Battlefield 3 (2011)

In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines. They will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging across diverse ... See full summary »

Director:

Tom Keegan

Writers:

David Goldfarb, Adrian Vershinin

Stars:

Gideon Emery, Glenn Morshower, Thor Edgell

4 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gideon Emery	...	SSgt. Henry 'Black' Blackburn (voice) (as Gideon Emmeric)
Glenn Morshower	...	Agent G. (voice)
Thor Edgell	...	Agent W. (voice)
Mark Ivanir	...	Solomon (voice)
Ray Haratian	...	Faruk Al-Bashir (voice)
Endre Hules	...	Amir Kaffarov (voice)
Oleg Taktarov	...	Dimitri 'Dima' Mayakovsky (voice)
Andrew Byron	...	Kiril (voice)
Ilia Volok	...	Vladimir (voice)
Travis Willingham	...	Ralph Pogosian (voice)
David Harewood	...	Cpt. Quinton Cole (voice)
David Menkin	...	Cpt. Joseph Brady (voice)
Ronan Summers	...	P.F.C. David Montes (voice)
Tristan Tait	...	PFC Daniel Argent (voice)
Tony Denman	...	Pvt. Jack Chaffin (voice) (as Anthony Richard Denman)

Storyline

In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines. They will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging across diverse locations from around the globe.

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Plot Keywords:

single player | playstation 3 | xbox 360 | microsoft windows | first person shooter | 

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Genres:

Action | War

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Certificate:

M

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site

Country:

Sweden

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 October 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Battlefield 3

Company Credits

Production Co:

Digital Illusions CE (DICE)

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

DTS (playstation 3 version) Dolby Digital (all versions)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

158 hours of overtime has been spent working on voice-over so far by Tomas.

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Goofs

The U.S. Marines have American flag patches on their shoulders. Marines do not wear American flag patches.

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Quotes

SSgt. Henry 'Black' Blackburn: That's a nice story. I don't see how it connects.

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Connections

References Predator (1987)

User Reviews

So Focused on Being Realistic that it Forgot to be Fun

Battlefield 3 follows a soldier who tells the story of how he and his squad fought against a terrorist group called the PLR, while also trying to undercover a handful of conspiracies.

The plot is actually presented in a pretty interesting way. At the beginning of each mission your character is being interrogated, then you play through the mission in which that character is describing. Sometimes, when the main characters don't know what happened, you get to play a mission as a character like some of the terrorists and see how the story actually went. It's an interesting idea that I appreciated, as it feels like it's actually trying to tell a story and not just make you shoot as many people as possible in a few hours.

The gameplay is decent. It's as simple as every other first-person shooter ever, so it's not hard to pick up. Unfortunately, my biggest problem with the game was in it's realism. I like realism and all, but when it's realistic to the point of sometimes unplayable that's when it's just hard to enjoy. So many levels were spent in almost complete darkness, and you only receive a small light in one of these levels. I often found myself believing someone to be on my team only to be stabbed in the back by them a minute later, which was very frustrating. Does the military seriously not give their soldiers flashlights or anything when they go into a nighttime mission? I find that hard to believe personally. Most of these dark missions were spent following someone else around. Sure, you could see the 'follow' icon above their heads, but it takes away from the feel of you being in the game. I was just chasing some guy that I couldn't even see most of the time. Very often it was almost impossible to see the opponents too. I found myself shooting randomly in the hopes of hitting someone more often than actually aiming down the sights and shooting people. I often found myself dying for reasons I didn't even know, too. Once, I even just fell over and died. No sounds of flying bullets, nothing. I just lost the will to live I guess.

Easily the worst part of the game were the vehicle missions. Controlling a tank was frustrating and un-fun, and flying in a fighter jet was incredibly boring. The tanks especially bothered me, as I often had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. I'd move to the objective, then the rest of the tank drivers would yell at me to back up, so I would. Then we'd just sit there and nothing would happen, so I moved back to the objective point and everyone would yell at me again. This happened a handful of times, and again, it was just frustrating and unclear as to what I was supposed to be doing.

Overall Battlefield 3 was okay. The story is interesting, but the gameplay is okay. It's not overly complicated, but the vehicle and nighttime missions were extremely un-fun. It had it's moments and levels that I did enjoy for the most part, but considering I didn't enjoy more than 1/3 of the game I find my rating to be very fair. I didn't play the online simply because the campaign didn't catch my interest. The story really is the best part of the game, and without that in the online I'll probably just get more frustrated and waste more time. In the end I wouldn't recommend this game, it honestly wasn't worth my time at all. The handful of satisfying times I killed someone with a shotgun (and dang, shooting those at people is satisfying) weren't worth the extensive amount of time spent running and shooting blindly in the dark.