Battlefield 3 the game that aspires to be MW3 while still denying it saying that MW3 in fact is bad.  Even though they don't say it out loud everyone knows that's what they are saying.  So what does a game that tries to be like MW3 play like?  Well I guess you will just have to read my review.

I am going to start off with the story, the core and most important component of a game "not really".  For the singleplayer the game starts off fast and plays hard almost the entire game.  There are only about two stealth missions in the game and they only last about ten minutes before they NPCs say F' it and pull out fully automatic assault rifles.  Then you will be feed a good dose of over the top and cliché action movie scenes.  Which is ok if that's what you're looking for.  The whole game however is not action I am just stating the fact that a lot of the game will contain explosions over the top dialog and more twists then a Twizzler.  Once I finished the game and the whole story was out on the table for me to look at.  I felt as if something was missing, but it was just the fact that the OMG NUKE!!! LOOKOUT! WE MUST SAVE TEH WURLD! MY GOD! EXPLOSIONSOINS!  stories are so common they have no impact.  Something a bit more low key would be more interesting if you ask me.  Maybe we have to break into a prison and get one guy?  Just like back in COD 1?  Very simple very realistic goals.  All in all the story line wasn't half bad, but it also was not half good.  And that is half n half... the shittiest kind of coffee known to man.  So that's it.  BF3 is a cup of coffee.

 

Alright now that I have touched on the idea of a story.  It is time to talk about gameplay.  Here is something that can float between multiplayer and singleplayer with ease.  Yes this game has great guns that are fun to shoot.  There are enemies that are fun to take out and  It is also just fun to run around and do different things.  The gameplay is good!  Too bad 60% of the game is quick time events.  Which have never been a good idea and never will.  whoever thought of quick time events should die.  Also remembering to hitting spacebar is much more important than watching is what on the screen.  Considering you only have 1/8 of a second the press the button before you are dead.  You can't watch what is going on in the game you have to put all the effort in not messing up the keys.  Which really pulls me out of the game.  Making the quick time events some of the worst I have seen in a game.  Which is really saying a lot.  Then on top of that the AI are so stupid!  I can walk around them for 20 seconds before they realize that I am there.  Then they do a 180 and knife me while I can do nothing.  If there is anything this game teaches you it is to stay away from enemy AI they will knife you and you will have to play that twenty minutes of game over again.  All in all the game has good gameplay, but is plagued by some bad choices by the developers.

 

Alright time to talk about the final two things.  First the graphics.  They look amazing.  Alright now let's move onto the PC features.  The game has good pc features allowing you to change all the settings at your will.  They even have an unlocked FOV for Singleplayer and Multiplayer.  If you can't get enough tweaking on in the menus then you can open your documents and open a plain text config file.  So the settings are really open to you to change as you will.  The console is unlocked allowing you to input some commands although I am under the impressions most of them don't take effect until you reload the game.

 

With that I am at the end of my review of BF3.  Take my words into consideration and weigh the good with the bad.  I like the game and I think it was worth the $60.  I think the multiplayer is worth a lot more then the singleplayer so if you're only going in for the single player you might just want to wait until it's on sale.

 

I took some screenshots and videos for you guys.  Enjoy!