It's a waterslide with pictures scrawled on the insides. Wouldn't it be cool if deathmatch had vehicles? Wouldn't it be cool if it wasn't deathmatch at all, but teams, and squads, and objectives, and dozens of players? Wouldn't it be cool if there were tanks and jeeps and helicopters and jets? Wouldn't it be cool if the maps were enormous and buildings could collapse?īattlefield 3's singleplayer is not a movie. Battlefield games have always been grand, ridiculous, futuristic designs. If someone had told me 15 years ago that this is what online gaming would be, I wouldn't have believed them. I'll spot a glimmer from a hillside 300 metres away, and it'll be a sniper readying to kill me. On the ground below, a tank has smashed through the lower floors of the building. In the air above me, jets twirl, chased by artillery. In the distance, smoke stacks rise from a burning forest.

On its best maps – like the 64-player Caspian Border – every pixel on screen flickers with battle.

Battlefield 3's multiplayer makes me want to place a deckchair in the desert and watch the chaos happening all around.

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