Zero Punctuation: Battlefield 3 Review

After a brief respite, Shooter Season 2011 returns with Battlefield 3.

by by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

[Pikajew]

I liked the ending

[Vladplaya]

Who gives a fk about singleplayer in game that never been about singleplayer? Funny review, but other than that its pretty much waste of time.

[The_Nameless_One]

His point though was that EA have stated in the past the the SP is as important to them as the MP but it's clearly a PR lie just to save face. I will fully agree that no one buys a BF or COD game for the SP but why should DICE get a free pass on it? They went to the trouble of putting a SP in the game so why make it redundant?

Still, who ever bought this gamefor it's SP is probably in dire need of antipsychotics meds.

[deerain]

He liked single player then :D

[coolasj]

No multi-player review. Not that I care, I own the game and love it. But, still.

[AllroundGamer]

lol the invisible walls, there are lots of it in the game (in the MP too) and the jumping over obstacles is horribly flawed...

[ViperX2]

"horribly flawed" is a little over exaggerated.

[RememberReach]

Sums up my experience pretty well.

I'm surprised he didn't address not being able to see anything because of the lighting effects at night (namely, the headlights).

[Shackdaddy836]

Not surprised by his review. Yahtzee usually criticizes shooters and multiplayer-oriented games

[PirateThom]

Yes! I do remember repeating that bit several times because the game just decided I couldn't escape yet.

On the flip side though, for what it was, I thought the single player was fairly interesting, but you don't buy BF for single player, you buy it to play online, fly a jet, lose control, bail out and then parachute gracefully to earth for 3 minutes, only to be blown up by a tank.

[r21]

im looking forward to his review of U3 and see what his reactions are to the game :D

[zarro1]

was a lot like smoking was for me. Before I was able to actually get it, all I could think was “OH man as soon as I grow old enough…” but then I actually grew old enough and thought “…well shit…now http://zeropunctuation.net
I don’t really WANT it.” to which I came to an epiphany, that’s what they were going for from day one, to which I thought “You clever, cocky, bastards!”