![]() ![]() You'll want to adjust your position in order to get the best possible look at your targets, and it adds to the realism of the game's scenarios. It sounds frustrating, but it's really not. Perhaps most noteworthy is the way that lighting works as hindrance in Battlefield 3, with bright sunshine realistically impairing your vision. ![]() Brighter environments don't hold up quite as well, but utilise similarly impressive use of lighting. There's a real sense of depth to the image, enhanced by striking particle effects and realistic fog. Here rain beats down on the surrounding urban streets, reflecting soft streaks of light into your scope. One missions sees you supporting an AI-controlled unit with a sniper rifle from an adjacent rooftop. ![]() Though we should point out that Battlefield 3 runs at half the framerate of Activision's series.īattlefield 3 is arguably at its best in darkly lit environments. It struggles to better Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, but it stands up next to Killzone 3 and makes Call Of Duty look old by comparison. Battlefield 3 never quite hits the heights that EA promised, but it's still easily one of the best looking games on the platform. DICE's spangly new Frostbite 2.0 engine not only looks sensational, but also sounds great too. Thankfully, Battlefield 3 lives up to the hype when it comes to presentation. Should you ever dare to explore outside of the game's linear pathways, you'll be punished by a glowing red error message informing you to return to the action or forfeit the mission. It's surprising that, even though the engine is perfectly capable of letting you control vehicles in multiplayer, you sit as a passenger for nearly the entirety of Battlefield 3's campaign. A sprint down an open rural farm boasts multiple NPCs and vehicles, but for the majority of the campaign you'll find yourself on rails or funnelled down corridors. The campaign has its moments, but it rarely captures the essence of the Battlefield franchise. It's a bit like ruining the conclusion of the Titanic - of course the ship goes down at the end. Yes, there's a nuclear bomb, and yes, there's an AC-130-inspired mission. Ordinarily we'd attempt to avoid spoilers in a review like this, but Battlefield 3's so predictable that we're not sure it really matters. It's the exact same formula adopted by Call Of Duty, but without the element of surprise. Within thirty minutes of the campaign's opening you'll have hijacked a train, and witnessed an earthquake. The problem is that, like Call Of Duty, Battlefield 3 is almost always turned up to eleven, and it rarely makes time to drop the bombast in order to make the set pieces more surprising when they eventually arrive. ![]()
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