The first meaningful details pertaining to Battlefield 3 went online this morning as part of a rollout leading up to a Game Informer magazine full reveal. Jets and prone, 64-player competitive multiplayer, and a Fall release date for all three versions of the title have now been confirmed via various sources, including digital Game Informer, the game’s official Web site, and even the BF Blog.
Also, there’s a new trailer out there. Check it:
Not too much to glean at from this teaser, but obviously Battlefield 3 will focus on urban warfare and its trappings -- tanks, RPGs, attack helicopters, and urban sprawl. Also, take note of the heavy distortion on the BF theme song. Sounds like the beginning of the mashy, bile-spitting kind of stuff that makes for the best and nastiest war movies.
There’s not a lot more to go on here. As I mentioned, Game Informer has the scoop, and as a GI digital blog post promises, we’ll learn a lot more about the game’s single-player campaign and its multiplayer when the magazine hits. Anyone else excited?
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don't know how i feel about that quite yet, but if the singleplayer ends up being what Medal of Honor so desperately wanted to be, I can see it being pretty darn cool.
I read campaign Co-op on another site as well...
I haven't seen anyone else say that the consoles would have 64 players yet. DICE confirmed that PC would (yay about time DICE) though. Then again, DICE's games on the consoles all use dedicated servers anyway, so I suppose it's possible that both the 360 and PS3 versions will support 64 players.
The Wii version will support 128 though supposedly. And have a map editor.
Battlefield 3 does not need a single player. I have heard it has one though...which is questionable because the last game didn't have one.
On consoles.
Or at least the PS3. They need a lot of work on the netcode to fit 24 players into the 8kbps limit MS have on their games.
e: As for single player, the first Battlefield had simple AI campaigns against bots, it was good enough, same we'll get here.
Do you really care about single player in a Battlefield game?
It'll take at least 1000 hours of playtime, 'til I'll get sweet release and can give my junk a rest.
which is good (as well as 64 player multiplayer and a lots of vehicles and stuff)
Excuse my language, but, FUCK TEASERS!! :-( Why must they always tease us awww. Skyrim and then BF 3. :'(