EA’s Battlefield 3 is one of the big boys for the holiday selling season this year and, as a high profile military shooter, it’s the game that many believe will finally give the Call of Duty behemoth a run for it’s money.
So far, B3 looks like it’s a winner in the visual department (at the very least) but the real meat and potatoes is the quality of the campaign and the multiplayer. Of course, neither of those elements were executed all that well in Medal of Honor, the last game to be heralded as the “Call of Duty-killer”.
If you’d like to give Battlefield an early spin and see if it just might live up to its billing, you can snag the multiplayer Beta right now on Xbox LIVE, the PSN and the PC. Of course, while you wait for that beefy download to complete, why not click through for some of the latest screens from the game? For a game as pretty as Battlefield 3, you know you want to…
Haven't played any of the battlefield games, but did play the last few CoD's so I'm curious to see how it plays since the two are constantly compared to one another. My son was downloading this to my PS3 this morning, so I will get a chance to poke at it tonight. 🙂
Haven't played any of the battlefield games, but did play the last few CoD's so I'm curious to see how it plays since the two are constantly compared to one another. My son was downloading this to my PS3 this morning, so I will get a chance to poke at it tonight. 🙂
The Battlefield games have been quality products since the very first days of Battlefield 1942 when they polished the art of the multiplayer FPS to a beautiful shine. I've loved the Battlefield series ever since and, though not many of them have had single-player campaigns, I'm expecting Battlefield 3 to blow the competition out of the water.
Call of Duty has long since past its prime, to me: beyond the fact that the soul of the game was lost long ago (back when World at War was released), and ignoring the fact that Activision solidified its title as "publisher we love to hate" with the whole Infinity Ward fiasco, each iteration of Call of Duty seems identical to the last with only very minute, purely aesthetic changes. Sure, the game has big setpieces but what else does it have going for it?
Battlefield 3, on the other hand, looks like it's going to flip the military shooter subgenré on its head. Yes, there are big setpieces but there's also superior technology in the form of destructible environments, the vastly superior audio samples that are standards of Battlefield games and the amazing visual fidelity that is evident from the pictures above and the trailers that have been showcased.
Add to all this that a large percentage of the Call of Duty fanbase is starting to grow tired of the samey gameplay that Call of Duty has been offering these last few iterations and I think Battlefield 3 stands the best chance of dethroning the would-be king.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
The Battlefield games have been quality products since the very first days of Battlefield 1942 when they polished the art of the multiplayer FPS to a beautiful shine. I've loved the Battlefield series ever since and, though not many of them have had single-player campaigns, I'm expecting Battlefield 3 to blow the competition out of the water.
Call of Duty has long since past its prime, to me: beyond the fact that the soul of the game was lost long ago (back when World at War was released), and ignoring the fact that Activision solidified its title as "publisher we love to hate" with the whole Infinity Ward fiasco, each iteration of Call of Duty seems identical to the last with only very minute, purely aesthetic changes. Sure, the game has big setpieces but what else does it have going for it?
Battlefield 3, on the other hand, looks like it's going to flip the military shooter subgenré on its head. Yes, there are big setpieces but there's also superior technology in the form of destructible environments, the vastly superior audio samples that are standards of Battlefield games and the amazing visual fidelity that is evident from the pictures above and the trailers that have been showcased.
Add to all this that a large percentage of the Call of Duty fanbase is starting to grow tired of the samey gameplay that Call of Duty has been offering these last few iterations and I think Battlefield 3 stands the best chance of dethroning the would-be king.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see!