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(76)Cheats and Walkthroughs
The battle for first person shooter supremacy is heating up with the release of Battlefield 3, but how does the offering from DICE and Electronics Arts measure up?
X-Play's own Matt Keil took a look at Battlefield 3. From his Battlefield 3 review:
"Battlefield 3’s campaign exists in a strange grey area between a blockbuster action film and a ripped-from-the-headlines documentary, and ends up feeling flat as a result. The Bad Company campaigns suffered from this to a degree, but the likeable characters and snappy dialogue of B-company carried you through. Battlefield 3 has no characters to speak of, although an attempt is made to make your numerous companions stand out at times. Still, when the inevitable casualties began to mount, I felt nothing but confusion as to which mildly sarcastic guy we’d lost."
Ok, so that's the single player, but how does the multiplayer fair?
"If you’re just after the multiplayer, Battlefield 3 is a no-brainer. It has a scope and variety that simply doesn’t exist in any other multiplayer shooter. It can be tough to start out, and you’ll rage as you’re blindsided by players who know the map better than you and picked off by snipers in hiding places you didn’t even realize were there, but you’ll keep playing that “one more game” thanks to the sheer amount of things to do and the endless things to unlock for your soldier."
To see the rest of the details, and see the review score, read our Battlefield 3 review!
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Bloodthr0e
Doesn't Xbox live use Microsoft's own servers and not game company's own servers? Sounds like a problem on Microsoft's side and not EA's.
SpunkusMaximus
This page is great and all, but when I click on "review" I'd like to go to the actual review.
dz99ls
fanboys everywhere is look, it so depressing that poeple act like small children over such stupid stuff
ressurrector
COD is like being in a really good looking cardboard box on the floor of a gymnasium. BF is like the gymnasium. Nuff said...
Jsprink
I think the game is great. I am just one of those old fashioned players that like to play a lot of campaign mode. I went through the Easy, Normal, and Hard levels in two days. It just wasnt long enough. The multiplayer is great but I dont wanna shell out $65 to play online all the time. I like to get into the story. I like to feel like I am playing a charachter in a movie. Thats why I personally feel that games like Battlefield 3 and COD need longer campaign modes.
BONERJAM
I'm a long time COD fan and am pretty new to Battlefield(aside from 1943) but I picked up Battlefield 3 and have been having a blast.
Prax150
inb4 Modern Warfare 3 gets a 5 and about 25 useless stories on the week of its release. You can count the Battlefield stories on one hand on G4 this week. I shouldn't be surprised, this happens every year. Downvote me to hell and complain about how numerical values are useless, but I've had about enough of this site and its bias. I'm out.
martymar82
Oh yeah and G4 your comment system sucks! Fix it!
ElectricToast
I really, really wanted to love Battlefield 3, but there are just so many issues that this game has caused that instead of being a "watershed moment" in gaming history its becoming more of a "tool-shed moment" in gaming history.
When I first picked up my reserved copy I was stoked, but that sensation was soon exhausted when I found that the insane amount of memory, and ram used from this game literally burnt out my xbox. This was during campaign mode, because as we all know, the DICE servers can't stay up for more than 5 hours, so I thought Ill get a feel for the story (if you want to call it a story).
For me Operation Guillotine was what decapitated my xbox. Only 30seconds in and the screen glitches and goes black, forcing me to bail out to the dashboard. Upon the second attempt of running BF3, I get to the same location and the same glitch happens, though this time accompanied by a dancing red ring of death.
Overall this game has way too many screw ups and issues to even be considered a decent gaming experience.
fpsjoe
There were only a few instances yesterday where I was unable to connect to a game on xbox live and that only happened for about 2 hours or so. Today I did about 6 straight ours of multiplayer with no problem and I had about 4 or 5 friends hop in and out of the matches without issues. The only gripe I have with multiplayer is that there needs to be more servers for hardcore matches, but other than that this is the best multiplayer game I have ever played.
Papa_Neslo
Battlefield 3 has got to be one of the most visually striking multipy player experiences... that you have to experience through a gamer website video or review. Because if you are playing on the 360... you haven't played a solid 4 hour straight session without a server crashing, a EA master server failure, the loading screen freeze forcing you to crash to dashboard.
Sure, they are REALLLY sorry that they keep failing like an officer in the Imperial Navy on the Devestator... but honestly... With Modern Warfare coming out in less than two weeks... I'm one "jump into the system too early" away from force choking my Xbox 360 BF3 copy back to Gamestop and putting my money down on something that has a better chance of working out of the box... like Elder Scrolls V.
I'll give it one more day, but there is only so many times that you can read "We're sorry for the inconvenience" without thinking that Dice is run by the same guys who keeps screwing up my order at Taco Bell.
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