Battlefield 3

Mock Battlefield 3 analysis

For the past year it seemed like I was locked in a tower waiting for my shooter to show up. Finally on October 25th, my shooter arrived. Quickly, I realized this was a different tale. I wasn’t the princess, I was the masked man in black arguing with my shooter atop a hill. Soon after the install my princess had pushed me into a gorge and I was screaming “as you wish,” but my alas my princess has not realized my love and hasn’t jumped into the gorge after me.
“As you wish,” Battlefield.

Battlefield 3 will be a game of the year selection, but not right now. Launch period has always been tricky for the Battlefield series. Battlefield 2 would crash to desktop and also had networking issues. Battlefield 2142 was generally just a buggy game that took a month to get a patch. Bad Company 2 had server issues where the quick fix was uninstall & reinstall the game and then maybe it worked.
The tricky thing about Battlefield 3’s launch issues is that they have put themselves into a tough spot having released the game on 25th. EA and DICE only had two weeks to deliver patches so games can go underway before gamers give up and move onto the next best thing: Modern Warfare 3. Prior Battlefield titles didn’t carry the rival status as heavy as Battlefield 3. Bad Company 2 released in March of 2010, surrounded by Japanese gangsters, the god of war and baseball. Battlefield 2 was PC only and released in June of 2005, accompanied by an assortment of games released on various other platforms.
Activision’s Call of Duty series always seemed like an afterthought to other shooters; that is, until Modern Warfare came out. Now anything that had a shred of camouflage and an assault rifle gets compared to Modern Warfare. Battlefield 3 is running out of time and gamers are running out of patience. Diehard Battlefield fans will stay on board through the turmoil. But Frank Gibeau, president of EA Labels, has already moved onto the next big title release: