De komst van Battlefield 3 is een feit, dus nu zijn weer enorm nieuwsgierig hoe deze game eruit komt te zien. Natuurlijk willen we ook veel details weten van de nieuwe FPS van DICE en EA en vandaag hebben we geluk. We hebben zoveel details van de game, dus zet je maar schrap.

Battlefield 3 zal een compleet origineel verhaal krijgen wat helemaal niets te maken heeft met Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Je zult door de straten van Parijs, Teheran, New York, Sulaymaniyah en het Iraakse Kurdistan lopen. Tevens zal de game een co-op modus hebben, dus samen met een vriend of vriendin de game spelen is ook een optie.

Producer Patrick Bach verteld in de nieuwste editie van het magazine GameInformer dat Battlefield 3 al een paar jaar in ontwikkeling is, maar dat ze speciaal hebben gewacht op de juiste technologie. Met de komst van de Frostbite 2 engine denken ze dat ze met deze engine topkwaliteit kunnen afleveren.

Verder zegt hij dat je jouw personage in de multiplayer modus veel kan ‘customizen’ op een originele en juiste manier. Verwacht geen rare dingen, maar juist veel opties die passen bij jouw personage of team. Ze willen het juist professioneel en goed uit laten zien, precies zoals in het echt.

“The more variation you have [in the characters], the less you can have in the rest of the world,” producer Patrick Bach told the mag. I think it also has to do with the way you play more professionally. You don’t want people to look completely different. It’s team A versus team B. It’s always a challenge – how do you personalise a uniform? Giving the pink rabbit hat to someone would make it fun, but if you’re running around and you don’t know what you’re shooting at, you don’t take the professional gaming seriously in my book.”

There’s a challenge between personalising and keeping it uniform. We will do more in that area, making sure that you can get your character to be more personalised both in a visual way and more specifically in the way you gear up. We did a good job I would argue with Bad Company 2 with specialisations, different scopes and different weapons – you can kind of find your way of playing the game, which broadens the game for more people.”

Verdere details van de game zijn bijvoorbeeld dat je met Battlefield 3 voor op de gameconsoles tot  24 spelers online kan gamen, veel meer unlocks zal hebben dan BF:BC2 en er zal een kill-cam zijn die je aan- en uit kan zetten. Hieronder de volledige lijst met details en let op: er staat een spoiler tussen van de singeplayer modus in Battlefield 3.

  • Aiming for CY Q4 2011 release
  • Concept for BF3 has been in the works for years, waiting on proper tech to seamlessly come together
  • Frosbite 2.0 is the culmination of this tech, entirely re-written
  • Lighting sounds neat, one “probe” contains more lighting information than an entire BFBC2 level.
  • Level destruction is going to be “believable” but basically everything is destructible.
  • Character animations powered by ANT, what EA Sports uses.
  • AI characters and multiplayer characters have different animation sets
  • No more “gliding” animations that look off, animation realism is a focus
  • Captured their own war audios (bullets, tanks, helicopters, etc) at different distances to ensure realism
  • Better audio cues for certain actions, more easily able to listen for threats
  • Plan on better, more immediate post release content
  • More unlocks than BFBC2
  • Dice trying to find a good balance between customization of your character and not having “pink rabbit hat(s)”
  • 4 classes
  • Will talk about squads “later”
  • Looking into a theater mode but can’t talk about it
  • Will have co-op
  • There will be a kill-cam but it can be turned off
  • BF3’s team is almost twice as big as the team for BFBC2
  • They want the pacing of the single player mode to be balanced, with highs and lows. Makes the comparison to a song vs a guitar solo.
  • Part of the single player mode takes place in Sulaymaniyah – Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • “Fuck” will be used often, so M rated for sure
  • There will be an earthquake in a level. The destruction sounds very impressive. 7 story building collapses, looks very well done
  • Significant narrative that goes with the SP mode
  • More than one setting, you’re not in the middle east for the whole game
  • PC version is lead version
  • Why 64 players for PC only? No complains from the console crowd.
  • No mod tools at release. Maybe none down the line either. Frosbite 2.0 is complex and mods tools would have to be dumbed down, so does Dice really want to put their time to that or would it be better spent elsewhere?
  • Original story, not based on Bad Company at all.