I usually dive right into the single-player of a game before I touch the multiplayer, and in some cases never booting up the multiplayer, but for this game I have not. In fact I feel any real impetus to do so for the foreseeable future. How many of you didn't even boot up the single-player yet?
Battlefield 3
Game » consists of 15 releases. Released Oct 25, 2011
Battlefield 3 is DICE's third numerical installment in the Battlefield franchise. It features a single player and co-operative campaign, as well as an extensive multiplayer component.
Campaign
I booted it up, it's pretty by the numbers outside of a few interesting sequences.I did have one beautiful glitch where all my squad guys ran through a door and disappeared before one of them came back through the door and kicked it open for me. It was like they suddenly remembered that my character is a man with a gun attached to a stump and is completely unable to turn a doorknob. I'll finish it but it's mostly a time killer.
It has its moments, definitely worth playing, but not great. You can totally tell it wasn't the focus of the game.
I might be just a shit SP player but I got to some of the night-time levels early on, go frustrated at getting killed by cheap kills and returned home to the glorious insanity of the multiplayer straight away.
I finished it but pretty much had to force myself to. I played it on hard and there were definitely moments where I wanted to throw my controller. Especially on Operation Guillotine. But yea, this is one of the very few games where I went straight into multiplayer when I got it. Single player is nothing special.
I feel they keep the story for the Bad Company games. The core games are all about the multiplayer.It has its moments, definitely worth playing, but not great. You can totally tell it wasn't the focus of the game.
I intended to beat it before playing the multiplayer. I've played 2 or 3 hours of the campaign and 16 - 18 of the multiplayer.
I hate scripted games like these.
The game kept spawning the same enemy in the same place no matter how many times I headshotted him.
Then I walked over to the checkpoint and he stopped spawning.
Ugh.
I played through it mostly when my friends or clan mates where offline. Very short, it was decent fun considering BF2 never had a single player. I don't think it was on the story level of BFBC2. However at least as a PC player playing the game was beautiful. It felt like a benchmark program the entire time.
So achievements are the only reason I will revisit. I have about 3 of them left. Glad hard was done on run 1.
I'm almost done with it, and I have to day I don't mind it. Looks amazing, some fun set pieces, and a story that isn't as stupidly over the top as MW2 was (loved MW1, hated 2).
I think Medal of Honour had the best campaign of the recent batch (small scale, fairly realistic), followed by this, Blops, then BC2 and MW2 bringing up the rear.
Not that it matters anyway, as holy shit that multiplayer!
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