What is Battlefield 3? What is BF3?

Well, Wikipedia goes in more detail about Battlefield 3, but BF3 is EA/Dice’s latest in the Bad Company video game series, starring you, Staff Sergeant (SSG) Henry “Black” Blackburn picking up where Battlefield 2′s storyline left off. If you use Google as any indicator, then Battlefield 3 was THE most popular video game of 2011 (FPS or otherwise), and was also the only video game in Google’s top 10 most googled things of 2011. Although billed and thought of as an FPS, there is 3rd person action in vehicles.

Battlefield 3, My Impressions

Battlefield 3 hits the ground running, literally. Staff Sergeant Henry Blackburn makes his way through the narrow corridor of a passenger train in New York in gunfight after gunfight in the opening action of the game.

Battlefield 3′s story is told through the interrogation of marine SSG Blackburn by typical good cop/bad cop CIA agents in New York asking questions about terrorists. As the interrogation progresses Blackburn recounts information to the interrogators and you get to play through the screnarios.

The graphics are fantastic, the recreation of environments and sound are all very detailed. If you like first person shooters (FPS), and especially military based FPS video games you probably will not be disappointed.

Battlefield 3 developed by DICE and published by EA is available for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and will cost about $60 + tax. If you want to play multiplayer, you might want to buy new since trying to play multiplayer online with a used game requires purchase of an additional online pass (about $10 for Xbox LIVE) and the savings of used + the online pass may not justify missing out on a brand new game disk.

DOWNLOAD: BF3 MANUALS

Since the manual did not come with Battlefield 3 (on Xbox at least) I’ve downloaded them and you can get them here if you can’t find your Battlefield 3 Manual.

Xbox 360 | Playstation 3 | PC Manual

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