Battlefield 3 Blog believes it might just have the first, totally unofficial image of the game, which doesn't even have a release date yet. The image (below) reportedly comes from a Swedish fellow who calls himself "Doe," who snapped a quick one at the home of a DICE developer, obviously off a TV or a monitor.
I hope he's crouching. To be crystal clear: this is in no way an official screenshot of the game and the source here is suspect to boot. However, the shot does look legit. The soldiers, the atmosphere, and the guns look very Battlefield-esque, and as the BF3 Blog notes, the HUD elements take specific cues from various BF games, most notably Battlefield 2.
Unfortunately, we won't know if this image is real or not until DICE actually tosses out the first screen of the game, which might take a while. Feel free to take this shot with a grain of salt, or salivate with the rest of us. Whatever makes you happy!
" " UPDATE: No, this is not a leaked screenshot of Battlefield 3. It's a fake created from this Battlefield: Bad Company 2 wallpaper. Oh, Internet." No, you should do some actual research instead of just copy and pasting shit like a Kotaku hack. Theres no excuse for this sloppy rubbish. "
True...I knew it was a Brad Nicholson joint just by the headline before I even read the story...
" This had bullshit written all over it. Simply put, no one outside of maybe Naughty Dog is capable of that kind of lighting and breadth of animation (all three of the soldiers appear to have different running animations). The lighting is the real giveaway, especially considering the developer's track record. Plus you think about the probable release of BF3 being a year off, there's no way they'd be that far ahead by now. This reminds me of Madden target renders being called gameplay stills. "
What are you smoking? That wallpaper is just a Bad Company 2 screenshot. "
Cinematic, not gameplay. "
Do you mean an FMV? Because it's definitely in-engine. Just looks like a gameplay shot taken with a free-roaming camera. If run on a PC at ultra settings, I almost guarantee it looks that good. Your assertion that only Naughty Dog could make game that looks like that is, frankly, a little silly. And it's not three separate running animations, it's two characters doing the same running animation and one doing a side-stepping animation.
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
The fact you can't see any difference is troubling. "
Please tell me what the difference is? One could actually be considered news, because rumors are news despite what you think. While the other is just pointless spam. Both people are posting things as news articles, one is allowed to get away with spam, and the other gets yelled at for literally anything he posts. "
I know you want Giantbomb to be a no fun zone, but if you can't really tell the difference between a funny little aside to mark an upcoming release date and yet another unsourced, rushed, poorly written and false post that anyone who wasn't interested in simply getting as many posts out there as possible would notice, then I don't know what to say.
" This had bullshit written all over it. Simply put, no one outside of maybe Naughty Dog is capable of that kind of lighting and breadth of animation (all three of the soldiers appear to have different running animations). The lighting is the real giveaway, especially considering the developer's track record. Plus you think about the probable release of BF3 being a year off, there's no way they'd be that far ahead by now. This reminds me of Madden target renders being called gameplay stills. "
What are you smoking? That wallpaper is just a Bad Company 2 screenshot. "
" This had bullshit written all over it. Simply put, no one outside of maybe Naughty Dog is capable of that kind of lighting and breadth of animation (all three of the soldiers appear to have different running animations). The lighting is the real giveaway, especially considering the developer's track record. Plus you think about the probable release of BF3 being a year off, there's no way they'd be that far ahead by now. This reminds me of Madden target renders being called gameplay stills. "
What are you smoking? That wallpaper is just a Bad Company 2 screenshot.
This had bullshit written all over it. Simply put, no one outside of maybe Naughty Dog is capable of that kind of lighting and breadth of animation (all three of the soldiers appear to have different running animations). The lighting is the real giveaway, especially considering the developer's track record. Plus you think about the probable release of BF3 being a year off, there's no way they'd be that far ahead by now.
This reminds me of Madden target renders being called gameplay stills.
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
The fact you can't see any difference is troubling. "
Please tell me what the difference is? One could actually be considered news, because rumors are news despite what you think. While the other is just pointless spam. Both people are posting things as news articles, one is allowed to get away with spam, and the other gets yelled at for literally anything he posts. "
How thick are you man. One is obviously a joke, one is a picture Brad thought could be a Battlefield 3 screenshot, potentially news. You think just because they're on the same site, they're the same thing...or something? Oh man that's brutally bad logic...
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
The fact you can't see any difference is troubling. "
Please tell me what the difference is? One could actually be considered news, because rumors are news despite what you think. While the other is just pointless spam. Both people are posting things as news articles, one is allowed to get away with spam, and the other gets yelled at for literally anything he posts. "
The difference is that the video Jeff posted was intended as simple entertainment, while this is something that held little interest even before it was debunked. 1 screenshot of Battlefield 3 looking a lot like Bad Company 2 with some minor UI changes isn't really news, and wouldn't seem to spark any interesting debate beyond "is it fake or not?"
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
The fact you can't see any difference is troubling. "
Please tell me what the difference is? One could actually be considered news, because rumors are news despite what you think. While the other is just pointless spam. Both people are posting things as news articles, one is allowed to get away with spam, and the other gets yelled at for literally anything he posts. "
I have small hopes for Battlefield 3. It'll probably be fine, but very similar to the previous games. The beginning of the post brings up a great point - between NFS: Hot Pursuit (which is baffling - Criterion could do their own environments, EA), Medal of Honor and BC2, DICE is busy as hell. And it's not like they have DICE New York anymore since EA let 'em go (now, they're KAOS, and they're doing Homefront for THQ). There's NO WAY Dice will be able to radically update/reinvent the game to make it stand out. Well alright; I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. But there's VERY LITTLE CHANCE that they'll pull it off.
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
The fact you can't see any difference is troubling. "
Please tell me what the difference is? One could actually be considered news, because rumors are news despite what you think. While the other is just pointless spam. Both people are posting things as news articles, one is allowed to get away with spam, and the other gets yelled at for literally anything he posts.
" Love the people saying things about Brads journalism, yet when Jeff posted a video of a girl saying Cattackalysm as news it's fine xD. Love this community so much. "
Fucking agreed, this community loves to hang off the nuts of any of the staff members, I haven't really seen such high amounts of nut hugging before.
i was gonna post and say, why is this even an article. and then i read the update. hope you learned your lesson. Brad, you do know you're allowed to post in the forums right? Next time just go ahead and do that instead for something like this.
" This is supposed to be a gaming journalism website, I don't expect to see stuff like this posted. Someone needs to reel Nicholson in on his rediculous news posting habits.
I would agree with you, but the bar is set so high, how could you possibly expect Nicholson to compete!? Anyway, he only writes 95% percent of the news articles on Giant Bomb; they should just get rid of him.
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