Battlefield 3

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1893 Ratings

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  1. JamesM
    Jan 9, 2012
    0
    This game sucks on PS3. The input lag and broken VoiP makes it unplayable and Dice have failed to address these game-breaking issues. The over-the-top lens flares and contrast ratios completely hinder gameplay, and the in-game sun is ridiculous. Also, the tactical flashlight is possibly the worst idea to ever be implemented in a FPS. Ironically, Bad Company 2 is a far superior game, as itThis game sucks on PS3. The input lag and broken VoiP makes it unplayable and Dice have failed to address these game-breaking issues. The over-the-top lens flares and contrast ratios completely hinder gameplay, and the in-game sun is ridiculous. Also, the tactical flashlight is possibly the worst idea to ever be implemented in a FPS. Ironically, Bad Company 2 is a far superior game, as it simply works.… Expand
  2. Bueller
    Oct 26, 2011
    4
    I am so burnt out on being sold broken games only to suffer and hope that a fix is down the line shortly.

    Broken party system, spotty mics, connection issues to games... and more. Getting stuck on 2" high obstacles or blow-up concrete that is sitting less than a foot off the ground is over kill as far as navigating a map, any real soldier wouldn't even have to see these obstacle they    I am so burnt out on being sold broken games only to suffer and hope that a fix is down the line shortly.

    Broken party system, spotty mics, connection issues to games... and more. Getting stuck on 2" high obstacles or blow-up concrete that is sitting less than a foot off the ground is over kill as far as navigating a map, any real soldier wouldn't even have to see these obstacle they would just move right on be/over/around them, but we get to suffer the wraith of the 2" concrete slab that is in the open but cant seem to be walked over. Aircraft is a joke, moving through the air from an infantry perspective, jets look like they hover and fly in the wind like a lief in a breeze, controlling them is another thing altogether taking way to long to even get to the point of enjoyment.
    This game could have been so good... could have been.
    Sound is top notch all the weapons sound unique.    … Expand
  3. Elbxleon
    Jun 28, 2012
    4
    So shooting an enemy twice in the foot or arm results in death?!? So if you take cover behind a wall, desk, car high velocity bullets that travel between 2000 and 3000 feet per second will not penetrate that object?!? Yet somehow those same little 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds can destroy the environment around you?!? If these FPS games are trying to be more and more realistic, they have aSo shooting an enemy twice in the foot or arm results in death?!? So if you take cover behind a wall, desk, car high velocity bullets that travel between 2000 and 3000 feet per second will not penetrate that object?!? Yet somehow those same little 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds can destroy the environment around you?!? If these FPS games are trying to be more and more realistic, they have a long, long way to go.… Expand
  4. FrankDH
    Sep 13, 2012
    2
    **** game, game station for 3 bad out - not buy the game for $ 150, and a bunch of additions to 49.99 and Clos kvartals and karkand, and what we have - no weapons, no balance - M16 changed to m416, imbalance fierce, additions are uemu money , the premium generally more expensive game - buy this knife orange and all that?
  5. east_stand
    Mar 27, 2012
    0
    Untill you bring us back the previous way to play the game is COMPLETELY useless!!! Guys don't let you be blackmailed by the game dev. Simply because the wake-up one day and thought:"Oh, lets make some more money, from the gamers!!!" Great game, ruined by its creators!!! TRAGIC!!!
  6. xPyroMatt
    Feb 15, 2012
    4
    As generic as games come. The single player is downright awful, using every cliche in the book and borrowing the narrative style from Black Ops, an absolutely awful idea. The multiplayer is the only part of the game worth playing, though it gets old quickly, and if you're playing by yourself, can be damn frustrating at times as well.
  7. MeteorRed
    Sep 13, 2012
    0
    This is a boring and simplified version of PC-edition... This means that EVERYTHING is worse... and the game cost So HIGH... That it is better to buy PC version and be happy... $)
  8. Amam
    Oct 13, 2012
    3
    Battlefield 3 had so much promise. Unfortunately, Dice doesn't seem to care about their own product and the endresult is this buggy mess. There are a number of problems with it and it takes forever for Dice to come around and fix them. If they fix them. Some of these bugs, like persistent problems with spawning without your weapon in multiplayer (!) makes the game unplayable. The singleBattlefield 3 had so much promise. Unfortunately, Dice doesn't seem to care about their own product and the endresult is this buggy mess. There are a number of problems with it and it takes forever for Dice to come around and fix them. If they fix them. Some of these bugs, like persistent problems with spawning without your weapon in multiplayer (!) makes the game unplayable. The single player portion is alright, but some of the checkpoints are mystifying. It certainly seem to lack having been playtested.… Expand
  9. TheThriller95
    May 27, 2012
    4
    Campaign - About 6 hours long with no exciting, thrilling, or emotionally felt moments. After seeing the hype gathered around the campaign and a 12-minute minute video by EA, I had hopes for it and thought it would be better than the Call of Duty campaigns, but I was wrong. The only thing this has to offer is realism. It is pretty much a boring training simulator for the multiplayer.Campaign - About 6 hours long with no exciting, thrilling, or emotionally felt moments. After seeing the hype gathered around the campaign and a 12-minute minute video by EA, I had hopes for it and thought it would be better than the Call of Duty campaigns, but I was wrong. The only thing this has to offer is realism. It is pretty much a boring training simulator for the multiplayer. 40/100(F)

    Graphics - Amazing! Not that I really care about it. Not much to say here, but the lighting is good at some moments and bad at others. Not a big deal though. 100/100(A+)

    Gameplay - AI is good, but all of them look exactly the same and shooting certain weapons and flying jets are very difficuly, but that makes it more realistic. Framerate is only 30 frames per second for consoles instead of 60 Frames Per Second. 60 FPS would make the game run a lot smoother and more intense. 65/100(D+)

    Multiplayer - OK, but too team oriented. I hate being in squads, especially when the squad is terrible. All guns have 3 round burst as an option for some reason. I hate that there are vehicles online because I would hate to get killed by someone flying over me instead of doing it face to face. A lot of campers no matter what these fanboys say. You need an online pass, so you can't let a friend try out the multiplayer and take it to a friend's house and play it there unless you bring your game system with you or redownload the pass at thier house. Maps are too huge and spawning makes it worse. It's fun to play sometimes, but I have to be in a really good mood. 75/100(C+)

    Playing Time/Content - My playing time with this game won't be much and hasn't been much. Now that I have Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3....I may never play it much again. Content includes a single player campaign and multiplayer. Nothing special. 30/100(F)

    Overall Score: 62/100(D-)

    Other notes:

    It tries too hard to not be Call of Duty and ends up disappointing me. I prefer Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

    + Frostbite Engine 2
    + Hit detection
    - Terrible campaign
    - It runs at 30 frames per second    … Expand
  10. skaskaster
    Sep 14, 2012
    3
    This game has only one good thing - graphics. The other things are terrible. Lots of bugs in multiplayer is normal for this game and the developers dont even try to fix them. They are releasing patches every 3 months that fix only guns behaviour and do nothing with instant-no-reason deaths, horrible teleporting lags on servers with 1-50 ping and many other horrible things. And what aboutThis game has only one good thing - graphics. The other things are terrible. Lots of bugs in multiplayer is normal for this game and the developers dont even try to fix them. They are releasing patches every 3 months that fix only guns behaviour and do nothing with instant-no-reason deaths, horrible teleporting lags on servers with 1-50 ping and many other horrible things. And what about maps? Only 9 maps - of you want to have more you have to PAY! Thats very interesting, because EA said they will never be like their competitor - Activision, who made CoD:Elite service with free new maps/guns/etc for people who bought it. Ta-daaa Battlefield 3: Preimum!!! Really WTF?… Expand
  11. plats
    Oct 30, 2011
    4
    Campaign:
    a) You can't see your enemies.
    b) The game freezes regularly. c) When it's not freezing, it's giving you an objective that can't be completed, such as getting in a non-existent tank. MP: a) You can't see enemies. b) Most of the time, you can't play with your friends. c) When you can play with your friends, you can't communicate with them, because comms do not work in this    Campaign:
    a) You can't see your enemies.
    b) The game freezes regularly.
    c) When it's not freezing, it's giving you an objective that can't be completed, such as getting in a non-existent tank.

    MP: a) You can't see enemies.
    b) Most of the time, you can't play with your friends.
    c) When you can play with your friends, you can't communicate with them, because comms do not work in this game. Even if they did, one of your squad is always on the other team, so you couldn't.
    d) There may not be as many "noobs" playing this game, but there sure are a lot of players who seem to be very experienced in the subtle art of laying on ones stomach, thrusting gently against the ground, and making full use of point a) with a large scope on their gun.

    Conclusion:
    The game has potential. If they fix the in-game communications, the squad and team issues, somehow improve the visibility of enemies, and remove the bugs which plague the game's campaign mode, then it might actually be enjoyable. Until then, it's frustrating and incomplete, and far from the masterpiece that one-eyed fans of the series have touted it as. Starting with 10, 2 points off for not being able to see who's shooting you, 2 points off for the bugs and freezing, 1 point off for the communications issues, and 1 point off for the squad/team issues. 4/10.    … Expand
  12. Novelty987
    Dec 6, 2011
    4
    This was worth a $3.00 rent at redbox. I played the main story for about 3 hours and was already bored of it. These games are really starting to get tiring. I have no intention to buy this game. There is nothing fun about the game and if you look at the story and game play from an arm length away, it seems like a cheesy B-rated action flick.
  13. Narrh
    Nov 16, 2011
    0
    A game for kids where you can camp, camp, camp, camp and drive tanks till the fkn end boringness. Disappointed. I bought this and after buying mw3 i sold my bf3 to a friend at 40% price. I Regret that you dont know what a good FPS game is.nAt least in MW3 you train your skills, reflex, fastthinking and abilities to orient and predict. But yea, keep camping and camping and camping, simplyA game for kids where you can camp, camp, camp, camp and drive tanks till the fkn end boringness. Disappointed. I bought this and after buying mw3 i sold my bf3 to a friend at 40% price. I Regret that you dont know what a good FPS game is.nAt least in MW3 you train your skills, reflex, fastthinking and abilities to orient and predict. But yea, keep camping and camping and camping, simply wasting your time, There is 0 tactic in this game, stop comparing this "0" to the best game ever made. BF3 is like total waste of time unless you like to fly jet planes.… Expand
  14. gamer687
    Nov 29, 2011
    1
    Just got this game on black weekend at best buy for $30. I thought this was going to be a fun game but it is terrible not unplayable but just bad. The campaign was boring and the multiplayer was horrible a campers wet dream. Trying to shoot someone was a chore and almost impossible but what was harder was trying to find someone on the map. Last but not least I'm not Call of duty fanboy
  15. feliciafan89
    May 28, 2012
    0
    This game is completely broken and unplayable. It's the same thing it's always been. The frame rate is sketchy, bullets sometimes don't hit even at kissing-close range when you're aiming RIGHT at the enemy due to lag, the story is extremely boring and repetitive. The FPS genre is dying because of games like this. These days, you're given a choice of picking your poison instead of pickingThis game is completely broken and unplayable. It's the same thing it's always been. The frame rate is sketchy, bullets sometimes don't hit even at kissing-close range when you're aiming RIGHT at the enemy due to lag, the story is extremely boring and repetitive. The FPS genre is dying because of games like this. These days, you're given a choice of picking your poison instead of picking what's actually a good game. So once more, I find myself going back to Counter-Strike.

    It's basically another series of spawn, then die. I find myself sneaking around, trying to be careful and checking my corners, (as in, NOT playing this game like Call of Duty, as some fanboys will no doubt tell me not to) only to get sniped from someone on another continent. When I'm not getting sniped, I'm getting blinded by taclights used by idiots who think they're being funny by keeping me blinded for five seconds just to piss me off. That, or I'm getting killed by vehicle hogs after burning through three rockets trying to kill them. I have to suicide just to switch to the class with the rocket launcher, because I either have no teammates with rocket launchers, no teammates who can be bothered to take care of it, or no teammates nearby, period. It's like I get a hundred deaths for every one kill I get. The only consolation is that I got to sell it to someone else for the price I bought it at. I hated this game so much I wouldn't accept what GameStop would've offered me for it.

    I'm really, REALLY surprised that anyone likes this game. It's like some people will just fanboy a series all the way to the end, go all the way to it, and will never, ever admit that a game has flaws. Not that MW3 doesn't (believe me, I know it does), but this game has even more flaws.

    Furthermore, EA insists that a used copy constitutes buying a new online pass to access multiplayer. Their official statement was along the lines of "it hurts us when you buy a used game, and that's why we're doing this".

    Here's the deal, EA: Your cash cow is officially broken. Make a game that isn't a steaming pile of crap, and you won't have to deal with that. I'll be more than happy to buy a new copy. Considering how awful your track record has become in the last five or so years, good luck with that. o_o    … Expand
  16. Richardg234
    Nov 14, 2011
    4
    The game is all graphics and no fun.Awful Campaign,multiplayer's okay.Just awful.Modern Warfare 3 has a better campaign,Multiplayer's fun and it has Spec Ops so if you finished the single player you would have more to do.
  17. RedHotFuzz
    Oct 30, 2011
    4
    What a major letdown from Bad Company 2. Apparently DICE decided to follow the lead of Modern Warfare and go with the brainless twitch-frag model rather than the highly-strategic play of Bad Company 2. Brace yourself for endless campers lying prone in every possible location, waiting to dust you the moment you walk around a corner. Some of the maps are set up with choke points where youWhat a major letdown from Bad Company 2. Apparently DICE decided to follow the lead of Modern Warfare and go with the brainless twitch-frag model rather than the highly-strategic play of Bad Company 2. Brace yourself for endless campers lying prone in every possible location, waiting to dust you the moment you walk around a corner. Some of the maps are set up with choke points where you end up in a large group Mexican Standoff lobbing grenades at each other. Boring.

    Some of the Bad Company 2 flaws still exist. Since when can a shotgun kill a human in body armor from 50 yards away? Lame. Getting fragged the moment you spawn somewhere? Check. (This didn't seem to be a problem in BC 2). And how is it you can be blinded by a flashlight *in broad daylight*??? Seriously? Aiming seems terribly twitchy as well.

    Graphically the game may be more detailed than Bad Company 2, but it's taken on a decidedly more cartoonish appearance with artificially-saturated color and soldier character models that somehow look and move less realistically than in Bad Company 2.

    Most annoying of all is the inability to kill the voiceover sound. This option was available in Bad Company 2, but not in BF3. Yeah, I want to listen to voiceover actors screaming about getting "f**ked in the a**" (true quote from the game) constantly. Thanks DICE, thanks a lot.

    I'll be selling this game the first chance I get. What a disappointment. I was hoping DICE would stick with the "Not Modern Warfare" model, but instead they've followed that juvenile game's lead and catered to that game's typical buyer.    … Expand
  18. Catatau
    Nov 14, 2011
    0
    There is no fun playing this game. Only campers around the maps and there is nobody helping each other like I heard , no team working together. Modern Warfare 10 x 0 Battlefield 3.
  19. bxjrol
    Oct 26, 2011
    2
    There are so many things wrong with this game for it to receive such high scores, every multi-player mode is essentially a Team Deathmatch, because of the respawn tickets, so no real need to complete objectives, Indication/objective markers will completely obstructs your view, especially so when aiming, an enemy can be completely hidden from view if an objective marker lies between you twoThere are so many things wrong with this game for it to receive such high scores, every multi-player mode is essentially a Team Deathmatch, because of the respawn tickets, so no real need to complete objectives, Indication/objective markers will completely obstructs your view, especially so when aiming, an enemy can be completely hidden from view if an objective marker lies between you two , Damage is obviously not registered correctly a spray from a LMG is apparently not as powerful a 2 shots from a 9mm pistol, and headshot do not register that often, came behind a sniper aimed at the back of his head and place a burst from my M4 into the back of his head he got up and ran away, the flash lights are also brighter than the Sun and can blind you from long distances. You can actually have your back to a wall and go prone, unlike Call Of Duty which will not allow you to do so because there would not be any room for legs, Battlefield3 does and your legs are basically fused into the wall with half you body sticking out, campers delight, the vehicles are not as spectacular as the commercial and "supposed unbiased" reviewers, showed and claimed they were to be, the jet fighter travel at an unbelievable slow speed, its not hard to get a target lock, but hey they have more counter measures than than a single engineer has missiles. the way they fly also looks very abnormal and is far from fluid. Bolt action sniper rifles in the game are so unrealistic, no sniper would ever take his eye off his sights to pull back the bolt, you cant switch rooms during game intermissions, you have to quit back to the main menu, and you can only customize your load outs during the middle of a match, spawn points are done terribly, spawn camping is the worst I've seen since Socom 3 no type of spawn protection at all. Now finally aside from some lag, the occasional error connection message when trying to get into multiplayer, lack of game modes, including a hardcore mode, whats good about the game you say, well ill tell you, i really like how this game uses bi-pods, unlike in COD where its only for show, Battlefield implements them to, my enjoyment, very well. i also like the variety of weapons and equipment for each kit, but its still no "create a class" like COD, that's about it this game does not live up to all the Hype, i wonder how much EA payed for those clearly bias reviews, this is why you cant trust certain media outlets, with all its problems its far from perfect.… Expand
  20. mxpxboy
    Nov 10, 2011
    0
    They should have just called this game "Battlefield: Bad Company 3". They could have even called it Battlefield: Medal of Honor" because it's basically the same crappy game. Spawn, get sniped. Spawn, somehow manage to run 500 yards, get sniped. Rinse repeat. Let's not even mention the the HUD and graphical overlays looking pretty much identical across every game that DICE develops whetherThey should have just called this game "Battlefield: Bad Company 3". They could have even called it Battlefield: Medal of Honor" because it's basically the same crappy game. Spawn, get sniped. Spawn, somehow manage to run 500 yards, get sniped. Rinse repeat. Let's not even mention the the HUD and graphical overlays looking pretty much identical across every game that DICE develops whether it be BF, BC or MOH. You'd think they could change it up wouldn't you? IMHO, stay away from this game. But if you insist on getting spawn sniped over and over, just get BC 2 or MOH and save some cash.… Expand
  21. Revolver68
    Nov 14, 2011
    0
    Another year and not surprised at all EA has dropped another massive DUMP on those foolish enough to buy this Buggy, steaming pile of CRAP. They will never get a Cent from me, not suckered in by the hype like so many LMAO
  22. Mattaclysm
    May 4, 2012
    2
    After experiencing how broke MW3 was I decided to finally pick up Battlefield 3 since I heard only great things and videos of the game looked like the game was worth at least a shot. Being halfway through the campaign I found myself regretting what I had just done. I regretted buying this boring game. I am sorry but Battlefield 3 is by far one of the most boring first person shooters IAfter experiencing how broke MW3 was I decided to finally pick up Battlefield 3 since I heard only great things and videos of the game looked like the game was worth at least a shot. Being halfway through the campaign I found myself regretting what I had just done. I regretted buying this boring game. I am sorry but Battlefield 3 is by far one of the most boring first person shooters I have ever touched. The voice acting is not even sub par it's terrible. Nothing sounded real, there was too much cursing it sounded like whoever wrote everything was some foul mouthed teenager. The graphics are incredible but behind those beautiful graphics is one of the most generic shooters, I think ever. Theres a hell of a lot of bugs too. Did I mention that? I found myself getting blinded by street lights that would not go away unless I restarted my playstation 3, getting stuck on walls and going through walls are some of the many bugs I had. I eventually finished the campaign after hours of experiencing the magical repetitiveness so then I decided to give the multiplayer a try. It was incredibly fun at first, which is the reason why this game is getting a 2 from me. Team deathmatch is fun and has a few similarities to what call of duty has to offer but here is what I didn't like, it takes too long to unlock stuff - in these kind of games I like trying out new guns and it felt like it took forever to start unlocking guns that weren't worthless.. Playing maps with vehicles is incredibly boring even playing with friends I found myself being flat out bored driving around in tanks or helicopters. I don't care about people saying things about teamwork - when I play games I want to have fun. I would not recommend this game to anyone who is expecting a game with an epic campaign. The multiplayer is fun for a few weeks but eventually becomes repetitive with slow paced gameplay and slow unlocks. In closing don't be fooled at the videos people post on the internet of this game. It's more boring then it looks. I'm not sure where people got off calling this game more tactical then CoD but when I think of a tactical shooter I think of Rainbow Six not battlefield. Not to stir the MW3 vs BF3 pot any further, but I would take another rehashed Call of Duty over this turd.… Expand
  23. karmasleeper
    Nov 8, 2012
    4
    Many maps are too still too large for the 24 player cap even after having been redacted from the PC version. Input lag from the controller makes aiming and maneuvering the maps a chore. Choppy framerate and loooong texture load times make an otherwise good looking game that much worse. VOIP is broken. The singleplayer portion of the game is less a game and more a series of quicktimeMany maps are too still too large for the 24 player cap even after having been redacted from the PC version. Input lag from the controller makes aiming and maneuvering the maps a chore. Choppy framerate and loooong texture load times make an otherwise good looking game that much worse. VOIP is broken. The singleplayer portion of the game is less a game and more a series of quicktime events and long corridors with no freedom of movement or exploration - aka every modern FPS. Save yourself the trouble and just get the PC version. I have no idea if the 360 version suffers similar issues or is more sufferable.… Expand
  24. thecat
    Nov 7, 2011
    3
    ***I Had to copy my review here as I didn't realize that I posted on the PC*** People who are rating this game 8+ must be playing a different game than me. No one was more anxious for this game than me. After a year of hype and trailers I was really waiting for this. I've been playing BF2 constantly for the past year. I stopped buying MW after the mess that MW2 had become. infinity just***I Had to copy my review here as I didn't realize that I posted on the PC*** People who are rating this game 8+ must be playing a different game than me. No one was more anxious for this game than me. After a year of hype and trailers I was really waiting for this. I've been playing BF2 constantly for the past year. I stopped buying MW after the mess that MW2 had become. infinity just rewraps the same bullsh*t add a fresh coat of paint and shoves it at you an call it innovation. When BC2 came out it was like no other game. You could do and destroy anything!! You think you're gonna camp here for the whole game? WRONG, there's no wall behind you! Drive tanks, fly ATTACK helicopters, 4 wheelers, UAVs and turrents! You name it BC2 provided and then. BF3 was announced and we got word of all the wonders that would befall us in this game. And show the COD franchise how real developers and networks stand by their fanbase. I refer to all this is to emphasize how utterly disappointed I am in BF3. I realized from Beta that this is NOT the BF I knew and loved. This felt cheap. And EA chose the absolute worst map to allure players from COD as it was not displaying BF's to its truest. We all know of the annoying network outages and glitches that happened in the beta stage and EA assured us that what we were playing was not the final product so I shrugged it off. Now that the final game was released I hoped it would be the same as BF2, IT IS NOT. Those users saying the game play is the same WRONG. The game play is no where near as smooth as BF2 and that game could have been smoother. This game is a pretty mess. I will only be referring to Multilayer as Campaign got me so angry I had to take 2 xanax (I think I've made my point here). From a simple thing as the inability to walk over a tiny object on the ground to the daunting task of getting out of a room, this game has become what I hoped it wouldn't... COD with vehicles. EA if you cant do something right, dont bother doing it at all. How is it that you can shoot a person square dead in the head emptying TWO clips one from you main and the secondary after switching to you side arm and your opponent will have enough time to stop. turn. shoot you once and you are dead.? EA can you PLEASE explain this cause I am stumped. I have had folks massacre me on 0%. 0%!!!!! I was killed by a ghost y'all!!!! Why can't I cook a grenade?? Why is player mute either you mute the entire squad or none so if I have a team member that is actually benefiting to the team and a kid screaming at his mommy I have to deal with all of that or mute them all? HOW do I end up in an entirely different class when a new game starts? WHY the **** does it take to goddamn long to get up from prone!!??? WHY all the theatrics to knife someone??!!! You have to ensure NO ONE is around you if you're knifing someone cause the length of time it takes to do that crap will get you shot! I have to wonder if EA just focused all their energy into just making the game look pretty and sounding fantastic and just left out the heart of the game. Cause that is what I got from the store. So thanks EA, thanks for ruining a great game! And replacing it with cheap, marketing MESS! Xoxo!â… Expand
  25. Rammari
    Nov 11, 2011
    0
    It has terrible single player mode and bad, empty spec ops mode. Multiplayer mode is full of campers. It has lots of unfixed bugs. Maps are not enough. Frames per second is under 30, unplayable.
  26. 1True_Gamer
    Dec 2, 2011
    1
    I have had to update my score for this game for online play, now when you shoot at someone with that blinding flashlight my gun stop shooting hit detection is worst now then when I first got the game.
  27. Visegrip117
    Jan 9, 2012
    0
    Wow what a let down.

    This game is completely broken on PS3. It is plaited by controller input lag, and severely broken mics.
    The input lag makes aiming a pain, and the broken VoIP system makes communication with your team nearly impossible .
    If given the chance to do again, I wouldn't buy this game. Nearly 3 months with no fix in sight. Pathetic support DICE
  28. BleacherBum23
    Nov 26, 2011
    4
    I am thoroughly disappointed and frustrated with this game. As a loyal Battlefield fan, I was expecting the same game play formula from the other successful titles in this series, but what I got was an embarrassing single-player campaign and multiplayer that is slow-paced due to oversized maps, vehicles that are too hard to control (the jets are a waste of time), and shooting mechanicsI am thoroughly disappointed and frustrated with this game. As a loyal Battlefield fan, I was expecting the same game play formula from the other successful titles in this series, but what I got was an embarrassing single-player campaign and multiplayer that is slow-paced due to oversized maps, vehicles that are too hard to control (the jets are a waste of time), and shooting mechanics that make it virtually impossible to get consistently good shots. "Real-war" my ass, this is a video game- all I wanted was entertainment and all I got was a waste of $60. What a shame!… Expand
  29. ric88
    Jan 3, 2012
    4
    Big maps, incredibly awesome sound, nice teamwork, vehicle warfare. All ruined by a 30-FPS limit. No shooting game should EVER run at 30 FPS, specially the multiplayer. This ruined the experience for me.
  30. Uzi_Lover
    Nov 3, 2011
    4
    Real let down of a game that I am on the way to trade in for Uncharted 3, the multiplayer is average at best and thats if you can get in a game as it's broken, I get the feeling it was rushed to beat the COD launch and it's just a mess, why bother with a beta! Normally I would be ok with this and just play some single player until the bugs have been ironed out but unfortunately the theReal let down of a game that I am on the way to trade in for Uncharted 3, the multiplayer is average at best and thats if you can get in a game as it's broken, I get the feeling it was rushed to beat the COD launch and it's just a mess, why bother with a beta! Normally I would be ok with this and just play some single player until the bugs have been ironed out but unfortunately the the single player is even worse, buggy and so scripted to the point of it being hilarious in places due to the ridiculous things it insists you have to do. Coming up the stairs in the Night Shift level only for the game to insist that you use a knife to kill an upcoming guard, why becomes obvious as there is a cut scene coming up invoving a struggle with him, you try and do anything else its mission failed! Enemys taking shotguns to the face and nothing happening, bullet proof glass in stair well in one level or car headlights that can't be shot out, so many things wrong with it. A rushed and buggy mess and I think COD will now be the better game which is a shame as BF2 was a classic.… Expand
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#23 Best PS3 Game of 2011
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#4 Most Discussed PS3 Game of 2011
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#20 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2011

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. Push Square
    Feb 10, 2012
    80
    Hopefully EA reconsiders its approach to toppling Call Of Duty in the future, and allows its games to develop their own personality, rather than imitate something else.
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  2. Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
    Jan 4, 2012
    80
    Despite its incredible competitive online play, we can't ignore the shortcomings of its campaign and Co-Op. [Jan 2012, p.66]
  3. Official PlayStation Magazine Benelux
    Jan 2, 2012
    90
    The nine multiplayer maps seem to be designed specifically to let players come up with their own creative strategies. Compared to COD, this gives the player a real sense of freedom. There is no such thing as a perfect strategy or a trotten path. [December 2011, p.74]
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