Battlefield 3 - campaign preview

played the first missions of Battlefield 3 is closely monitored campaign mode

[The overview below shows the details of the first three missions in campaign mode for Battlefield 3. Very little of the story unfolds, but aspects of these levels are discussed.]

I can not say how it starts. This is the great secret. EA DICE has revealed little about the story behind the campaign 3 battle mode - though of course we know there is an epidemic in the Middle East with an armed faction known as the shadow of the DPP seeking to gain control of the entire region. Basically, a kind of terrorist threat was made against the "free world" (whatever that means) and main character of Sgt Blackburn U. S. Navy is a bit flashy in the center of everything.

prelude After a mission that we are not allowed to write, the action begins with Blackburn being interrogated by two punches Funsters Homeland Security. They cry about their participation in a military secret and threaten with the fact that they know the truth. And finally, there is a flashback to that fateful event, this task becomes two, Sword circuit breaker. Ah, yes, you may already be thinking, we're back to Black Ops again, the narrative, the main character involved in anger against men ... Anonymous Although less this time, no one shouts "These figures shit!" Every five seconds.

Sword Break

, a level it has been far ahead in the trailers for the game. Located in a ruined city on the border between Iran and Iraq, a mission Sergeant Blackburn and his team looking for a group of Marines who disappeared while investigating a possible in the IDE meat market full of people.

is for the poor neighborhoods of the city razed to the first company, through the streets of trash and debris from the thickness Montes fellow platoon, Chaffin, Field and Mantovic. I played the 360 ??version, despite some small colorful pop-up, the images are complex and impressive. The sun is shining the light of the screen and out of the narrow street with intermittent beams in which the brilliance of dust and debris and turbulence. Sets miserable apartment building, its rooms filled with furniture spray the skeleton, and in an open street. "No civilian - I hate this shit," says one of his men at the right time, it sounds a sniper springs and falls Chaffin bridge.

Hence, there is a shooting spree as DPP fighters climb walls and in a nearby garage, leaving all with AK-47. Beaten in a building, two men with RPGs, pulling it down in our position. At one point, hiding behind a truck, as it is destroyed by a rocket, zoom in on the door with my head broken. It's visceral, exciting, slightly grainy graphics and guns giving authentic sounds dark rooms and a documentary feel. As the positions of RPG, groups of exploding concrete walls, leaving craters the size of dustbin lids.

later we are on a roof, trying to locate a sniper in another building. Our small squad ducks between the hedge positions, and in these times of security that is possible to watch the city, a mass of sand-colored blocks, with an outcrop of the shadow of skyscrapers in the distance. This is the kind of view that we have seen for years in the New Middle East - the familiarity, the level of intricate detail is uncanny.

• And then the climax. There is a battle ground of the multi-lane highway dotted with vehicles burned. At some point, you must follow a cable that goes from an improvised explosive device exploded under a truck installed without a detonator wet basement sits. There are a few quick QTE fight against the attacker, a complex struggle that requires only two input buttons, then we are on the street, a mount point RPG on a bridge on the road, then climb a mounted machine gun a flatbed truck. Sometimes there is confusion about where I'm supposed to go, I'm shooting, where they are, the AI ??soldiers hiding among the vehicles and our pop-brief on the roofs, there are few groups generated by idiots running down the street.

And, of course, as you saw in the trailers, it ends with a violent earthquake, which reduces a building a few meters from his position.

The next mission began hours later. It is night and soldiers patrol the PLR ??of the ravaged city in search of American troops. Blackburn is trapped alone in the rubble and must crawl through the rubble (at one point to a struggle with a QTE rat - seriously) to reach a safe point. Again, the detail is impressive, trash swirls in the air, cars can be seen on the edge divided into eight lanes of the road. Blackburn face what appears to be an abandoned church, where three guards chatting idly. The closest thing that you have an assault rifle. It is time to take it.