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Holy #@£$ .. finally a proper trailer showcasing the game instead of that constant fade to black teaser crap. Impressive.

Looks like the same old FPS format right down to the insultingly ham-fisted dialogue. Is anything different other than the graphics quality?

Give me another Sam and Max, Kings quest, Space quest or flippin Grim Fandango over this regurgitated shit. its always the same story line with these games.

Not to detract from the graphics and advancement, but its just so bland this crud they make these days.

Thief, now there was a good game. Hitman was good as well.

the character movement is fantastic.

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This reminds me of the awesome cutscenes for MWII. Or the latest Medal of Honour... Or Bad Company 2, or COD:Black Ops etc etc. When you actually get in game, same old shit, at least irt the single player game.

Here's hoping BF3 doesn't traipse down the same path.

The game looks good but I'm not buying until the multiplayer has been out for a while and it drops another $10 (Not paying $59.99 for this game).

After having a really bad experience with Bad Company 2 and their poor hit detection I do not have much faith in EA/DICE

Tap S to drag downed team member. Hold Q and E to shit pants in terror. Double tap W to throw up. Die to an IED. Respawn? Nope.

Honestly, the more games try to mimic the wars of today the more I have trouble stomaching it.

Graphically impressive. But I sure do miss the days of wide open vehicular combat maps, El Alamein-style. Enough with this tight quarters bullshit. They need to go back to BF1942 and look at what made that game a blast to play.

>> ^Darkhand:
After having a really bad experience with Bad Company 2 and their poor hit detection I do not have much faith in EA/DICE


I heard the hit detection was already much improved in BC2 Vietnam. Just what was so bad about it anyways? Didn't notice anything amiss except maybe during close quarters knifing.

Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!

This video is of the PC version.>> ^ant:

Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!

Wow what arrogance and perhaps cluelessness from the writers, soldiers are over there committing war crimes on behalf of the American plutocracy, and they have the gall to say the forces are there to "restore stability". I'm as big a fan of FPS'ers as the next guy, but if they are going to use real world locations, at least make an attempt to learn about the situation there first.

How would you feel if another country invaded you town or city for its oil, then killed tens of thousands of your women, children, students, reporters etc, but if you fought back you were branded terrorists. Walls are built to divide you from your friends and close family, stealth bombers, Black Hawks, Apaches and UAV's patrol your skies, tanks roll through your streets, yes that's stability we are bringing to you backward folks.

I just looked up the deathcount in Iraq, currently it's sitting at ~100,000 civilians. The people that buy this game and support the developers are basically saying that these 100,000 deaths, many of whom are buried in mass graves, are nothing more than a joke.

A couple from last month:
8th Feb - Father and son shot dead in Al Moushahada, north Baghdad
10th Feb - Mobile phone shop owner shot dead in central Falluja
11th/12th Feb - Student by explosive device in Yaychi, southwest of Kirkuk
15th Feb - Man shot dead in front of house in Kirkuk

>> ^Hybrid:

This video is of the PC version.>> ^ant:
Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!



Good, but let's hope it plays well. No stupid bugs, limitations, etc. Look at Crysis 2 multiplayer demo for an example.

I never noticed this. BC2 was a great multiplayer game on the PC, I think.
>> ^Darkhand:

The game looks good but I'm not buying until the multiplayer has been out for a while and it drops another $10 (Not paying $59.99 for this game).
After having a really bad experience with Bad Company 2 and their poor hit detection I do not have much faith in EA/DICE

Bad hit detection sounds like an excuse tbh. Never had a problem with BC2 myself. Besides, hit detection will never be perfect.

Trailer looks good, but I don't care for the single player campaign. Didn't play it in BC2, not gonna play it in BF3. MP is where it's at!

heeeeey guys, i'm call of duty, too! pew pew, yellow tracers, pew pew, extremely scripted linear combat, pew pew pew pewwww way-too-close explosion!!!! bad word!!!

Even though it's gimmicky, I'll keep playing my Bulletstorm and maybe Crysis 2 (you know, a real engine). These games also don't need to suck the U.S. Military Industrial Complex's Dick at every turn.

I'm so tired of military shooters and even sci-fi shooters (and that includes Crysis, but Crysis saved itself with an amazing engine and sandbox gameplay, "an Oblivion FPS") that have to have their military command and objective structure, copying each other, not too mention they all come out from basically the same three companies...

I still think the engine to beat is the Crysis or Crytek's engine. To me it would be great for everything from RPGs to puzzlers, but they don't have the toolset like Unreal does. You can look at the top FPS games across the board and all of them but Bulletstorm have a military oriented gameplay or mechanic driving it. To an old-school gamer it's incredibly frustrating to have such a bland choice of games.

They are ALL the same except for textures, voice work, animation, and what comes out the tip of the big pointy thing. Exciting... I'd rather play Crysis I over again and again, or Portal, or Half-Life 2... Sorry, but Halo goes in with the ad nauseum group.

All the fps games are boring, same old stuff with different graphics, just another COD clone, bad voice acting, too many scripted elements, blah, blah, blah

The gameplay in Battlefield 3 is dynamic, squad based and pure awesome. With the addition on multiple vehicle types from quads, to Humvee, to tanks, to helicopters, to JETS(!) it allows the multiplayer game to be fluid with varying strategies to master so that you can deal with a huge array of possible situations and threats. If you want to be really successful in the game you have to communicate with your squad and learn to play as a squad. That alone puts it leagues beyond any COD game. Don't get me wrong I appreciate COD for the frantic action it delivers, but I prefer more of a thinking game than twitch response. Which is also why I dislike Halo games, plus having to hear a Mom yelling for her kid to go to bed or finish his homework.

This game is taking the whole multiplayer aspects of FPS games to a whole new level with massive maps, 64 player games and a focus on team mechanics. No lone gunner running off and getting 500+ kills like in other games.

@ghark - It says it takes place in 2014, so unless you've got a Tardis in your house I think your diatribe is either a little off target, an attempt at trolling, or you were pandering to the liberal sift community. Either way you get a "wag of the finger".

I'm buying this IMMEDIATELY !!!! Once for each PC here also, so come on over and we'll squad up.

I understand Karkand will be coming out with it. Hopefully "BACK TO KARKAND" doesn't mean, "BACK TO THE TINY MIDDLE AREA IN THE MAP FORMALLY KNOWN AS KARKAND"

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>> ^BoneRemake:

Give me another Sam and Max, Kings quest, Space quest or flippin Grim Fandango over this regurgitated shit. its always the same story line with these games.
Not to detract from the graphics and advancement, but its just so bland this crud they make these days.
Thief, now there was a good game. Hitman was good as well.


Thief was one of the best games ever, up till the point the zombies came in. After that it turned into pretty much every other hack'n'slash out there

Hitman was the same thing, the end was stupid.

But games like the battlefield series ain't really about the singleplayer experience, it's the team deathmatch und stuff action which is honed better and better over time. Of course for players who don't see that as a thing they like, it's pointless to see money put into these kinds of games, I for sure would like to see my share of both types, but meh, for some reason the adventure type games and such aren't popular enough on a wide scale...ah well. R.I.P Looking Glass Studios, the maker of many of my most favourite games of all time.

The graphics are cool for sure. But, what bothers me about these "modern" games is that they are war porn. Should we be glorifying a f%$ing illegal war as entertainment, as something that is fun?

No thanks, I'll be much happier cleaning out my immense Minecraft caverns of blocks.

>> ^ant:

Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!


The PC will be the main platform for BF3, rejoice.

>> ^sillma:

>> ^ant:
Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!

The PC will be the main platform for BF3, rejoice.


Good, but let's hope it will be good. I will believe it when I see it. Hopefully, a demo/beta.

>> ^ant:

>> ^sillma:
>> ^ant:
Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!

The PC will be the main platform for BF3, rejoice.

Good, but let's hope it will be good. I will believe it when I see it. Hopefully, a demo/beta.


Aye, I've had my fair share of Dice shitting on me in form of stupid game physics, gun accuracy based on pure lottery, shittier patching code than my sister's 2 year old would code...but for the fps games I've played, Dice's gameplay has been gold. I do have my suspicions of the usual shit happening all over again though, but I suspect I'll be still glued to the computer, cursing the infuriating bugs that Dice always manages to conjure up...

>> ^sillma:

>> ^ant:
>> ^sillma:
>> ^ant:
Nice, but I hope it doesn't suck in PC port. Need a beta/demo!

The PC will be the main platform for BF3, rejoice.

Good, but let's hope it will be good. I will believe it when I see it. Hopefully, a demo/beta.

Aye, I've had my fair share of Dice shitting on me in form of stupid game physics, gun accuracy based on pure lottery, shittier patching code than my sister's 2 year old would code...but for the fps games I've played, Dice's gameplay has been gold. I do have my suspicions of the usual shit happening all over again though, but I suspect I'll be still glued to the computer, cursing the infuriating bugs that Dice always manages to conjure up...


It's not just DICE. A lot of companies! Remember, this is MARKETING. Marketing is supposed to look good and attractive for you to buy.

I believe this marketing. This is not revolutionary compared to the games already out, it looks accurate I am sure to the final product.

I wont even play the single player game. I havent on the other ones either.

>> ^sillma:

>> ^BoneRemake:
Give me another Sam and Max, Kings quest, Space quest or flippin Grim Fandango over this regurgitated shit. its always the same story line with these games.
Not to detract from the graphics and advancement, but its just so bland this crud they make these days.
Thief, now there was a good game. Hitman was good as well.

Thief was one of the best games ever, up till the point the zombies came in. After that it turned into pretty much every other hack'n'slash out there
Hitman was the same thing, the end was stupid.
But games like the battlefield series ain't really about the singleplayer experience, it's the team deathmatch und stuff action which is honed better and better over time. Of course for players who don't see that as a thing they like, it's pointless to see money put into these kinds of games, I for sure would like to see my share of both types, but meh, for some reason the adventure type games and such aren't popular enough on a wide scale...ah well. R.I.P Looking Glass Studios, the maker of many of my most favourite games of all time.


System Shock 2 was rad.

>> ^mentality:

>> ^Darkhand:
After having a really bad experience with Bad Company 2 and their poor hit detection I do not have much faith in EA/DICE

I heard the hit detection was already much improved in BC2 Vietnam. Just what was so bad about it anyways? Didn't notice anything amiss except maybe during close quarters knifing.


Myself and my friends did. It's not constant but I would experiencing hit box errors. Where I know I'd have my reticle on someone and they would not get hurt. It's very frustrating.

Plus there were a few exploits an balance issues that never got patched.

I'm not saying I'll never buy battlefield 3. But I will wait a while to make sure they are doing their job with support and balance.

Stupid. What the fuck is this, I didn't give a shit about it when it was named Call of Duty. Nice job wasting time with something totally irrelevant to what made the first 3 Battlefield games great.

>> ^My_design:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ghark" title="member since September 30th, 2009" class="profilelink">ghark - It says it takes place in 2014


Well that's the most disingenuous or naïve comment you could make.

>> ^ghark:

Wow what arrogance and perhaps cluelessness from the writers, soldiers are over there committing war crimes on behalf of the American plutocracy, and they have the gall to say the forces are there to "restore stability". I'm as big a fan of FPS'ers as the next guy, but if they are going to use real world locations, at least make an attempt to learn about the situation there first.
How would you feel if another country invaded you town or city for its oil, then killed tens of thousands of your women, children, students, reporters etc, but if you fought back you were branded terrorists. Walls are built to divide you from your friends and close family, stealth bombers, Black Hawks, Apaches and UAV's patrol your skies, tanks roll through your streets, yes that's stability we are bringing to you backward folks.
I just looked up the deathcount in Iraq, currently it's sitting at ~100,000 civilians. The people that buy this game and support the developers are basically saying that these 100,000 deaths, many of whom are buried in mass graves, are nothing more than a joke.
A couple from last month:
8th Feb - Father and son shot dead in Al Moushahada, north Baghdad
10th Feb - Mobile phone shop owner shot dead in central Falluja
11th/12th Feb - Student by explosive device in Yaychi, southwest of Kirkuk
15th Feb - Man shot dead in front of house in Kirkuk


This is because they've sold their souls to the US Military Propoganda Wing (sorry Media Relations) in exchange for their help making the game more 'authentic'. See a video explaining this type of relationship here, as it pertains to Hollywood.

Of course, the trade off for their expert assistance is that they get to veto anything in script that they don't approve of. Any mention of atrocities and civilian deaths at the hands of the US would be the first thing on the chopping block. Look at the latest Medal of Honour for example: reference to the opposing force being named Taliban called for removal. EA buckled to the demand, preserving their ongoing cooperation.

Which isn't to say that you can't enjoy these games for what they are. But do recognise the implicit recruiting advertisments and general support for the war industry.

It is propaganda, just like a lot of Hollywood war films. And the government loves it - censors out what they don't approve of in exchange for renting out military vehicles to Hollywood for next to nothing.

The funny thing is, I hated that the army made a video game recruitment tool. But, to be honest at least it was difficult as $&&% directly in contrast to these big budget titles that make it "immersive" (immersive as in loud noises and yelling) and easy.


>> ^BoneyD:

>> ^ghark:
Wow what arrogance and perhaps cluelessness from the writers, soldiers are over there committing war crimes on behalf of the American plutocracy, and they have the gall to say the forces are there to "restore stability". I'm as big a fan of FPS'ers as the next guy, but if they are going to use real world locations, at least make an attempt to learn about the situation there first.
How would you feel if another country invaded you town or city for its oil, then killed tens of thousands of your women, children, students, reporters etc, but if you fought back you were branded terrorists. Walls are built to divide you from your friends and close family, stealth bombers, Black Hawks, Apaches and UAV's patrol your skies, tanks roll through your streets, yes that's stability we are bringing to you backward folks.
I just looked up the deathcount in Iraq, currently it's sitting at ~100,000 civilians. The people that buy this game and support the developers are basically saying that these 100,000 deaths, many of whom are buried in mass graves, are nothing more than a joke.
A couple from last month:
8th Feb - Father and son shot dead in Al Moushahada, north Baghdad
10th Feb - Mobile phone shop owner shot dead in central Falluja
11th/12th Feb - Student by explosive device in Yaychi, southwest of Kirkuk
15th Feb - Man shot dead in front of house in Kirkuk

This is because they've sold their souls to the US Military Propoganda Wing (sorry Media Relations) in exchange for their help making the game more 'authentic'. See a video explaining this type of relationship here, as it pertains to Hollywood.
Of course, the trade off for their expert assistance is that they get to veto anything in script that they don't approve of. Any mention of atrocities and civilian deaths at the hands of the US would be the first thing on the chopping block. Look at the latest Medal of Honour for example: reference to the opposing force being named Taliban called for removal. EA buckled to the demand, preserving their ongoing cooperation.
Which isn't to say that you can't enjoy these games for what they are. But do recognise the implicit recruiting advertisments and general support for the war industry.

>> ^ghark:

Wow what arrogance and perhaps cluelessness from the writers, soldiers are over there committing war crimes on behalf of the American plutocracy, and they have the gall to say the forces are there to "restore stability". I'm as big a fan of FPS'ers as the next guy, but if they are going to use real world locations, at least make an attempt to learn about the situation there first.
How would you feel if another country invaded you town or city for its oil, then killed tens of thousands of your women, children, students, reporters etc, but if you fought back you were branded terrorists. Walls are built to divide you from your friends and close family, stealth bombers, Black Hawks, Apaches and UAV's patrol your skies, tanks roll through your streets, yes that's stability we are bringing to you backward folks.
I just looked up the deathcount in Iraq, currently it's sitting at ~100,000 civilians. The people that buy this game and support the developers are basically saying that these 100,000 deaths, many of whom are buried in mass graves, are nothing more than a joke.
A couple from last month:
8th Feb - Father and son shot dead in Al Moushahada, north Baghdad
10th Feb - Mobile phone shop owner shot dead in central Falluja
11th/12th Feb - Student by explosive device in Yaychi, southwest of Kirkuk
15th Feb - Man shot dead in front of house in Kirkuk


Stop being so reasonable!

BFBC2:
laggy and inconsistent.
no console
hardcoded negative mouse acceleration

BF3 will be more of the same. 64 players + "destruction 3.0" just means more lag. Companies dont even test these console ports with a mouse before releasing them on PC (see BC2, MOH, FarCry 2, Bioshock 1 and 2, Deadspace 1, JustCause 2, etc). The controls feel horrible in every new pc fps game.

BF3 doesnt even look that great compared to Crysis + mod.

Gaming on the PC is going downhill. Even Steam is releasing an OnLive ripoff. Crytek was my last hope but I tried the Crysis 2 mp demo and when I got to the title screen it said "Push Start Button"...

Everything now is about looks above gameplay and feel.

Boring Boring Boring

Reminds me of

http://videosift.com/video/Duty-Calls-Bulletstorm-s-awesome-parody-of-Call-of-Duty

Nice lighting engine.

Oh, and I agree with the mass of people saying the modern FPS is bland and has been way overdone (and often are being too obvious about also being military recruitment tools), but just thank your lucky stars they finally stopped making them all be set in WW2.

Haters! I'll kill you all in Karkand!

If it's releasing in the fall that could mean a demo as early as July. To say I'm excited about this would be putting it mildly.

>> ^NetRunner:

Nice lighting engine.
Oh, and I agree with the mass of people saying the modern FPS is bland and has been way overdone (and often are being too obvious about also being military recruitment tools), but just thank your lucky stars they finally stopped making them all be set in WW2.


I prefer WW2 shooters. Drama, pathos, French fields and period weapons FTW. Plus the knowledge you're fighting against Hitler makes things a little less "morally grey".

I know I'm just echoing what everyone else has said... but I'm sick to death of these shitty copycat-of-copycat war games. Why does anyone feel the need to buy the same game over and over again? And this looks nothing like what a Battlefield game should.

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