Battlefield 3 review

Battlefield 3, the major killer Electronic Arts to the throne of Call of Duty to take over with great fanfare came over us in recent months. The hype was bigger and bigger and so are the expectations for this title. Now the game is intense shooter we've played and we'll tell you now, or Battlefield 3 towering expectations fulfilled. But since this is a title that you can not just play it and then just write the review we do it different this time. Lennard has the single player and co overhauls and Ronald all his time in multiplayer stopped. In this review we present you the Battlefield 3!

Lennard:
The single Battlefield 3 starts pretty spectacular. You are on the streets of New York and is approaching a subway on the track under the road you walk on. You never hesitate to jump over the wall and lands on the rushing underground. This tube is filled with all kinds of terrorists are planning something and that the view of New York may change forever. Fortunately you're there to put a stop to stabbing. But before you do something you can fly back in time and see yourself at a table.

You are Blackburn, a U.S. Army sergeant who knows how it came to be. You try to convince two interrogators that New York is in danger, but they do not really take seriously. Then the real adventure. While you must pass the examination, go back in time and replay your missions Blackburn and others have suffered in the recent past. This way you will gradually find out how the current crisis came about. So far our description of the story that's fun for the various missions designed to tie together. Nowhere is the story really a very impressive and that is unfortunate.

The principle of flashbacks to previous missions is not particularly innovative because Call of Duty: Black Ops did exactly the same, only that game is already one year out. For the story you do not then the game play. For missions perhaps, because they are more interesting. One moment you walk through the streets of a major city in the Middle East, the next moment you step into a jet to cool air to do battle again and moments later you roaring with a tank through the enemy lines.

It is clear that the game is very diverse in terms of emissions and that is equal to the strongest point of the single player. The story does not entirely dismiss it as being of secondary importance ... it is indeed fun to play with the various characters who struggle to live is called Battlefield 3. The downside is that the game in less than six hours to play. This is very short and that also means that you actually give a **** about the fate of Blackburn in the first instance is depicted as the great cause of all problems.

The plot changes so quickly that you view more than looking forward to the new missions the chatter in the cut scenes and that is unfortunate. Result, or again that if you play the missions you've seen one and a half hours to at another time to pick up again. This indicates that the game not sucking up, but that really should, and it is equal to the largest loss of the single player. Strangely enough, not the gameplay (what nice moments after), but the audiovisual aspect is very strong in the game. Graphically the game is very beautiful, but we're ok here with mixed feelings.

The audio is really the highest shelf. If you have a bit of a good surround set and you throw open the volume that sounds so absurdly good that all other previous shooters with a similar setting immediately forget. Simply fantastic and the same can be said about the brilliant good exposure. Thus a number of times when you sit to enjoy the pure DICE exposure to various levels and has set up the gray visual atmosphere of the cut-scenes is fantastic. Yet we came here and there at places that clearly have received less attention in terms of textures.

Much worse is that the single player has to do with frame drops and that is obviously very important at crucial moments. In short, boring and so that's just one of several criticisms. Thus the AI ​​rather stupid. Enemies in fact just wait until they are fired. Fortunately, you usually have a team with you to help, but ultimately it's really on you to. It is remarkable to see that DICE has repeatedly called the most realistic experience to put down, while opponents then shoot all of you and your team of soldiers into secondary importance ... to the realism so far.

The single is fun for a time, but you're really done with it. We think that DICE had therefore better off to leave, because it does not contribute much to the game. The same can be said about the co. This works fine. Cooperation is obviously of great importance in the various missions, many aspects of the game is over. Think of vehicles, day and night, escorting, protecting, and more attacks. Too bad there is no co-op in the story and noticeable that quite a few weird glitches in it. Enemies who suddenly disappear and then spawn behind you and you shoot for example.

The co-op is a nice addition to the single player, but right now we have completed both modes, the conclusion is really simple. It's nice for once, but that's really all it said. It feels more like a 'you must' EA, than here with heart and soul has worked. Ultimately it is the multiplayer is the most prominent part of the game you and Ronald go from here there more about that whatsoever. But still positive to quit, despite the various flaws of the single player and co, we have entertained. Only the expectations were higher and are simply not met. Sin.

Ronald:
The heart and soul of DICE is to detect it in the multiplayer of Battlefield 3. Like many other gamers I've beaten the single player and co have to release it to go into the multiplayer. This component will ensure that many gamers just not thinking of the Modern Warfare franchise, but a renewed design of the multiplayer does just that very much reminiscent of the great competitive series. The maps in Battlefield 3 are in fact decreased in totality, which is especially noticeable in Rush mode. On some maps, the number of vehicles is very limited, while just more exciting when you have a fight that takes place in vehicles and also a little war that is fought on foot.

But have no fear the man, because there are plenty of big maps which we call up the necessary vehicles to get started. In Battlefield 3 you can now control a fighter that if he can be kept well under control, a certain dominance over the battlefield radiates. You shoot at an empty warehouse fighter obviously has no sense and so should you wait until you're higher level and more powerful defensive weapons at your disposal. But even the helicopters seem immune to a magazine emptied, while Bad Company 2 which had a much stronger effect you and your team to protect against air attacks. The tanks are a little stronger, so you have more chance at the last minute still to get out before the last missile impact your tank in ruins behind.

The fighting in Battlefield 3, for the most part fought on the floor with legs the old-fashioned car. Just like in Bad Company 2 is possible to choose from four different classes, but the Medic's are history. For medical assistance, you are knocking at the Assault class and according to DICE, a good choice, because this class is on the frontline and others can quickly provide support. In place of the Medic's support came largely does the same class as the old familiar Medic class, but without medkits and defribillators. There are also some small shops interchangeably mixed up and all classes have over Bad Company 2 some new weapons and gadgets at their disposal.

Everything you need to get hold of the necessary hours to wear off in multiplayer. At rank 45 by now you have everything unlocked, if you always continue to play a class and that's really not the purpose. Because you have to adjust to your team, your squad, your opponents and the maps you play, but DICE is the transfer of medical aid to the Assault class ensured that most plays with this class. In addition, the Engineer class as the most popular maps and what do you have narrowed much less old school against snipers. Good news for the anti-camper would say, but because you are in Battlefield 3 also sprawled on the ground can lie, the number of campers increased.

Besides the aforementioned Rush mode, the familiar Battlefield Conquest Mode playable again. Here you have a number of positions as long as possible to win, while in Rush you keep two M-COM stations shall destroy or too berschermen before what will move the folder to the same thing to repeat. Both are also playable in the Squad variants and then you have basically the same modes as in Bad Company 2. But DICE had to introduce a new mode for a little innovation, but they have opted for the old Team Deathmatch. The choice for Team Deathmatch is logical, because with this they try Modern Warfare gamers needs. But it does affect the atmosphere of the Battlefield franchise is trying to exude.

To all those little things you may notice that Battlefield 3 really struggle trying to deal with the Modern Warfare franchise, but also outside the game plays a dirty little war between the two fighting cocks. Activision Blizzard unveiled Call of Duty: Elite a playground for the diehard gamer CoD, which they in the most detail imaginable to admire their statistics. DICE has something similar, namely Battlelog. Here you can watch your progress, and you see what is about to unlock weapons, your K / D Ratio admire (or despise) the total number of kills per weapon and see all your vehicles statistics. It is less extensive than Call of Duty: Elite, but DICE has done her best. The ease with which you could look at statistics in Bad Company 2, however, belongs to the past and the selection of accessories is this harder than it actually is.

Now the game not so long ago released, so it's peak times on the servers for Battlefield 3, but it keeps pretty setting. On some maps, like the diving was more than on other maps, but generally everything goes relatively smoothly. This unfortunately can not be said of the communication through headsets, which often works as a whole and not when it works, you hear many gamers just a lot of crackling. "Fortunately," PlayStation 3 gamers have a sort of terror talk, because the number of Battlefield 3 gamers who play with a headset is shameful low. The Battlefield franchise has always focused on teamwork, but it seems Battlefield 3 to a record low to be dropped. Most games with the Assault class, nobody talks to each other and some remain comfortably on the floor, hoping that you K / D Ratio what goes up.

But the times when you've collected a squad that can work well, and whose members can communicate with each other make sure you end up in a flow that will make you invincible and eight refused to your PlayStation 3 off. But overall it seems the multiplayer of Battlefield 3 a little too much influenced by the Modern Warfare franchise. This perhaps makes more copies, but it also brings a lot of annoyances up to seasoned gamers Battlefield 3. A real Medic class had avoided that too many people with a class to work and some maps are not worthy Battlefield stamp. The new Team Deathmatch mode has no place in Battlefield 3. The multiplayer of Battlefield 3 now shows its strength on some maps, but that all maps should have been.

Battlefield 3 is a game which we can say that a lot of things well. But bad enough doing a lot of things wrong, because they are generally quite small points to disturb you. The single may not have been very interesting in terms of story, the action is very fat and the same can be said about the multiplayer. Along with another brilliant audio and gameplay make this game very fine in some respects to a true gem. The lofty expectations of what makes the game in multiplayer after criticisms certainly true, but that's just not the case back to the single player. Nevertheless Battlefield 3 certainly a title you can get home in blindly.

Pros

- Audio is fantastic.
- Plays nice.
- Variation in single player.
- Multiplayer.
- A good squad is brilliant multiplayer.
- Now fighter jets! Cons

- AI in single player.
- Singleplayer short and not interesting.
- Visual volatile.
- Many multiplayer maps on the small side.
- Team Deathmatch.
- Are Camping