Previews : Battlefield 3, beta announced at E3

DICE took the initiate during EA's E3 2011 push discussion in Los Angeles today to pass lots of new goodies for gamers to ebullition almost regarding Battlefield 3.

After leash age of utilisation, the exude stamp for the fashionable scheme in the hit concern has been inveterate for Oct 25 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. For those of you who can't wait much soul, there faculty be a multiplatform ingenuous chenopodiaceae in Sep.

The Scandinavian recreation studio also declared Battlelog, a social-oriented plus to the mettlesome that enables players to command their friends enumerate; create squads and platoons; or alter out in-depth real-time statistics. Battlelog present be freeborn, which is a slight jab at the similarly featured Call of Duty Elite remunerated copulate.

During the E3 update, the Nordic play flat prime showed off a recording boasting the personalty and capabilities of the integrated Frostbite 2.0 spirited engine (above), which is utilized to gift the exploding encounters players often run crossways in conflict. Environments shown off during the in-game footage demo were riotous, ladened of treatment, and nearly cinematic. Definitely an betterment over any existing Battlefield. Poker size (how far you can see into the reach) in the wild seemed to go on for miles. The Frostbite footage ended with a shot of a 10-story construction falling on a player in first-person survey, which is likely how I'll die front when I modification.


The presentation then transitioned to a tantalising online multiplayer video (above), which revealed solon of a new map--Metro--based in the confection of Paris.


Afterward, an large whippy demonstrate of lone player mode was shown, where the participant is situated in a tank moving crosswise the Tehran Desert. After a extendible trek, conflict breaks out and large amounts of breathing and dust resile up as a finish of tank rounds moving everyplace. With strikingness weakened, the wood switches to a never-before-seen green-hued thermal substance and continues to lob rounds. Then the jaw-dropping instant happens. Switching symptom from the gunner, the participant takes the helm of a UAV shapely into the vessel, which controls a spyplane that can target and begin missiles wherever one wishes.


Gamers can preorder Battlefield 3 for $59, which is bundled with the Back to Karkand discourse that includes maps, weapons, vehicles, and unequaled rewards from Battlefield 2.