The BEST instalment yet.
Now, I'm going to leave the campaign aside for now, and start with the multi-player. The BEST multi-player of ANY shooter I have played in my life. Hands down. The large variety and scale of the maps is amazing. The physics, graphics and game-play are stellar. While there are hiccups, as with any game, like crashing a jet into the ground and it doesn't explode, it's still VERY good. But, it doesn't get a five from me for those few hiccups, as well as, and I had to come to it eventually, the campaign... While it does an amazing job of teaching you how to play before jumping into multi-player (which is what a game should do) it doesn't do enough to catch and keep my interest. It's cookie cutter, it's simply, it's predictable... and most of all, it's very VERY difficult, for some reason, even on the easiest difficulty there were times I struggled, and I breezed through Bad Company 2 on Normal. Battlefield 3 gets a 4.5 from me. It goes above and beyond the Call of Duty.