War Tapes: The Sounds Of Battlefield 3

The award-winning team behind Battlefield: Bad Company 2's terrific sound design is back. Led by audio director Stefan Strandberg, DICE got up close and personal with the sounds of battle during a live military exercise. Their recordings and subsequent lessons learned could make Battlefield 3 the most realistic sounding war experience in gaming.

[xCaptainAmazing]

win

[Incipio]

What bothered me about DICE's sound in previous games is how "spacey" it sounded. I could be 15 feet away from a barrel that explodes and it sound like a muffled pop-boom. I've heard things explode relatively close to me and it's way more intense than that.

[jon1234]

that guy did say they exaggerated everything in bad company so that's way it sounds intense in that game, i think what he was trying to say here is that, they aren't going for that in BF3, so problem solved!

[Xfanboy]

I've heard things explode relatively close to me and it's way more intense than that."

fart?

[Incipio]

Xfanboy - yes. I have heard fireworks explode on the ground, closer to me with more of a resounding bang that a frag grenade does in BC1 or BC2. And farts.

jon1234 - I implied that they are changing it because of the past tense of the word "bother" that I used in the first sentence.

[ramtah]

i love how they work!

[GRiFTERx_]

Hope they take out the health needles and put in field medics instead. would add to the greatness sound eff.