, without fail. Tim can't connect to servers at all, most of the time. In over a week of playing and trying to play Battlefield 3 online, I've had all of these problems.
There is a slight glitchiness to the singleplayer, including character models that occasionally fail to load, weapon models that vanish, and soldiers who run through walls, but the multiplayer simply does not work at all for some of the people, some of the time. Given that this is the eleventh game in a series that started in , a guaranteed huge seller, and a tentpole game for EA, why is it acceptable that it has had a clumsy, broken launch? It's not.
For all its similarities to the previous games in the series, Battlefield 3's multiplayer is still fresh and exciting. There's no other game out there that can provide the same chaotic spectacle, or the feeling of lying in the grass with friends, watching a battle roll towards you from the horizon. Even as the singleplayer is everything I hate about games, the multiplayer is many of the things I love about them.
That means it gets a good score, but it would have been higher if the game was more polished and less rushed to hit the Christmas games rush. I'm going to play it to bits — eventually. Right now, it's broken, and I'm going to wait. Buy it when it has been patched. Our Verdict. PC Gamer Verdict. EA User Agreement: terms.
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Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action. Recent Reviews:. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you?
Sign In or Open in Steam. As a bewildered crowd watches on, Montes is shot and killed by Solomon, but Blackburn catches him off-guard while reloading, which results in a brawl between the two. Blackburn manages to knock Solomon to the ground and begins to beat him to death with a brick.
He then recovers the final nuke. The epilogue depicts Dima, suffering from the effects of radiation poisoning, writing about the efforts of both him and Blackburn to stop Solomon's plan "to set fire to the world".
As he finishes, there is a knock outside his door, prompting Dima to ready his handgun. A US Marine with an M The mode supports two players online no split screen play , spans six missions, and is a standalone section, separate from the single player game.
The missions revolve around minor operations by marines of Snake as they encounter the PLR. Missions include ground, air vehicle, as well as tight urban arid warfare, causing players to work together to complete objectives. Co-op gameplay debuted at EA's Gamescom Conference. The gameplay showcased the new thermal weapons, smarter A.
David Spinnier, lead co-op designer stated that the levels have randomized elements that change each time a co-op level is played, making it a different experience every time.
He also said that the missions will be shorter, to aid replayability. There are a total of ranks. After rank 45 Colonel , Colonel service stars are introduced, requiring , points for each subsequent Colonel rank.
In comparison to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , Battlefield 3 has 10 times the unlocks over weapons, weapon attachments, gadgets and an unlock tree for vehicles alone. In addition, unlocks are more spread through the ranks, instead of ending after rank Service Stars are added to the player's weapon skill badge, kit, vehicles, and their overall rank, and allow for further promotion.
Classes in Battlefield 3 have been tweaked in relation to their roles from Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , whilst still utilizing the same four class system. There are a total of nine multiplayer maps featured in the base game with expansion increasing the total to twenty-nine maps. The locations of the multiplayer maps, like the campaign, includes Europe and the Middle East. There are a total of five gametypes in the base game, with expansions increasing the total to thirteen. Gametypes in expansions can only be played in that expansion's respective maps.
Attack Helicopters and fighter jets are available in Rush [16] as well as in Conquest and Conquest Assault. There are currently over 50 weapons in Battlefield 3 , unlocked through player progression. Certain weapons are initially restricted by faction, though they can also be unlocked for the opposing faction with progression. Most primary weapons are restricted by class, while most secondary weapons and certain classes of primary weapons like Shotguns and Personal Defense Weapons are All Kit Weapons that can be used by all classes.
Weapon accessories can be unlocked to customize the player's weapons. Each primary weapon has three attachment slots ranging from foregrips to optics. However, unlike Bad Company 2 , they are unlocked on a weapon by weapon progression. Unlocking an attachment such as a Red Dot Sight while using one class still enables it for every other class that can use that weapon.
However, the attachment will not be available on other weapons until it is unlocked. DICE has stated that it takes over " hours" to unlock everything for a kit in Multiplayer. Battlefield 3 features over twenty different vehicles that are at the player's disposal with vehicles split into twelve different classes. Like with previous Battlefield games, their default kits are equipped with faction-specific weaponry until others are unlocked.
Battlefield 3 features many downloadable content in the form of promotional offers, short cuts, expansions, etc. Many Battlefield 3 Promotional Offers were given out following the game's release that gave players specialized dog-tags for use. They were used to promote upcoming games and movies as well being rewards for the community completing challenges set by DICE.
On March 30, , along with the 1. They unlock all: weapons, attachments, gadgets, and vehicle perks. The Battlefield 3: Physical Warfare Pack is a weapons pack available to anyone who pre-ordered Battlefield 3 Limited Edition from select retailers. Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is available for free to anyone who preordered the game. It is a multiplayer expansion based on Battlefield 2. It was released on December 6, On March 7, , Battlefield 3: Close Quarters was announced to be released in June which would then be followed up by two other map packs.
It was released on June 4, for Premium Members. On March 7, , Battlefield 3: Armored Kill was announced along with two other expansions. On May 30, , Battlefield 3: Aftermath was revealed through a leaked fact sheet pertaining to Battlefield Premium. Battlefield Premium was revealed on May 30, through a leaked fact sheet.
The novelization of the game, Battlefield 3: The Russian , written by respected author Andy McNab , takes place in the same universe as the game.
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