For the past few years, Electronic Arts has desperately been attempting to gain a leading share of the first-person shooter market. Games like Medal of Honor and Crysis 2 have been selected as champions to take down Activision and its Call of Duty franchise, but they've never been considered serious threats.
Battlefield 3 represents EA's first real chance at carving out a competing niche. With its huge marketing budget, gorgeous visuals, and an army of fans ready to argue in its honor, this is a game with some serious muscle behind it.
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I still think he is just trolling us.
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Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One - 4/10
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Jim Sterling's either a bit too opinionated or a plain out troll.
@Eldorado and you can't deny that Killzone 3 wasn't on par of its predecessor(in other words it sucked). It only had good console visuals - that's all!
I refuse to read BF3 reviews as well. Too much hype and controversy surrounding the game for me to take any reviews seriously. I loved the Beta, so that's all I need to confirm my purchase (which will arrive at my door tomorrow, 2 days before the UK launch..so please).
I highly disagree with you and somewhat agree with Sterling.
And Jim Sterling is just the way he is but he gives his reasons why he gives those scores. He doesn't just say I didn't like it just cause, he gives his reasons. Whether they're as big of an issue as he makes it out to be is up to your tastes but he's his own man. And he uses the entire 10 point scale.
Having said that, the link to his review is dead.
I don't have a problem with playing another short, corridor single player FPS but something about this one feels off, it's too uninspired, too bland, too much "been there done that" feeling, it has big environments but if you try to move a few steps away from the path you'll get the dreaded "leaving playable area" countdown, most of the stuff you shoot at that's not enemies doesn't react (bottles or civilians), there's an endless mission on an air fighter that mostly plays itself, when big battle take place you can't see anything, you don't know where are the guys shooting at you, and you'll get kill long before you spot them
and the graphics on the 360 are nothing especial, far from Killzone 3 and Crysis 2
Lucky UC3 has successfully evaded him LOL.
Jim Sterling gave an accurate review of a game and make valid points, so please stfu ,people have diferent opinions you troll.
1. take a joke.
2. get a life.
There are times I totally disagree with Jim Sterling, (like when he claimed LBP2 lacked re-playability) but Jim hit the nail on the head and drove it in on one swing on this one. Too many things in BF3 have been forgiven to fandom.
Hahahahaha..that was a good one.
"run for a very long time across a huge open space, then bump into a tank and die."
"Tanks are sluggish and alienate one from the atmosphere of the match, while airborne transport is a nightmare to use"
run? why not ride an ATV, another vehicle or spawn on a squadmate? also most of the time tanks are spottable from a fairly distant... learn to sneak around, flank etc..
"Tanks are sluggish and alienate one from the atmosphere of the match, while airborne transport is a nightmare to use"
this is a balance and even a bit of realism thing... air vehicles would be harder to take down if they were easy to pilot..
"snipers"
this isnt call of duty where youre on the undercover of precious walls into safeness.. avoid running like a headless chicken on open field
***avoid running like a headless chicken on open field***
LOL... Open field is all there was, unless you are planning to camp as well!
As for Sterling, I stopped trusting his reviews once he gave Assassins Creed 2 a 4.5; I don't even enjoy the Assassins Creed games, but I'll admit they deserve scores much Higher than a 4.5. Even if the score was based on the "full scale", a 4.5 is still below average.
I would be on the side to agree with it, except that he doesn't admit to some of his bias, when you see him giving Return to Dreamland a perfect 10, bad mouth and made a false generalization of the PC crowd because of a closed mind to piracy(he basically stated it's all the PC Community's fault for piracy), and among other things. From the way he does things, his word just doesn't seem to hold much weight anymore given with how he tends to speak without too much thought.
He can write some long pieces, but 1/2 the time you just question him.
Also just for reference, he gave Payday a 7.5 also, and after having both, BF3 has a much higher quality standard.
One person's opinion does not equal the true quality of a game.
BF3 is still an superior game to MW3. Why?
- Better Graphics
- Next Gen Engine
- Multiplayer that requires team play and less lone wolf
- 64 Players
- The Use of Vehicles which changes the landscape of the battlefield
- Destruction which changes the landscape of the battlefield
That's the problem. It's so much like BC2 that it feels underwhelming.
I like that Jim didn't give them a pass for poor SP and coop. If the game is MP only (basically) make it that way. It also doesn't help that the console versions are halfassed compared to the PC version. Not saying 64 people could fit on consoles, but the graphical glitches on consoles isn't making it any more appealing to play. I wouldn't give it a 7.5 but a 9+/10 it is not.
Why should COD and BF get away with whack-a-mole gameplay, that only works when people are blown away by the graphics.
Also, Dtoiders are Jim's slaves. They will agree to ANYTHING he says. I like journalists that are bold, but jim is just random.
Thought the review was spot on, it did what every other review didnt have the balls to do and cite how crap and short lived the single player is and score it accordingly.
Its basically a graphics showcase, theres nothing engaging about it.
Id give it 7/10 for the good multiplayer but awful campaign and ONLY 6 co-op missions.
And about the base campaign structure, POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT!
your in a room being interogated reliving past battles that you have fought, sound familiar?
He is a moron and should be removed from this industry.
MIXELON
I think the points system should be removed completely. Main because of people like jim who abuse it. He uses the points system as a way of bringing attention to his review inorder to get more hits.
I have no problem with any of his reviews but its the fact the reviews dont match the scores and the scores are so clearly used to get hits.
Same thing is happening to uncharted 3, most reviews are rating it less than U2 but saying U3 is equally good if not better. The quality ceiling and peoples expectations are just increasing.
Read his piracy rant and you'll think otherwise.
He thinks that devs should no longer make ANY games on that platform, because of a few people pirating games.
Yet made no references to people doing the same on consoles, but blamed that on PC community also.
He tried pulling it off as if everyone that games on PC pirates and buys nothing, even though you'll see some devs talk about a huge profit from selling on places like Steam.
i know more people who pirate games on console than do pc.
So much hype for the HD texture pack and frosbite 2.0 and this is what we get. In this case, BF3 will follow BF2, just another shooter dropping by, waving to COD sitting on the FPS throne and then going away into the realms of oblivion.
Console graphics aren't good enough for crap AI, shallow story all wrapped up in 6 hrs and more importantly, I'm tired of pray-and-spray, first to spot gets the kill military shooters MP. I prefer to face my opponent mano-e-mano like in Gears and Reach and see who is more skilled.
And I had my popcorn and everything...
Not that I agree with him, but opinion is an opinion.
I'm thoroughly enjoying my new copy of Battlefield 3 as I type this.
I mean, you can argue your own opinion all you like, but at no point did I think a 7.5 was wrong for this article.
What are the bugs you encounter?
I love Battlelog because you have a lot more connectivity with friends, the community, and with Dice.
Compared to PC, yes console version is a little worse.
Compared to other console titles, it fits perfectly between the other big budget titles like Uncharted 3.
Also i have no idea what system he used as the review but let me tell you I'm enjoying the HELL outta the PC version.
if he thinks it's a 7.5 then that's his opinion. All i know is the servers are jam packed and BF3 PC just might be GOTY!
it's friggin amazing on Ultra! check it out!
I just hope they get some private matches up in here.Im not sure if you can setup custom servers with battlelog though.
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