Battlefield 3's five biggest failures

OXM UK: "You've read about Battlefield 3's high points - now, witness its lowest moments. None of them make this a game worth ignoring, but they do make it a game worth screaming at occasionally."

[WolfLeBlack]

Ah, that last reason brought a smile to my face :D

A surprisingly enjoyable read, I feel.

[irepbtown]

Just something I noticed,

In the campaign 'Night shift' and you're taking (Might be slight spoilers people)

Al-Bashir to the heli, as soon as I left the Mall whiteness just blocked everything. When I look down it's alright but as soon as I look up this whiteness covers the screen.

I'm a huge battlefield fan and i'm still loving the game. Just a small problem I noticed.

[Blogz4Fanboyz]

some gripes..

no colour blind option! for example, being unable to change the colour of the dot or the reticule on holographic sight.

not being able to open another server like you could on bf:modern combat

[zeeshan]

The comment that I LOVED the most would be from Mr. GRUMMY. He says:

"I've got one

server issues at launch.

Why oh why oh why does dice never learn? Every time they launch a game, the first week or so is ALWAYS a haphazard clusterf**k of scrabbling to find free servers, random disconnects etc. They never ever seem to be able to cope with the load at first.

Also on my personal irritation list

Why can I only invite a friend to my match, not try to join his? He has to invite me every time, which is a pain in the sausages.
Why, in the 'my soldier' screen, can I only see the loudouts etc for the Americans and not the Russians? I spent part of last night wondering why I was earning kills with (what I later found out were) the Russian starting weapons and not the American ones. I never knew each side had different starting weapons, I just thought it was some daft glitch. My mate had to explain it to me and tell me that, for some odd reason, 'my soldier' only shows american progression. Very strange."

Let this be known that I am on PS3 yet, I find almost the same issues there. I hope DICE will fix all these issues sooner than later.

[REALgamer]

@zeeshan

Not sure how it works for console, but on PC in the battlelog if you click on the lower-right list of friends, as well as a speech bubble to start a chat there should be a 'play' button (triangle) to jump into their game if any server spots are available.

Seems weird this would be missing from console version.

[StraightPath]

Online pass and campaign, looks like MW3 campaign will be better after all who knows.

[crxss]

4 of these biggest "failures" are related to the campaign... it's all about the multiplayer unless you were unfortunate and your code didn't work as is listed as one of the other biggest failures. None of these are actual failures IMO.

[WolfLeBlack]

Not being able to open the door until the game lets you isn't a failure as such, no, but it is bloody irritating. The rest I would class as failures, though.

[Somebody]

There's A LOT OF apartments and doors ind Deus EX HR but I'm allowed to open 2-3 pre-designated ones per apartment building even with my hacking skills maxed out. Plus, augmented people there seems to lost the art of lock picking or crushing chains and pad locks. Reviewers still praise the game highly.

So, a single unopenable door in BF 3 is still considered not a total failure.

[da_2pacalypse]

This guy is just knit picking... just enjoy the game dude.... It's a great game!

[trancefreak]

2pac you play it the single player campaign already? I'm glad you liked it but my experience was a little different I think

I thought it wasn't too deep of an experience and the qte moves were totally against how to make a fps shooter that's going for realism.

Now on the other hand I just got into the mplayer part today and while it seems cool so far since I am lost as hell, I can't stand the damn rubber band lag.

People say the game just came out give it some time for patches and it will be better.

A game shouldn't have so many problems at launch that it requires the game to be overhauled. This is what I call kick it out the door factor. Game isnt ready for prime time but we have a launch date then we will just patch it up later.

Not saying that BF3 is that way but My 2 gripes were campaign could've been so much better and the potential was there.

The MPlayer well I guess the lag is expected until the servers get tweaked.

IMO BF BAD CO. 2 Was a lot better and funner. The only part that stunk on that campaign was the boring desert part.

[Tachyon_Nova]

From my experience the biggest online failures would be:

1: Vehicles dominate the gameplay too often, and are too hard to destroy.

2. It crashes on me after nearly every round. Never during a round, but once it goes go the screen with the smoky background, it crashes there most times.

3. Takes extremely long to join a game

4. Can't change kit after you spawn (during the pre match waiting period).

5. Constantly battle the games poor collision detection when trying to walk over rubble, climb, walk over bump mapped sufraces.

6. When defending in Rush, nobody stays on base because it is more profitable in terns of kills to run off base towards the enemy camp than it is to actually defend. People don't care if they lose, the just want the points so there needs to be a greater incentive to stay on base while defending.

7. Frequently die immediately after spawning on a squad mate. If the game showed footage from the eyes of a player when you select to spawn on them,then you would get a much better view of what situation they are in than you do now.

8. Your body can clip through walls if you are backed up against one, which in some cases means you can be shot by someone on the other side of the wall.

9. No communication, on PC at least you cannot use a mic to talk to your team mates, at least not easily.

10. Basic commands like "I need a Medic", "Give we some f***ing ammo, you tw*t" are missing from commorose.

Supplentaries:

1: Shadows are the wrong length for the objects casting them. Prone on the tip of a trees shadow facing the sun and you will see that the sun is only about half way up the tree, despite you being at the top of the shadow.

2. Attackers cant enter the defenders base, but defenders can enter the attackers base.

[da_2pacalypse]

Sorry to hear you guys aren't liking it. I think the battlefield multiplayer is one of the best in a very long time. Given that EA servers do suck and lag spikes do occur sometimes, I don't blame this problem on the game. I think Dice has done everything in their power to make this game very good.

However,To all the people complaining about the campaign though: If Dice just shipped the game with the multiplayer component, like they used to do for older battlefield games, nobody would be complaining, and the review scores for the game would be much higher... so why are all sitting around focusing on the weakest mode of the game? I honestly don't see how people can complain about this campaign, but yet love the call of duty campaign. Honestly, it's the same, if not the BF3 is the better than all the cod campaigns since cod 4.

the little multiplayer bugs that you guys are noting to will be fixed though, Dice is very well known for providing lots of post launch service.

[Ju]

MP is OK, I guess. Typical BF, nothing new here. New maps, and some pretty visuals, but nothing new and nothing which really gives me the "awe" effect. Addictive, like all BF games.

But the SP is one of the worst I've ever played. If R3 gets less than 8, I don't know what this is supposed to get. Really?

One single thing could make this so much better:

A COVER SYSTEM! Damn, I mean, in a game, where the AI can spot you through everywhere, cover is crucial. Yet, you can't sneak up and take a peak of the situation. You have to hide and get out of cover...and boom, you're dead. WTH.

Generic military shooting as can be. The campaign is a total waste. They could as well release that game without. Quite disappointed.

This game has neither visually nor game play wise anything on KZ3; which I was hoping it would come close.

[IrishAssa]

Cover systems in FPS suck, it's like a crappy leaning system.

[IrishAssa]

Haha, that last one pisses me off so much in FPS. Why oh why can't we just open the door?

[xtremeimport]

should say "battlefield 3's five biggest campaign failures"

only online thing is the online pass...and that's exclusive to Xbox from what I've read anyway.

but I do agree with some of this list...maybe wouldn't call them "failures" as much as I'd call them disappointments.

[Ju]

PS3 has the online pass, too.

[xtremeimport]

Ju...im talking about the issues they have with the xbox online pass.

[bayport]

They forgot one...

EA's horrible servers...

Can't even enjoy a game because the lag is so bad.

[MariaHelFutura]

Tehrah highway is the only place ive expierenced lag, which is strange considering its one of the smaller maps.

[Legion]

"Why can't I open the door by myself, DICE? I want to open the door, DICE. You need to let me open the door, DICE, or I'll run off and write a feature about how you wouldn't let me open the door. THE DOOR. HOW IT MOCKS ME." - Too true!

Why I liked Rainbow Series and OF:Dragon Rising. Open and close those doors, a simple thing that often gets left aside.

[thetorontokid]

I just hate that you can't see more stats on all your guns, unlocked, or not!
Bad Company2 was better at this.

[Gameplay999]

Battlelog says hello! Extremely detailed statistics, more-so than BC2 ever had.

[Gameplay999]

Battlelog says hello!

[thetorontokid]

Is that an ingame(battlelog) feature? I'm really liking the game! Just finding really hard to find my gun stats, on the fly, like in BC2!

[milohighclub]

I experienced an annoying part trying to do a mission and my player just dropped dead at a certain point this happened about 4 times in a row. Also on coop my friend was just stood still and it said he was leaving the mission area and failed the mission.

[bunfighterii]

I think we've all figured out by now the campaign is not worth even starting. People are buying this for the multiplayer, pure and simple.

[mike_d_]

I honestly thought the campaign was great! I mean c'mon u gotta admit the Going Hunting jet mission wasn't EPIC and the sound just blew my surround away !

[GroundsKeeperJimbo]

I play with a 7.1 Headset and that was some of the best audio I've ever heard. They nailed that aspect; now to get theses hardcore servers up...

[Pintheshadows]

The sound in BF3 is absolutely amazing.

[kaozgamer]

yea i thought it was awesome as well. they should have let us pilot the jet in the jet mission

[torchic]

I liked the campaign most when you played as the Marines. it's like you're playing a documentary. a day in the life of a soldier in the middle of the War in Afganistan. i really liked it.

in CoD they make you feel like some kinda superhero with guns. like John Rambo or Steven Seagal

[ReservoirDog316]

Well, that's probably true but it's no excuse. The biggest multiplayer games like Halo and CoD and Killzone all have fun singleplayers. Why's bf3 counted out?

And since I generally don't care for multiplayer then you can guess how happy I am that I didn't buy bf3.

[mrsatan]

BF3 campaign is easily as good as COD is and just as scripted. Almost all the campaign complaints are the same for the both games.

[ReservoirDog316]

@ satan

Haha, well, I've seen a guy sneaking up to another guy with a knife and he somehow gets seen and has a hard attack or something. Seems poorly scripted but hey, I'll gamefly it and see if it's as good as CoD (the only singleplayer that was just stupid*** of CoD was mw2, the rest range from decent to some of the best this gen).

[Shackdaddy836]

I always thought the night mission when you were alone was really cool...

[AtomicGerbil]

Let's not forget the many other games that suffer from most or all of these problems.

I would say you could take any shooter and apply these failings, with the exception of the online pass maybe.

[mike_d_]

I also don't see why so many server complaints have been arising.Since i got it day one,i may have been disconnected 3 times at the most.And i jump into matches no problem.

[GuruStarr78]

Campaign flat out blows. I got to the tank level and gave up, it was so bad. Ende up selling my copy on craigslist yesterday for $45 (since this game will be obsolete once cod comes out and won't be worth $10)

Id recommend waiting a few weeks to buy this, as I'm sure it will be as low as 29.99 come black Friday......besides, there's too many other quality games coming out in the next few wks like skyrim, uncharted and saintsrow.

[xruiner89]

Confirmed for under age and a console player.

[vyke3]

Console player? *sighs*

[mike_d_]

I guarantee my whole entertainment system and car that game wont even below $50 black friday.You sir have no clue what you are talking about.
I believe by your name you are a kid and from your rant about CoD you are obviously a CoD run-n-gun fanboy that doesnt know about tactics.

[Trenta27]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Jio]

So, you don't like the linear campaign yet you love COD? Then you go on to say it's trash and COD is better? trololol

[Clarence]

You must be wack when it comes to BF games. Glad you sold the game. Blackops came out BFBC2 online was still busy.

[Oschino1907]

Yeah I was one of those who skipped BlOps and kept playing BFBC2 (especially cause new maps just came out) but LOL come on, even with the new maps never saw more then 50K online ever usually in the 30s that I remember for peak times. Meanwhile BlOps was pushing well over 1,000k and even after holidays was at 500k or more practically all day every day for months on end while BFBC2 began to steady around 10-20k tops after Vietnam got old...

Only reason BFBC2 held any steam at all through last summer was hype for BF3 and prices dropping for BFBC2 but sadly most of who was left were vets that knew every trick and ways to spawn trap with noobs who never played BF before or came over from COD... It wasn't nearly as fun or exciting as it was the first 6-10 months after release.

[Kahvipannu]

"Ende up selling my copy on craigslist yesterday for $45 (since this game will be obsolete once cod comes out and won't be worth $10) "

Thanks for the laughs.. :D

No seriously, that was funny, unless you were serious about that...

[BubloZX]

Trollers gonna troll I guess.....

[svoulis]

i personally liked the Russian part the best. How come some games do that. Make you feel like American marines are boring and Russian special forces aren't.

It sucks who remembers world at war?!

[chak_]

Well. I absolutly love the singleplayer part.

Sure it's a little on rail, scripted and all, but I love it, every scene is a blast to play, it's so immersive.

[Kran]

Has anybody noticed how an AI and yourself can sometimes walk in water? Literally, if you're walking over a fountain in the middle of the street, you walk on water :/

I would have thought DICE are smart enough to add a splash effect. Crysis 2 did.

[Kran]

in = on* ;P Hopefully people understood me anyway

[Jio]

I love the game, but a big failure to me is the destruction. I was thinking I would be able to tear down buildings like Bad Company only much better, only to find out it's extremely limited...

[Pintheshadows]

Yeah, that has been my main disappointment. Most of the destruction of large objects is scripted. Although tearing the Paris office apart was fun.

[BubloZX]

I KNOW!!!!

The destruction was no where near as good. Lets get rid of the jets and tanks and shrink the maps some in exchange for bad company destrutibility.

[tonywood]

This is a great game! Cry babies and campers may take issue with the no killstreaks thing.

[WitWolfy]

God I hate those campers!!! Around every turn I get killed with a kill cam showing me a noob prone in a bush, plus why cant I knife some one from the front???? Was kinda disappointed by that.....

[tmoss726]

Cause the bullets kill you. Knife < Gun.

[KonGreat]

Ever seen indiana jones? 'nuff said! :p

[WitWolfy]

That doesn't prove anything I could knife people from the front in BC 2 why change it?

[Clayman]

Yeah, the campaign sucks just like all other military shooters. The only good thing about the SP is the sick graphics and that jet mission. Multiplayer is as good as ever though.

[SITH]

The jet mission was garbage. You are in the backseat designating targets. Who the heck wants to sit in the back!? I want fly the dang jet not help shoot down aircraft with a helmet mounted target acquisition system. And why in the hell would a back seat officer be in charge of when the guns should fire!? That is beyond stupid.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

I totally agree with you sith but you've got 2 also think logically and if you've ever tried flying a jet on MP, you can notice that it takes you quite a while to get used to it if its your first time playing a BF game, not bashing on you tho I totally agree with you that the experience would be so much better if you drove the jet,with proper instructions and its possible.

[SITH]

I jumped in the fixed wing aircraft and never had one single problem, it is not allowed in multiPlayer because dice has no confidence in our ability to play the campaign aircraft missions.

[Clayman]

I agree that it would have been even cooler if you could fly the plane yourself, but I still think they nailed the immersion in that mission. The visuals and the sound really made you feel like you were actually in that plane.

[Angerfist]

I consider being so fuucking cocky one of the failures and reasons it gets this backlash

[Ju]

Nah, it just isn't good. That's why.

I am not even impressed with the visuals. Lightning is just there to show what can be done - and they do a lot with lights. Too much, actually.

And most of the time the campaign is in the dark to demonstrate lightning, yet you cannot shoot a single light to get a tactical advantage. If lightning is so huge in a game, please (!) make it part of the game play. Instead, it is not interactive at all (except the one sniper mission), and it gives you no tactical advantage at all (shoot the TVs to make the rooms darker but has no impact how it plays).

Half the time I couldn't see anything because the flare hurts my eyes. Realistic or not (I think it is totally over saturated - not realistic at all), it is still a game. If that makes it actually hard to play, it is rather a huge let down than a feature.

BTW: I don't even compare this with CoD. I don't play CoD.

[GraveLord]

ALL PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY.

[karl]

yeah but.. even soo where is the MW2 100 biggest fails?

[DANGEROUS-BEANS]

Fucking spoilers ;_;

[despair]

I'm playing the campaign and its actually worse than MW2 in some areas, and that's depressing. Unknown enemies randomly kill you without any idea where and why, hard to see at times, generic beyond belief, way too many "sit here and watch or do nothing" areas that last way to long and so far dumb story, I sat through the first 2 cutscenes and now I just skip all.

Oh and most of the environment is non destructible which is disappointing. Also whats with the "return to battle zone" (or something like that) I got in an early level, they gave me 5 seconds then killed me.UGH.

[TKCMuzzer]

agree.

[overlorduk]

I haven't been able to play it yet because my left mouse button won't work. I've read on the forums that it will work if I unplug all USB devices, but frankly I can't be bothered to do that every time I want to play the game.

Anyway, I've been watching people play the campaign on JTV and the worst things about it to me seem to be that it's far too linear, the levels are very small for a battlefield game and you hardly get to use vehicles (why couldn't they include a mission where you pilot a jet?).

[TKCMuzzer]

Whenever I see an enemy AI and my friendly AI standing in the middle of the road 10 feet from each other both shooting at other people I'm always left p***ed off.
The AI on this game is average at best and is something devs really need to up for the next generation of consoles.

Devs: Harder game levels don't necessarily mean over accurate hip shooting enemies, put some thought into it please.

[ambientFLIER]

I've been noticing a LOT of glitches and silly things in the campaign, and here are a few of them:

- You can shoot out the bulbs out of the circular metal lamps that hang on the walls (ones with bugs under them), but the light pattern remains. Why even allow us to shoot them out??

- Seams of level are visible through some walls

- In the part where the wire is traced from the humvee, shooting or throwing grenades at the civilians that surround the vehicle has no effect

- Cardboard boxes are indestructible, yet a wooden pallet explodes into tiny pieces with 3 bullets

- Rubble and some bodies disappear the instant they touch the ground

- The machine gun on the T90 tank has a solid square tip

- AI is pretty bad at times, both friendly and enemy

- Constantly respawning enemies in some parts, unless you push forward COD4-style

- Jets have unlimited missiles, rounds and flares

etc etc

Battlefield is often visually impressive, but these things really break the immersion. I hate to sound like a COD fanboy, but those game generally have more polish.

[Somebody]

I agree with the light bulb thing. Shot one while fooling around then saw the lens flare still shining.

Haven't played beyond the bridge level yet. Too busy with the multiplayer - the origin of Battlefield and one that everyone should be looking at, not the SP.

Maybe the CoD is much more polished since the very same game over and over again. They only updated the skins, textures and re-arrange stuff around for the SP. Like what a novice modder would do-play with the objects, don't mess with the codes. When I played MW2, I was astonished with the beautiful shadows and lighting, it's even better than BC2. Then I felt a sense of deja vu, as if I've seen that graphic and explosions before and heard the gunshots before - in MW1!

[Undeadwolfy]

Pretty much wrote was what I was going to say although the lighting in BC2 is still leaps and bounds better than any CoD.

There's hardly any lighting in CoD except the sun which only seems to affect planes and the character (and other odd objects like crates and such which can be moved). All the other shadows are fake and painted onto textures. The grenades, bullets, launchers don't seem to produce any light. Even the explosions dont produce any true light (that casts shadows). Look at the fire from a napalm strike in blops... It's just a flame sprite. Just a very outdated simple engine.

[bobrea]

QQ

BF3 rules.

[anony-mouse]

Every time I start up BF3, I play the campaign for about 10 minutes. Then I remember how much more I enjoy the multiplayer and switch over. I have to admit, the SP IS a bore, but who really cares? I liked BFBC2's SP more, but even then it was the same thing. Pop some bots, remember how BF is all about MP, and switch over without a second thought!

Everyone who states that this game didn't deliver, or isn't a COD killer, or is a major disappointment must have had bizarre expectations. Why would a game that has a long history as an MP game (I still remember so fondly my first round of 1942 when it came out,) be judged on it's weakest and most irrelevant component?

[Oschino1907]

I do believe much more sp footage was shown and promoted all over the past 10 months instead of multi. Blame dice and ea for pushing it so hard and using it to show off the game at every game show, event and tv show possible. If you never played BF before and weren't big into gaming what would you have been expecting?

[anony-mouse]

Good point... too bad too. I feel like if they'd promoted the game's strengths and put out a different, or better, beta, people would have come in with the right expectations. I'm really happy with the game; it's more of what I've come to enjoy from the series. I just wish more people who were on the fence about it understood why it can be worth the investment. A good product deserves to find a large and varied audience. Bad marketing epic fail I guess...

[Kahvipannu]

Agree with you guys.

"I do believe much more sp footage was shown and promoted all over the past 10 months instead of multi."

One reason for this might be that sp is easier to show year before launch, refining mp takes a lot more time. Also I believe EA's plan is to bring down CoD, it's players are suckers for over the top campaign stuff, and now finally BF has one, so it was promoted.

Everybody who knows what BF is about, after caspian-border mp-trailer, I believe no more promotion was needed for those guys. It's the other people (CoD-players) EA needed to try convert.

"Bad marketing epic fail I guess... "

I kinda gree with this too. The beta they gave us wasn't even near what release version is (it was stress-test), and was more "CoD":ish map, not huge and no vehicles, two things BF shines.

Still they promoted it in TV.. Well they kinda succeeded, 8 million people downloaded the beta, but I'm sure not all know what beta's are, specially newer consolegamers. I know one guy who desided not to buy the in launch game becouse he did not like the beta, tought after he saw the full game yesterday, he went to buy hes copy, heh^^ But there's a point still here.

Anyways, the game is AMAZING! It just can't get any better from this, ofcourse until BF4 comes out^^

Dice would deserve big sales (which it will propably get), and I wish they would beat CoD in sales(which is unlikely tought).

Not becouse I like BF more, but that would show Activision you need to do something to stay in game, not annual add-ons. They milked Guitar-Hero and Tony Hawk until no-one cared, I hope they will treat CoD-better.

[EazyC]

You should add the "You Can Be My Wingman Anytime" trophy/achievement.

Yeah some parts of the campaign on Hard are quite difficult, but you can get it done in about 7/8 hours.

[SH0CKW4VE]

Battlelog & Origin are chief fails in my book, Origin is recognised as a trojan virus? because it roots through your HDD to find information about you.

Also the poorly designed maps were you run for an hour on foot to get shot by a tank purely because there is nowhere near enough vehicles for 32 players.

But cant wait for the karkland expansion!

[Raven_Nomad]

It was nice of them to only list 5, could have listed a lot more.

[Shackdaddy836]

You never even bought the game...

trololol

[SITH]

Although I can't disagree with the issues in this article, I can't believe anyone would be surprised at the issues the campaign has. Multiplayer was the focus and it shows. It is more enjoyable and significantly more accedible.

[Kahvipannu]

Yeah, no-one BF-fans really cares about any of this, since this is first time there even is sp (except BC ones..). And to be honest, if someone buys this game becouse of sp, he/she have missed the point...

Again, haven't even touched sp yet, and propably won't,, just helping my team to bring victory in the real battlefield^^

[eridc3301]

Does any one think the game has too much contrast? Making it hard to see from distance. I think the graphics were better in bad company.

[Undeadwolfy]

Ya, single player visuals compared to multiplayer is a night and day difference. The multiplayer looks amazing whilst the SP looks like a launch 360 game. Still, the point is, in 2 days iv put 14 hours of MP time in and im not even started yet. :)

[Ju]

Actually, I tried to play that game with brightness to max and putting sun glasses on. It almost worked. LOL. It is totally over saturated. Not sure if I'd say its the contrast; but true, bright light is way too much in that game.

[_LarZen_]

I saw the headline and I thought..."fuck, yet a braindead fucker with a news site".

After reading the article I thought..."fuck, yet a braindead fucker with a news site".

[BraveToaster]

This article sucks... Most of these are minor points regarding the singleplayer, and we all know that Battlefield games are not meant for the singleplayer.

[dirigiblebill]

If "we all know" that BF isn't meant to be played for the single player, then DICE shouldn't bother with single player full stop. The multiplayer's fantastic as it is - imagine how much better it would be if they didn't blow half the development budget on some wonky COD campaign knock-off.

[Venjense]

It's actually surprising that a developer can make a SP that bad when they tried to make it good.

BF4 should just have MP, instead of crap SP include more maps and game modes.

[e-p-ayeaH]

As much people say Battlefield 3 is all about multiplayer they cant admit its still disapointing i feel that BF3 is no better ( neither worse but still... ) than Bad Company 2 but that´s only my opinion.

[_LarZen_]

The single player part is at best a okay fps game, but the multiplayer is the best you can get your hands on today.

Personaly im realy excited to see what MW3 has to compete with this, that said I know that MW3 and BF3 is two diffrent type of online fps multiplayer games. But it wil be anyways interesting to se if MW3 wil evolve and deliver like Battlefield has.

Exciting times indeed!

[Venjense]

In your opinion it's the best, I much prefer Gears 3 personally.

I like to meet opponents face-to-face, not just position myself in the right place and kill people who can't see me or who I spot first.

But to each there own, each involve different skills, I just prefer going mano-a-mano.

[AO1JMM]

The failure lies with who ever actually purchased BF3 for the campaign. LOL

[kma2k]

ive played the both bad company games in IMO the reason those were really fun was the characters in bad company were hilarious. It was a typical FPS to me but the guys made it fun. Removing the funny back & forth really made the genericness of this game show through. I mean come on how awesome is "im gonna go save me some cherleaders"

[NewVegasTroop]

the door is the problem, let us open the god damn door!!!!!!!!!!!!!@#%$#$%@

[SolDojo]

he mad

[BeardedPriest]

Wow, you can really tell who is an immature teenage fanboy just by reading his comment... Dear Lord, some of you make me sick to my stomach. If you hopped on the hype wagon and bashed MW3 in the previous months and now bash BF3 you are scum... All "CoD players Run and Gun and don't know anything about tactics?" The ignorant child who said that has obviously never called in a nuke on MW2... This game's Multiplayer is one of the best I have ever played in my life... The single player is nothing special but the levels involving former Spetsnaz Operative Dima are some of my all time favorite... And the CO-OP is really REALLY GOOD! There are a few bugs but the game is worth buying... Casual gamers and those not suited to more strategic and complex combat might not like it... because they usually like easier games like CoD. But thats ok.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I don't know about 5 failures but I do know one... And its big, and it has the potential to taint the whole game. It's the first level of the single player. It is not a good representation of the game... Honestly a big miss step by Dice. I was so under whelmed by that level I fear many may think it represents what the whole game is about.

BF3 is a very good game...save for chapter 1.

[Ethereal]

I thought there would have been at least some legitimate reasons on the list..

[HeroPsychoDreamer]

MY issues are
1. Problems with hit detection in campaign
2. Weapon refuses to fire in PM

Otherwise it's an awesome game.

[RyuCloudStrife]

"Why can't I open the door by myself, DICE? I want to open the door, DICE. You need to let me open the door, DICE, or I'll run off and write a feature about how you wouldn't let me open the door. THE DOOR. HOW IT MOCKS ME. I'VE GOT HANDS, DICE. FINGERS TOO. SEE HOW I FLEX MY FINGERS, DICE? YOUR THROAT, DICE, MY FINGERS ROUND YOUR THROAT".

I like that part.

[RiceBoy]

I smell bullcrap! I admit the story is whack but multiplayer is awesome!

[OrbMalmot]

I totally agree with the author's point of view.
I'll add that scripted, forever coming back enemies is also another pain in the back.

For exemple, when rushing to enter the bank sideways, stay in front of it and kill any enemy shooting at you from the second level : they'll get replaced evrey 2 seconds ! You can wipe out an entire division, but no, those terrorists seem to possess the 'infinite troops' perk !

[Dfooster]

They should just make these games 100% online because the only military shooters worth playing single player are the Tom Clancy ghost recon games or rainbow six series. When the media stop licking the arses of COD and battlefield then they might get round to doing some investigative journalism on games where we can play without it being over in 10 minutes, been severely half arsed or having to put up with annoying kids or adults without girlfriends just get our £40 worth out of a military shooter.

Hype drives sales. Try hyping something else for a change!!

[mrmancs]

i can only see *one* single player

[mokopa]

You MP guys dont understand that there is no difference between BF3 and the old Unreal game. You stil do capture the flag and the same game modes only on a different scene. Us sigleplayers enjoy a dose of story and adventure while u guys want the same thing in another engin. Your like kids who goes from dagga to cocain looking for the ever higher fix and finding the same thing. This is why you fool yourself into thinking BF3 MP is better than Black Ops`s whereas yu do the same thing. Sinleplayer is there for us and MP is there for you guys. Naf said, see me next year when COD MW4 is hyped and you diss BF3 & MW3.

[k4rma]

Article is spot-on imo. The Online pass was a really bad idea. We cannot even access the coop mode and play it single player without an online pass or xbox live gold membership.

The single player campaign is awful and represents everything that is bad with on-rails linear game design. I hated all the recent CoD's and this is even worse.

Many BF fans keep saying "you have to remember its all about teh MP!" But that isn't true anymore, because now the game has a single player campaign too. We are not discussing the old MP only focussed BF here, we're talking about the modern one that is supposed to be delivering an all around fun experience for every type of gamer. So if it comes with single player then gamers who play it and dislike it have every right to criticise it.

All the positive reviews just aren't taking into account the crappy single player and that is not a good message to send out to publishers, who'll just think its okay to spawn more of that crap onto the market.

[mistajeff]

am i the only one who actually enjoyed the campaign? yes, every criticism i've read about it is completely valid and i agree with pretty much every one. but i still enjoyed it. it's no half life 2 or bioshock, but i never expected it to be on that level. and when i think back, i certainly enjoyed it more than any call of duty campaign since 2.