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Battlefield 3
Fight on foot and in military vehicles in DICE's modern-war shooter, with a story campaign and the large team battles that shaped its original release.
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Battlefield 3 is a first-person military shooter: you see the fighting through a soldier's eyes rather than watching from above. Its original release included a story campaign, separate cooperative missions and online team battles. The gallery shows the range of spaces and roles, from narrow city streets and a subway escalator to a fighter jet above open countryside.
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Infantry weapons are only part of the game. Vehicles include tanks, helicopters and jets, while destructible parts of the environment can change cover and routes. The Frostbite 2 engine supports the large battlefields and damaged buildings. Different maps create different problems: a tight passage limits movement in a way that an open vehicle route does not. These are features of the original game, not a promise that every old platform still has working online modes.
DICE developed Battlefield 3 and Electronic Arts published it. The first North American release was October 25, 2011 for Windows PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. EA ended online services for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on November 7, 2024; those console versions should not be chosen for online play today. The official cover shown here is Premium Edition artwork from the publisher's PC store listing, not a claimed original 2011 retail box. The six gallery images are from EA's base-game page.
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