There’s a lot to be told from the influences that Battlefield 3 wears on its sleeve. As a single-player game, this military shooter is clearly indebted to its competition. If you haven’t had your fill of Modern Warfare’s (MW’s) perspective switching, globetrotting stories about terrorists (yawn) stealing nuclear weapons (stretch) and the hard-arse marines that stop them (zzz), here’s another scalding helping. Online, however, it's another story — Battlefield 3 leaves its competition in its wake.
It’s interesting to note that where Call of Duty games are all bombast and spectacle, Battlefield’s latest outing drops several telling references to Generation Kill, the HBO dramatisation of Evan Wright’s human-level Iraq war reportage. This struggle between spectacle and attempted nuance pays off a little — Battlefield 3 feels more plausible than MW and doesn’t trade as much in distasteful grit for its own sake — but it results in a single-player campaign that feels deeply compromised. Without MW’s relentless pace, the same mechanics make for a dull, repetitive experience: move down a linear path, shoot waves of enemies, rinse and repeat.
Which is a shame because in all other respects, Battlefield 3’s confidence is inspiring and it’s the superior game. Given a sufficiently beefy PC to crank up its details, this is the prettiest game we’ve ever seen, with gorgeous yet subtle art design, technically stunning graphics and sound, and some thrilling, cathartic environmental destruction. If nothing else, it looks and sounds more like modern warfare than MW.
And online, there’s nothing to touch it. With up to 64 players in-world at once, stunning levels, and tight infantry and vehicle combat, plus a range of player roles that branch outside of just shooting (playing as a medic, for instance, can foster a serious sense of community), Battlefield 3 is an exhilarating experience.
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