BattleField 3 Review
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What most Battlefield fans will admit is that every gamer who played Battlefield 3 swears on this game like when Call of Duty 4 and World at War came out. Dice and EA have always had a healthy relationship when it comes to video games, because nothing that DICE does seems to water down the story or the graphics. I had played Medal of Honor, which was my first introduction to a DICE game. I didn’t play Battlefield until WW 1 and it didn’t help me like the series, but I did see the potential and the stories unfolding prove higher than I expected. What convinced me is Battlefield: Hardline, and how DICE is devoted to story rather than over the top theatrics that COD 4 did all the way to Modern Warfare 3. What I did find invigorating about Battlefield 3 is that it manages to pull off the most subtle COD game as much of it could be mistaken for a COD game. There’s a plane mission that is one of my most favorite levels in all of First Person shooter category.
It seems to understand the logic of battle while forcing the player to use cover. On the first level, there’s a sniper that your characters have to kill, but on easy, the sniper doesn’t see you crawling. On Hard, the sniper shoots at the block of the wall, and trying to jump out of cover would be a big mistake.
When playing Battlefield 3, I can almost see why fans gather around Battlefield 3 as if it was there Modern Warfare. This game definitely played a part of most XBOX 360 players, as the multiplayer had this large open area of combat that wasn’t seen in most games. I think being a COD fan had its moments, and I did appreciate some of the less popular games, like Ghosts, which is actually a DICE inspired game than a regular COD game was.
What Battlefield 3 does is proves that you could have a game that didn’t really portray the Russians as overall bad people. What did strike me as a complex game almost proved almost exhilarating at some point. The best part is the destructive elements that take place in game versus what might happen in a cut scene. You can see every bullet hole and piece of wall shot up showing the structure of the wall. It’s pretty ingenious, and later appeared in the machine games Wolfenstein saga.
Since this is such an old game, I don’t really think me explaining the plot would be worth it. Because I think everyone other than me had played the game religiously before I even picked it up. I am amazed at how great this game looks even ten years later.
It just proves that if you put enough care and quality into a game, I am now a believer that DICE has the cojones to challenge the COD franchise. And it must have inspired the later reboot of Modern Warfare and Black Ops to focus on story rather than theatric Michael Bay techniques.
It has a regenerative health bar system, but I think that was pretty common even in games like Bungie’s Halo series. But this was pretty common in 2011.
There are a few products of its time that do show. Button prompt fights make there appearance, and you had to take your time and let the scene play out. All you have to do is wait and press the button and time your action. Some of the facial features do look a little dated, but not enough to make me lose interest or take notice. And that’s what you should do when playing or reading a book, because you want to be able to lose yourself in the journey. But sometimes, more post modernists consider eccentricities a feature not a default.
But DICE proved in 2012 and many fans right. Battlefield 3 is a subtle yet finely tuned machine that even I have to admit my anger at not trying any games beyond COD give me the joy of finding out what I had been missing. But again, I have found such joy in Battlefield 3 that even through such narrative elements mingled within the game, almost confirm the blessing of appreciating classics like DICE’s Battlefield 3. It’s not my favorite, but I do see the appeal and Battlefield has a place among the heavy hitters of FPS shooters. So, justice, defined by Thomas Aquinas, is giving what is its proper due. So, I do have to give Battlefield 3 its proper due.
Final Analysis: 8/10
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