BF3 begins by taking many of the best elements from the Bad Company series and tweaking them slightly to add new gameplay dimensions. There's a huge round of improvements from sound, to visuals, to level design, to in game options such as vehicles, weapons and abilities. There's no reason to run through the list of improvements here, but it is suffice to say that everything has been improved to the point where the console hardware definitely appears to be straining to keep up.
This is an easy multiplayer game to recommend. The classes, vehicles, maps, abilities and unlocks all come together here. There are so many ways to participate beyond being the best with a given weapon - players can revive, heal, replenish ammo, and spot for each other, or they can pilot vehicles and support or transport their teammates into combat. Special weapons talents like the mortar, sniper rifle or gadgets like remote respawn points or bomb diffusal bots can all aid in the effort. The game rewards teamwork and encourages players to work together but not overtly requiring it. Those that work together will simply find the game deeper and more varied than those that don't.
Add to this some well crafted maps (particularly the Karkland maps), the building destruction mechanic and the simple yet effective rulesets for games like conquest and rush. Put all those things together and setting the physics to play just a little south of realistic and somehow DICE manages to make it all work beautifully.
The final ingredient is only to play with a friend or two and the output becomes a regular payoff of what can only be called 'Battlefield Moments'. Anyone who plays this game for more than a few hours will begin to experience them - a Battlefield Moment is just when some sort of unscripted and truly insane moment spontaneously occurs. They are unique to each player and to each game but they occur again and again and act as hook to keep the player coming back.
Watching two planes clip wings in midair while rolling into battle on the back of a Humvee; smashing your APC through the wall of a enemy strong point; single handedly reviving and healing your squad while they hold out against the last tickets of a determined enemy onslaught are jaw dropping. The best way to describe it is to say that those favourite scenes from a movie or toy soldier game from when you were a kid which other games try to capture in scripted sequences happen here - totally unscripted and so much more thrilling because of it. It has to be experienced to be fully grasped.
Battlefield 3 multiplayer is highly recommended (particularly with friends and voice chat).
J
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