Damn was that short. I was let on to believe it was 6 hours or more. Not that I really care, but that's a shorter campaign than in Halo 3. :-(
 
I guess there's incentive to play through it twice for all the collectibles, so there's your 6 hours.
 
Edit: Actually scratch that, I miscounted. It took me a little over 4 hours.

4 hours?
 
That's even shorter than MW2; and that was SHORT.

Thats pretty damn short, I'm getting this for multiplayer but I still want to enjoy the single player like I did the first.

that doesnt matter as long as it is awesome right?

Fail. 
I finished MW2 in 4 and a half hours, but I totally enjoyed it as it was fucking awesome. But 3 hours?  
 
Also, I remember Halo 3 being a solid 8-10 hours.  That is lengthy by todays standards. 

I'm on my 6th hour, playing normal and with 2 deaths.

Hmmms... Hopefully the Multiplayer's legs are significantly longer. 
Although it DOES seem like the norm is 6 hours or more.

A fine example of short but sweet. 
 
After playing through the campaign, I can now understand the utter hatred and animosity towards helicopters the GB crew share.   
Fucking choppers man, I musta died at least 6 times at one point battling two simultaneously on foot while fighting off militia and the like... 
 
Not looking forward to that particular part on hard mode I'll tell ya.

Multiplayer?

Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer.

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

Heaven forbid someone plays single-player on normal! Clearly they are out of line! "

I've played on normal, I'm on the second to last level, and I've played about 6 to 7 hours. I would fancy myself fairly good at FPSes and died only a few times. So 3 or 4 hours doesn't really seem....real to me.

" @Symphony said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

Heaven forbid someone plays single-player on normal! Clearly they are out of line! "

So true. Sounds like the thread starter should have their ass beat for sure. "

" that doesnt matter as long as it is awesome right? "

Well, I just did the entire singleplayer on normal today, not wasting any time, and it took me from 10:30am to 4:30pm so.... 6 hours. I then proceedd to play 8 hours of multiplayer so rest assured, theres plenty of hours to be had there.
 
Random point: Remember Half Life 2? Weird how things have changed.

" Well, I just did the entire singleplayer on normal today, not wasting any time, and it took me from 10:30am to 4:30pm so.... 6 hours. I then proceedd to play 8 hours of multiplayer so rest assured, theres plenty of hours there. "

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

Heaven forbid someone plays single-player on normal! Clearly they are out of line! "

" @Symphony said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

Heaven forbid someone plays single-player on normal! Clearly they are out of line! "

I'm just annoyed that everytime theres a new game people bitch about how long the single player is when chances are they 1. Rushed it . 2. Played on the wrong difficulty 3. Its Multiplayer focused "

3 hours seems a bit short. Sounds like the kind of playthrough, where you run past everything and skip all cinematics. 6-10 hours seems to be the general consensus. 
 
I'm only getting my copy in 2 hours from now, so I don't know yet for certain. Pretty sure it will take me 6+ hours to complete though.

I finished in about 6. Short indeed but it was fun.

Stop playing on easy mode, play on the hardest difficulty, enjoy the fucking ride.

" @Donos said:

" Well, I just did the entire singleplayer on normal today, not wasting any time, and it took me from 10:30am to 4:30pm so.... 6 hours. I then proceedd to play 8 hours of multiplayer so rest assured, theres plenty of hours there. "

You're forgetting that massive 3 hour shit you took at noon. "

" Stop playing on easy mode, play on the hardest difficulty, enjoy the fucking ride. "

I'm going to do hard mode once I pop in my copy (it's on my shelf, calling to me), but I honestly expect most of my time to go toward multiplayer.  I didn't get this game for the campaign.

I probably won't even play the single player at all so it doesn't bother me AT ALL.

Weird. Took me 7 or 8 hours on normal. I can maybe imagine finishing it that quickly if I were to plow through it on the lowest difficulty setting, but that goes for most games.

" @Symphony said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

Heaven forbid someone plays single-player on normal! Clearly they are out of line! "

I'm just annoyed that everytime theres a new game people bitch about how long the single player is when chances are they 1. Rushed it . 2. Played on the wrong difficulty 3. Its Multiplayer focused "

Since it took everybody else at least 6 hours to complete the campaign, the OP kinda looks like a troll to me. 
 
There's 45 minutes of cutscenes in the game. Nah - unless you've broken the game somehow and rushed through the triggers, it just doesn't seem feasible to me. I'm seriously suspicious of your statement. 
 
And I've got another day of wait ahead of me. Damn Euro release date.

" Since it took everybody else at least 6 hours to complete the campaign, the OP kinda looks like a troll to me.  There's 45 minutes of cutscenes in the game. Nah - unless you've broken the game somehow and rushed through the triggers, it just doesn't seem feasible to me. I'm seriously suspicious of your statement.  And I've got another day of wait ahead of me. Damn Euro release date. "

I'm playing on Hard, and I'm on my 3rd-4th hour and am have about 3-4 levels to go. Probably going to end up at about 6 hours, which seems like the norm (beat MW2 on veteran in 5 1/2)

6 hours on Vet to beat MW2. So if I can beat it on hardest mode in like around the same ill be satisfied. However i bought it for the mp and not the sp at all.

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

This is why I love you. "

Hard mode is rather easy.

" @Stang said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Shut up holy fuck, play on a higher difficulty and play Multiplayer. "

This is why I love you. "

Lol im glad the single player achievements don't make you have to play on a certain difficulty, i hate games that do that "

Took me 4 hours, I died a few times, too.

The length felt good to me, considering I wasn't enjoying it that much knowing I could have been playing the glorious multiplayer :)

Sounds like you didn't stand around doing nothing but listening to your squad enough.

If you check the trophies/achivments. Its apparent they made the game for multipayer. 

Expecting a epic length from a Battlefield campaign? Huh... that's totally the point of Battlefield. 

" Took me 4 hours, I died a few times, too. The length felt good to me, considering I wasn't enjoying it that much

" If you check the trophies/achivments. Its apparent they made the game for multipayer.  "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" If you check the trophies/achivments. Its apparent they made the game for multipayer.  "

Hell the cover says Defining Online Warfare. "

If you look at the cover this time around there is no sign of the four protagonists of the single player campaign. Hell, there are even gamertags over each vehicle shown on the cover. I think that should give you a pretty good idea of where their focus is with this game.
 
That being said after having just played through the single player I thought it was enjoyable and about the right length. While the story made little to no sense it's just an excuse for you to shoot people in various interesting environments. However, I have to say I'm getting tired of the the sudden cliffhanger endings in most big budget shooters these days. Can't we ever just wrap a story up guys?

Yea i just finished the campaign and it was short as hell. But w/e the multiplayer is sexmazing and that's all i cared about with this game.

to me, that's a lot better than bad company 1. there were only 8 missions but they were like 1-2 hours EACH and it just fucking draaaagged on foreeeever.

This game's got lasting appeal, but not in the singleplayer. Maybe I'll go back to it a second time, but damn, it was short. Jeff wasn't a huge fan of the singleplayer campaign in his review, either.
 
I'm not saying you shouldn't get this game. I'm four hours into multiplayer and it's an absolute blast. It runs a lot smoother on PC than did the beta; I had connection problems at first, but fixed them by running administrator mode and manually updating punkbuster. Great stuff, I haven't had this much fun playing a multiplayer shooter since BF2, although it can be a little frustrating at times (die, respawn, die, respawn sort of deal).

Man, I am dieing a lot more than i thought I would in SP