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The Full Battlefield 3 Demo

12 minutes of iron sights and explosions.

Apr. 18 2011

Posted by: Jeff

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Battlefield 3

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Sexy.

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Nice

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SOOO HYPPE

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My two 8800 GTX Ultras and my Intel core 2 Duo is going to eat this game and chew it out!

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ill never be first lol

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Either the video is slightly sped up or they have the game running at a super silky smooth framerate.

Hopefully it's the latter! Even if they are running it on some monster dual graphics card setup that's still a really impressive framerate considering how good this game looks.

My heavily overclocked 470 should run this really well if what they have said so far about performance is true.

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This came out a few days ago I thought?

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Welcome to last week

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Edited By MooseyMcMan

Yeah, it looks nice, but it also kinda just seems like another modern day realistic-ish shooter. 

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Awesome I liked 2

Crazy how real things are starting to look in games these days
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@xhavoc86: Yeah I feel you I keep trying but the closest I've gotten is seeing one comment.
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It's like a classier Call of Duty.

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Call of Realism

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@MooseyMcMan said:
" Yeah, it looks nice, but it also kinda just seems like another modern day realistic-ish shooter.  "
Looks like a successor to Battlefield 2 and much better than the crap that is Call of Duty.

It's more than 'another' modern day shooter, this is raising the bar.
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@crusader8463: Jaja wait till they announce BF3 runs on unexisting technology, and they made BF3 using a time machine and futuristic tech.After all Xbox 720 and PS4 will look like this albeit somewhat better.
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Fuck YEAH! Nice looking! Those nice DX11 shaders at work ;)

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@MooseyMcMan: There is always..BRINK.The only un generic non modern day shooter I've seen.
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Holy shit.

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@Agent47 said:
" @crusader8463: Jaja wait till they announce BF3 runs on unexisting technology, and they made BF3 using a time machine and futuristic tech.After all Xbox 720 and PS4 will look like this albeit somewhat better. "
Unless they do a Nintendo. :P
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It's pretty, but not very interesting. The multiplayer is really what I want to know about.

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Am I the only one who thinks the guns look a little weird when your looking down the sights? Still can't wait though.

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@Ygg: I disagree with calling Call of Duty crap. The CoD games have been getting progressively crazier with time, which is keeping things fresh. I certainly see the appeal of bigger scale more open stuff like Battlefield, but it just seems too normal to me. There's no Gary Oldman, poison gas, space nukes, or giant mustaches in that video. 
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Boner city.

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Looks like every other FPS on the market.

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@Ygg said:
" @MooseyMcMan said:
" Yeah, it looks nice, but it also kinda just seems like another modern day realistic-ish shooter.  "
Looks like a successor to Battlefield 2 and much better than the crap that is Call of Duty.It's more than 'another' modern day shooter, this is raising the bar. "
I went back and played Call of Duty 4 on my PC yesterday and honestly, that game still holds up incredibly well. Every game in the series after is kinda bad, or just not the same in a bad way. 

All of that said, though, I still think BF3 is going to blow it out of the proverbial water, at least in the graphics and physics department. If you take both series and try to compare them though, they're not really going for the same experience.
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"Pre-alpha," ladies and gentlemen.

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Can't waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

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@Agent47:  Some day... some day....lol
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Flashbacks to the fun I had with BF2 - good sign!

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Not sure how actual war is but the way those guys move between cover and expose their whole bodies seems like the wrong way to fight a gun battle! DICE are awesome though, please bring more Mirror's Edge!

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pretty impressive tech.  I'm not into the modern shooters but the promise of wide open maps, cool vehicles, and earthquakes has me hooked.

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Updated original statement

"Next gen graphics, Current gen gameplay"

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I gotta say, seeing that ground warp like it did is all sorts of crazy.

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More interested in that whole jet fighter bit. I love me some air-to-air combat.

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Shut up and take my money!

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Great chatter in combat.

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The sound design is INSANE on this game. Running sounds great. I'm gunna have to buy another video card for this. Never run 2 before

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Edited By beeftothetaco

DICE is well on their way to making this the next Call of Duty, and it breaks my heart. The attitude, atmosphere and weightiness that made BC 1 and 2 so unique and different from the COD series seems to be absent in this trailer. Now it just looks like yet another COD carbon-copy in a generic setting. Why, DICE, do you hurt me so?

I'll be playing BC2 if anyone needs me.

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There's no bob when sprinting...that better get fixed

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This is single-player intentionally made to be scripted. Stop thinking the multiplayer will be the same.

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This looks absolutely incredible! 

All this, "looks like every other shooter on the market", makes no sense to me. That doesn't void the game of it's own merits. The quality of lighting, graphics and animation are amazing in this teaser! 
If you're looking for a bit of diversity in the FPS genre, amazing games like Portal and Bulletstorm take a different approach. But this formula is tried to tested. The epic action story encased in solid shooter gameplay will never fail to entertain the mass market. 

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holy shit 

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Fucking B E A utiful. I almost wish that the PS3/360 could come close to that because sadly I cannot see myself getting a gaming PC anytime soon.

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why does it look so much like modern warfare.  It's supposed to be different! :( I'm a sad Panda.

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looks like a shooter 

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if that did nothing for your soul, you probably don't have one.

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so its console shooter gamplay made for pc...sure that works i guess

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I really, really, don't want to wait any longer to play this game.

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@CowsWithGuns said:
" why does it look so much like modern warfare.  It's supposed to be different! :( I'm a sad Panda. "
Any game that is not a futuristic shooter or a western will look like this. Dont blemish the name of Battlefield with COD.. COD is shit and has been for a while.