News - Battlefield 3 to lock horns with Modern Warfare 3 in end of year battle

[Spud1]

This could either be a massive commercial failure for the Battlefield series, or they will stand up well on their own, since hopefully they won't be "up against" COD.

It's all down to which game they decide to make and release...will they make it Battlefield 3? Or will they continue to rip out all the features and feel of the Battlefield series, and release "Battlefield 3: Bad Company". If the latter then they may as well give up now..I won't be buying it and nor will anyone else who's been looking forward to it. Bad enough that commander mode has been removed, using the Frostbite engine is risky..but we'll have to wait and see when the beta is out later this year.

So in short, if it's true battlefield, it will sell bucketloads on the PC and will definitely top the charts there. If they release BC3 instead (with the BF name) then it will be a flop.

[gtech]

So in short, if it's true battlefield, it will sell bucketloads on the PC and will definitely top the charts there. If they release BC3 instead (with the BF name) then it will be a flop.

It wont be a flop,

I was a big BF vietnam, BF2, 2142 player with over 2000 hours clocked up between them, since then I've got married and had 3 kids, I cant afford to upgrade my pc to play BF3 and that's why I mainly play the console these days, BFBC2 with me mates has been shedloads of fun and so will BF3,
I will be getting it on the ps3 and will be playing with me mates, There are a handful of friends who own top notch pc's but I just cant afford an upgrade.

So for the likes of me, BF3 on the console is going to work and work very well, any improvment on BFBC2 will be great as I love that game.

I cant see myself playing a game like BF2 on the console, 128 players with jets.. I'm content with that, It would be nice to have BF3 just like BF2 in scale (pc version) but I wouldnt ever get to enjoy those fruits so I'm happy with 24 player BFBC2 and I'll be happy with 24 player BF3.

As for COD I stopped playing once I got to 70 on MW2.. The only cod action I see is nazi zombies when I round a friends house and thats on WAW lol.

[crossy]

I cant afford to upgrade my pc to play BF3 and that's why I mainly play the console these days, BFBC2 with me mates has been shedloads of fun and so will BF3, I will be getting it on the ps3 and will be playing with me mates, There are a handful of friends who own top notch pc's but I just cant afford an upgrade. So for the likes of me, BF3 on the console is going to work and work very well, any improvment on BFBC2 will be great as I love that game.

Yes, same here - my poor ole single core Athlon just wasn't up to the job, so I thought "sod it" and went console gamer instead. Okay, now I've got a hex-core rig maybe it's a good time to head back to PC instead.

As for COD I stopped playing once I got to 70 on MW2.. The only cod action I see is nazi zombies when I round a friends house and thats on WAW lol.

Funny you should say that - because W@W is another Treyarch production - maybe they aren't as "lame" as some of the CoD-crew keep saying?

I'm guessing your playing BO on Xbox huh? BO is horrible on PS3, obviously because its a lousy port. For most PS3 users, MW2 vs BO, MW2 wins by a land slide. As for SP gameplay, both of them aren't good for me. I've never been a fan of SP modes where all you do is follow something the whole time. I love to free roam and do my own thing.

Yep, sorry - I'm on Xbox
I'm going to disagree a bit here - BO isn't a sandbox game, but neither is it CoD3 "running on rails" either. That said, I'm going to agree with gtech - BC2 probably wasn't sandbox either, but it's SP was more free roaming than BO or MW2.

I wouldn't worry about the SP modes though - the way things are going I can foresee that these'll disappear and we'll end up with "online MP only" games, perhaps with a dedicated "training" mode. This is great news for folks who are all clanned up, or those who like PvP deathmatch, but for folks like me who like that story-driven "you v's the machine" experience it'll be a sad day. :'(

[Spud1]

It wont be a flop,

I'm talking in terms of the PC here - clearly battlefield doesn't work on a console (and I wouldn't want to play it on one!)..and I say a flop as if they go down the bad company route, they are effectively making it compete with Call of Duty directly, but without the advantage of a reasonable single player mode.
The bad company series has nothing to do with the battlefield series, so in that sense it would be an instant flop as "battlefield 3" would never exist, it would be "Battlefield: bad company 3".

I and many many others would be very dissapointed, but it wouldn't be a big shock for EA to sell us out yet again!

[Terbinator]

Why is using the Frostbite engine risky? It's a mightily impressive game engine.

[Biscuit]

i would say using frostbite is a lot less risky than trying to develop a new engine, trying to get their older engine up to scratch or redesigning a different engine to fit the purpose. I think frostbite is excellent!

[Spud1]

Why is using the Frostbite engine risky? It's a mightily impressive game engine.

May lose the "feel" of the previous BF games and feel too much like BC. If it's not already clear by now thats my biggest worry about it..and the engine can have a huge impact on how a game plays/feels.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Yea BC feels like COD!

[Biscuit]

i dont knwo what version of BC you have been playing but mine feels nothing like COD :/