DICE preps E3 Battlefield 3 demo, mocks Call of Duty Elite

This makes me want to buy a super pricey computer

This game is going to be THE shit!
Pre-ordering soon, as any hardcore Bad Company 2 player will do.

i've never been a BF player. hated it actually, but that 12 min trailer (i'm guessing it's the same one.. didn't watch it) makes the game look unbelievably good. i'm prob gonna buy it just to take numbers away from the CoD franchise.

I will defiantly be pre-ordering. Shame I don't have a beafy PC and only a PS3.

It looks amazing, but in the video you can already see AI stupidity in the squad/story. When the soldier gets hit by the sniper the player immediately (and slowly) drags him into cover, making himself an easy target for the followup shot. As displayed in the film Saving Private Ryan, you take cover until the threat is negated by heavy suppressive fire or at least a smoke grenade (or killing the bastard). A squad mate does eventually throw a smoke grenade, but afterwords he stands out of cover like an idiot. That would be another notch for the sniper, as he shouldn't have to: walk out, stand up, turn around, throw grenade, stand still, stand still, stand still, walk to car, crouch. And these moments occur in the scripted promotional video, so I worry about AI in more complicated scenarios of single player and coop campaigns (and hopefully skirmishes), reminiscent of the historically stupid AI in the first game BF1942. But so many other things look brilliant in the game, and the engine appears to be a massive improvement on the BF2 Refracter 2 engine and BFBC2 Frostbite 1.5 engine (predecessor to the BF3 Frostbite 2.0 engine).

If they want to take back the crown from Call of Duty, now is the chance. Activision has gotten greedy, especially with the new Elite subscription plan, so I sincerely hope they take their time and make this a knockdown punch. I am an avid player of both series' but Activision needs a wake up call after: setting the precedent for a price increase on PC games, cranking out games similar enough to each other to be considered expansion packs in the good ol' days (what is this shit about buying the maps from the previous game that came out less than a year ago??), cutting out private servers (killing a great modding community) and the new spit-in-the-face of the "Elite" subscription plan (that is setting another ugly precedent).

So please, please, don't screw this up DICE! I'll shut up after noting this promising section of the Wikipedia article on BF3:

"Battlefield 3's lead platform is the PC rather than a console. The reason for this is that the Battlefield series began on PC and DICE is staying true to its largest target user community.

Battlefield 3 will use a new Frostbite engine built from scratch. Known as Frostbite 2, it will deliver more advanced destruction, sound, and graphics than previous versions. The updated Frostbite 2 engine can realistically show how a seven-story building would collapse during an earthquake in a pile of smoke and debris."

@icerush

You do realize Mw and BF is over the world game. In real world a single bullet hit would put solider out of war field and wont heal him miracly. If you want that kind of realism i suggest you check Operation Flashpoint

Meh, I'm sure it's going to be fun. And obviously it's gorgeous and incredibly detailed. But these realistic FPS's are growing pretty stale to me.

I'll let my nephew spend his money on it and wait to pass judgement until I've actually played it.

Originally Posted by Cut-Copy-Paste

@icerush

You do realize Mw and BF is over the world game. In real world a single bullet hit would put solider out of war field and wont heal him miracly. If you want that kind of realism i suggest you check Operation Flashpoint

I wasn't saying anything about the way bullets effect your health, I'm just hoping for a solid AI. Never heard of an "over the world" game, but I've played OFP so thanks for the suggestion.

I'm looking forward to E3, maybe we'll see more demonstrations there.

cant wait to play this

honestly this single player demonstration makes the game look like scripted garbage. the player dances around, trying to behave "realistically" but really this is just a prettier version of what we've seen a million times already. truth

the real game is the multiplayer