Turns out that Battlefield 3 is a lot like Call of Duty

IncGamers: Hands-on with the first two hours of the campaign.

[WolfLeBlack]

A title sure to attract plenty of attention. *puts on protective armor and dons some spiffy goggles*

This should be amusing :D

[malol]

all i got to say is
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

but campaign side
yah i have to agree
but then again all FPS single players are the same so yah

[evrfighter]

trolling articles are becoming more common nowadays.

I can actually see why the misconception is there if you're a console player. metro effing sucks. crappiest map DICE has ever made.

the game would have been perfect if squads were working as intended on caspian border. too perfect actually.

well tbh I'd like to see jets get some buff love. no longer get that "oh sh**" feeling when I see an enemy jet flying right at me. I can completely ignore them and I'll never get killed by them on the ground.

[grifter024]

Evr....last I checked Jets are Anti Vehicle mainly...I doubt we would waste a 40 million dollar plane on infantry, which we dont.

[hakis86]

"My immediate response to playing the first two hours of Battlefield 3’s campaign was (and still is), “do we need another single player experience like this?” "
Why didn't the author pull his head out of the ass and think this when the launch day approaced for Modern warfare 2, Black Ops, Medal of honor, Modern Warfare 3, etc ??

got to say: DAMN that screenshot looks SO nice... Wish I had a PC to max BF3 =)

[Tachyon_Nova]

Ever played Crysis/Crysis 2? It doesn't play anything like other FPS's.

[jeseth]

I was not surprised when I saw dudes running around with RPGs in a subway, and snipers camping in the tunnels ...

Other than having vehicles, Battlefield games and its players are no better or worse than Call of Duty players.

[ATi_Elite]

Although I still haven't played the SP campaign in BC2 ( too busy with MP) and most likely will not get a chance to play BF3 SP campaign cause again I will be way too busy with the MP....

I am a little piffed that you do not get to fly the Jet in the SP campaign. That would of been an excellent training ground for "Rookie Pilots"!

Nothing is worse than jumping in a Heli or Jet only to have some Newbie Pilot crash 10 seconds after take off!!

Kind of hard to bail out when your upside down!

[Rivitur]

Don't even waste your time on that short 5 hour crap they call campaign on BC2. That campaign marked the end of Battle Field sp saying they didn't want to be like Call of Duty as that sp had nothing but cheap ass action scenes and a story put together by a newborn.

[BattleAxe]

Here's what we've learned during the BF3 Demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

I can't wait for the retail release of the Beta!

[NeoTribe]

That was hilarious. Real game wont be like that ofcourse. That retard walk had me goin.

[Mr Tretton]

idk, BF2 had a lot of the same kinds of bugs in the final version. I actually hope funny bugs stay in, but no falling through the ground, that sucks.

[Kahvipannu]

Yeah, I have seen all of these in beta, damn funny, specially the "retard run".^^ Now I just ignore them and keep playing.

Tretton

That was fixed during beta.

[just_looken]

you forgot this 1
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[crematory]

if they refer to weapons damage system i agree
its just the health system is too low to fire back
first see first kill

[cyborg6971]

Wrong in cod you can get shot in the back, turn around and stab him. That's the beauty of their net coding.

In battlefield you can get shot in the back take cover sit on a med pack and ice the guy. Unless they are shooting you with the ump. But that gun is getting nerfed for retail.

[vickers500]

So in one

one can easily respond quickly with a knife that doesn't actually have to be on the guy to kill him...

in the other

the guy can be shot with a bullet from a sniper rifle but not die, crouch, throw out a magical health box, maybe start a fire and roast a few marshmallows, pop up kill the guy with a few bullets from an automatic with a scope on it...

gee, both options sound so alluring.

[Flavor]

The flying sequence is on rails? Really? The game won't let you fly the jet in SP?

Maybe this game is just a tech demo for frostbite 2...

And framing Iran as the target for a US invasion is just plain arrogant, irresponsible, and stupid.

[RegorL]

The SP is also a tutorial.
If you can't handle flare, robots, ...

How would you be able to handle the full experience?

There would be even more complaints if you in the third chapter of SP was put in a jet and assumed you could master it; fly, handle robots, flare, ... all at the same time
- "this is too difficult"

Re: Iran - we will see what the future brings... Isn't there an election before 2014?

[Rettom]

Serious question: Are you from Iran? People these days are so sensitive.

[GameZenith]

Are you Irani? People these days are so insensitive to other perspectives that aren't their own.

Point is, it is easy to say that someone is too sensitive if you do not understand a situation or have a similar perspective as the other person.

[eak3]

But its ok for Russia to invade America in the COD series????

[HeavenlySnipes]

put out a beta. I would of actually bought the game if I didn't play the beta!

Arkham City here I come!

[StealthyRay]

Did you even read the article? It only focused on the single player campaign, not the multiplayer.

[Jamaicangmr]

Ok i'm getting both Batman and BF2 but you seriously just chose batman over BF3? I think you got ur priorities mixed up.

[MysticStrummer]

"I would of actually bought the game if I didn't play the beta!"

Maybe someday you'll understand how incredibly silly that is. Sort of like how my little brothers used to think New Kids on the Block were cool.

[pedo_across-the-road]

Far too many campers on battlefield!

[TheClown]

Too many run & gunners that walk out into the open on call of duty.

[pedo_across-the-road]

that's why you have to be on your guard
(I recommend ak47-u with rapid fire)

[Finger-Eater]

Is that a problem?

[SJPFTW]

LOL there are no campers in call of duty? worst part campers get rewarded in call of duty with over powered killstreaks.

[pedo_across-the-road]

Kill-cam allows you to you to anticipate the campers next move.

[Kahvipannu]

Well, bring a tank next time^^

"Kill-cam allows you to you to anticipate the campers next move. "

Same thing in BF..

[Tanir]

just another shooter.

sick of these games coming out every year. like 50 diff shooters every year and almost no puzzle, good action, jrpgs, platformers, etc. so many genres and yet all everyone makes is shooters. sure they sell.....but ever think they only sell because thats all there is? derp

[Chuk5]

The series is losing its identity.

[OcularVision]

There are plenty of other genres of games. It's just that most of them aren't high-profile games that make a lot of money.

[RagTagBnd445]

One of the reasons that gaming is so populear theese days are multiplayer shooters, there are a lot of gamers out there who does only play shooters.

[Tanir]

its true, alot of people play shooters only, and its sad.

and the other games dont sell aswell because of the hype of games like cod.

as normal gamers i think we want more variety. this gen it just feels like im fforced to buy shooters or nothing

[Mr Tretton]

"this gen it just feels like im fforced to buy shooters or nothing"

That's your fault, and only yours.

[damnyouretall]

online shooters are kind of a rush so its easy to get addicted. they get me emotional to be honest. pissed off, nervous, excitment, satisfaction, you name it :)

[cyclonus007]

As soon as a game outsells Call of Duty, that will be the next genre that every game company tries to imitate next.

God help us all if Just Dance 3 is that game...

[gamingdroid]

There are other games, most of them don't sell nearly as well as shooters. If there is lack of alternatives, you would think that the few alternatives would be more popular. You know, based on supply and demand.

Maybe it isn't the demographics, but the games themselves....

[MysticStrummer]

That's ridiculous. There are other games. If you ignore them, that's on you.

[SignifiedSix]

Want puzzle games, platformers? Download them from The marketplace, or psn store. whatever you have. problem solved...

[cochise313]

I'm sure battlefield will be amazing, but after playing the beta I've realized how I'm a lil burnt out on military shooters. I'll get this amd mw3 at a later date.

[Chuk5]

Dude, I'm with you.

*finally get's to use RHCP reference*

[zeksta]

Oh yay, another flamebait article, joy to the world.. -_-

[Philoctetes]

It wouldn't matter to me if this game didn't even have a SP campaign. I buy games like this for multiplayer, not single player.

Of course the beta also turned me off on the multiplayer, but that's a different topic.

[venom06]

TO SHOW YOU HOW FREAKIN STUPID THIS ARTICLE IS... "What it’s attempting to do, it does well. Extremely well. The issue is that we’ve seen it all before, albeit perhaps not as stylishly presented. My worry is that COD fans will love it"......

And that's just a part of how fuckin STUPID this article.. so they liked it, the past is super fast paced, but since CoD campaign is super fast paced, you have to write this BULLSHIT negativ article..... GTFO....

[Typical-Guy]

It's not gonna flop, it just won't shake CoD!
We all know that. Judging by the beta it's still Bad Company disguised as BF3.

[rattletop]

no probs even if it is so. a cod with better graphics and huge ass maps, jets, and choppers. i like.

[Darkspade]

Battlefield 3 blow COD out of the water in Graphics... I seen and played both.. Story is by a troll

[MGRogue2017]

"Turns out that Battlefield 3's SP campaign is a lot like Call of Duty's SP campaign"

Fixed.

Battlefield has *ALWAYS* been about it's massive multiplayer. The SP campaign is just a bonus, enjoy it while it lasts (6-7 hours)

[byeGollum]

What I played (BETA) was nothing like Call of Duty...

edit: if they are talkin' bout single player .. then I don't see why thats a bad thin' if they are alike COD campaigns are fun to play compared to badcompany 1 campaign which was boring

[detroitmademe]

who cares if the SP is like COD's,didnt the SP become a non-factor when it was announced that it was only 7hrs?Im sure most people will try singleplayer, but MP is where its at.

[RyuCloudStrife]

Of course.

CoD is the big man on campus!!!

[eak3]

I completely enjoy the MW single player story. Ill pick up MW3 at some point just to finish off the story of Capt Price and Soap

[0neShot]

All FPS games are trying to copy COD. And this includes battlefield 3, cry me a river BF fanboys.

[yuval152]

The Beta was also alot like COD,really hope it won't be like that on the full game.

[OcularVision]

Yeah. I was disappointed by the lack of vehicles and large-scale destructible environments like BC2.

[Biggest]

The funny part to me is that some people are disappointed in not having them in the beta, while others are flat out ignoring the fact that they ARE in the final game. If "not indicative of the final game" ever applied, it sure as hell applies for the BF3 beta.

[Norrix94]

Nooooooo!! Really??

[JBSleek]

The only reason people hate on CoD is because it is mainstream. They want to go for the underdog(BF3).

[MysticStrummer]

I hate on CoD because it's mindless, not because it's mainstream, but I do think it's sad that CoD is mainstream simply because it's so mindless.

[GroundsKeeperJimbo]

Pulled from the article: "The sniper attack on your precarious rooftop position is particularly dramatic - the boom of the enemy rifle, the slow breakdown of cover and the barely managed fear of your squad creating an atmosphere akin to most memorable moments of Full Metal Jacket or Enemy at the Gates."

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh these moments don't happen in CoD campaigns; and sometimes happen in BF multiplayer. Just saying because they're are big set pieces that it doesn't make it a CoD rip-off.

Regardless I'll reserve judgement until I can get my hands on BOTH games.

[Rettom]

HAHAHA I'll waste a bubble for this, I love your picture :P

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

I would say MW1's sniper mission was ideally a similar thing. I was kinda hoping BF3 would be more like an amazing version of BF2BC, not similar to CoD, this is somewhat disappointing. And from what I played of the beta as well, it feels and plays pretty similar to CoD multiplayer. That's just my perspective though.

[e-p-ayeaH]

Battlefield is not like Call of Duty for 3 main reasons:

- Its tactical based gameplay is key for sucess.
- Large scale maps some w/vehicles (earth,sea and air probably).
- You need to have pacience and sharp eyes.

[Bobbytheblobby]

have people even read the article itself? it doesn't talk about multiplayer at all, it's only single player.

the whole set-piece after set-piece does sound like COD.

[0neShot]

Don't forget why BF3 added team deathmatch as one of the multiplayer game modes, and that is to follow his greatness - king COD, fast paced infantry only action.

[cyclonus007]

Doesn't "set-piece after set-piece" describe every military first-person shooter ever made?

A genre that was not invented by Call of Duty, though Activision would like you to believe otherwise.

[Hufandpuf]

He didn't say anything bad about the sp. And I think the only people that are going to hate this are people that like single player freedom and those that hate cod. Seriously, by the way people are acting, you'd think bad company 2 had the best SP campaign of all time.

[gcolley]

BFBC1 did it right but no one bought it. BFBC2 played like CoD and everyone bought it.

i won't be bothering with the linear SP. it just gets old fast after dealing with real players in multiplayer.

[Ninjamonkey82]

The single is is just tac on tbh dont matter much to me BF has always been about the mp and thats all im interested in ill not even play the single player tbh. Im a vet on every BF game released and played them all hard. Only thing i have not enjoyed in the beta so far is the snipers.they dont feel right tbh even on cas border.

[Optical_Matrix]

The campaign seemed nothing like Call of Duty from what I've seen and played. Call of Duty is more like a Michael Bay action flick where 3 or so Spec Op's guys go around taking out armies of enemy forces. BF3 seems to me, more like a war story similar to Saving Private Ryan or Hurt Locker. It just gives me that vibe.

When I played the first half of Operation Guillotine at Eurogamer Expo, it felt like there was a war going on, rather than it being some kind of Hollywood action film.

[GhettoBlasStarr]

Battlefield is alot like COD, Really?? Because in BF I get killed for doing stupid shit, in COD I get killed by stupid shit.

[eak3]

nothing more fun than starting a map in MW2 and getting raped by noob toobs before you even know what direction your facing ... /sarcasm

[blackhammer]

I do care for the campaign. They really should have put their souls into it just as much as they would put it into the multiplayer. If I were to blame anyone, I'd likely blame their writers, that is, if the campaign has a very unoriginal storyline (and REMEMBER, even though the campaign is going back in time through a soldier's interrogation, the game BLACK did it years before Black Ops did).

I hope it's good enough to play, but I really hope for mod support. Still on the fence about whether or not to cancel the pre-order.

[cyclonus007]

BLACK was awesome. I think one of the reasons why was there was no multiplayer.

Story is more important to me than multiplayer honestly. One of the reasons is there are so many games with a multiplayer component that no one could spend weeks mastering all of them. There aren't enough hours in the day.

[MaverickStar7]

Sounds to me like there is lot of Medal of Honor influence in this game. I know DICE only did the multiplayer of MOH but some of the feel is there. I think constantly trying to compare and create a battle with COD is a waste. If you want to generalize , then yes these games are similar. But in reality they are two different games. you just have to be in depth about how you discuss things. I'm looking forward to both.

[gcolley]

EA orders. less freedom, more scripting. they justify it by saying it is more interesting or some BS like that. both games (cod and BF) will play the same campaign wise, and both will be a yawn fest. i have played too many linear FPS to be bothered anymore. walk here shoot this. how about i tell you where i want to go. if i want to come in the back way then i should be allowed. if i want to go up to the first floor of any building to get a better look, i should be able to.

[MaverickStar7]

To be honest I don't play FPS games for the campaign. I'm a multiplayer person, so really I play the campaign just to get the story and out of a sense of obligation because I paid for it and its there. I would like to campaigns add a bit more variety. But I don't want 20 hour story on a game thats multiplayer focused. If they pull assets away from multiplayer to make a campaign, then multi could suffer. And thats where their bread is buttered. I think the Bad Company 1 campaign was a step in the right direction. Games like Dues Ex, Batman, Assassins Creed, and Fallout is where I would go for longer and more varied campaigns. Halo, COD, Battlefield, and Gears....give me shorter, direct stories and get out of my way so I can get with the multiplayer.

[Ve_Chuy]

Yea it is alot like COD in Graphics, Vehicles, Scale, Sound, Teamplay. pfff, Cod fanboys dont know what to do cause their game sucks.

[narutogameking]

B-b-but I thought BF3 was supposed to save us from Call of Duty? B-b-but waaaaaaaaaah! waaaaaah!

[SITH]

The fact that call of duty pumps out a carbon copy every year with a different story is what will save us from call of duty.

[hiredhelp]

B B B but why would you want to be saved from cod.?
BF3 Isnt there to save you from cod. If call of duty had half of what battlefield 1-2 or bc series had. Maybe be better game but its not.

Instead the mp contains non drivable land sea and air veachles.
Every map are too close combat to even really play the game using skill.
bf gave you upgrades not cheap perks .
Dice invested money to buy a engine and have always had servers.

Every game weather its cod bf3,socom all gonna have camper's. Only bf3. Has a way to help others spot them.

Call of duty will always be what it is Batttlefield is no call of duty.
But if you worried soo much watch out for Homefront 2 by crytek they stated its gonna be call of duty.

Waaaaaaah?

[KendrickGLS]

Bring on some more Medal of Honor baby! Righteous!

[artdafoo]

MOH Campaign had better graphics and a more down to earth story than MW2 and Wack Ops.

[cedaridge]

do anyone know if those screen shots from console or pc? whatever the graphics and detail is AMAZING! psn: cedaridge

[AO1JMM]

Nobody plays a Battlefield game for the SP.

[KendrickGLS]

But I mainly play Battlefield for the single-player! Righteous!

[Hozi]

Regardless of what the author thinks, we still get Tanks, Jest, Jeeps, etc...in battlefield. We get more Level of Destruction.

[SITH]

The mission when you ride on rails in the back seat of a two seat super hornet (a trainer or electronics warfare hornet) and shoot down other aircraft is admittedly gay. But 2 hours to sum up a game of a series which focus has always been multiplayer and claim it is trying to be call of duty is a hasty generalization. Campaign is a bonus as far as I am concerned.

[Kahvipannu]

Reading the comments, not many actually readed the article, I'll sum it up; BF seems to have similar SINGLEPLAYER campaign, it's scripted tuberun with lots of insane action going on, similar to CoD one.

Everything is superbly executed tought, and he made this assumption based of 2 first hours of game, and no mention of the co-op campaign.

Personally, I say it again, BF doesn't even need singleplayer, it haven't in the past, why now? That time could have been used making more content in multiplayer for example. But you "need" it to sell "more full package" to please consumers.. Tutorial, yeah, but gamers shouldn't be that lazy that they can't figure few things out by themselves.. bah, multiplayer is all BF needs.

[GrumpyVeteran]

Just want to say that I'm highly disappointed that we won't be able to fly the jet itself: From the atmosphere that they created on that aircraft carrier, it would be amazing to be able to fly it in that scenario.

I'll fly jets in MP anyway, but still - flying it in that atmosphere would be nice.

[0neShot]

With all the BF fanboys crying about MW3 the same as any previous COD, guess what - BF3 is a prequel to Modern Warfare 1.

[Kahvipannu]

Your talking about the Battlefield: Modern Warfare? That doesn't sound right, that game came out ages ago.. Oh you mean CoD: Modern Warfare that came after it, but it still doesn't sound right...

[Bob570]

Turn out that Battlefield 3 sucks. On both PC and console.

[annus]

I don't think anyone has been complaining about it on PC after they have patched most of the beta problems and released Caspian Border for all PC players to play.

[Rettom]

Have you played on PC?

[Bob570]

Um, that's why I included PC in my statement.

I am however going to give it another chance since Caspian Border is available to play on PC.

[artdafoo]

Yea, a COD running on a NEW game engine, more toned down SP instead some outlandish Hollywood movie. You're a Marine in the middle east taking out terrorists and their ilk as appose to There's a crazy Russian Madman who's getting ready to destroy avery major city on Earth and only you and a British guy can stop him !

[Snowii]

lol what irony

[Nunchez]

It's like what the first two hours of the game and besides I like set pieces they're fun! And COD didn't invent set pieces but DICE shouldn't have too many then it'll actually become like COD. The battlefield series were anyways mainly known for MP.

[leahcim]

if this is true

there is no reason to play MOW3 on 30fps

:(