The game features maps set in Paris, Tehran (as well as other locations in Iran), Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, New York City, Wake Island, Oman, Kuwait City, and other parts of the Persian Gulf. To accommodate the lower player count on consoles, the ground area is limited for Xbox 360 and PS3, though fly space remains the same. It reintroduces several elements absent from the Bad Company games, including fighter jets, the prone position and 64-player battles on PC.
The game's sequel, Battlefield 4, was released in 2013.īattlefield 3 features the combined arms battles across single-player, co-operative and multiplayer modes. The game sold 5 million copies in its first week of release, and received positive reviews from most game reviewers. The campaign takes place in various locations and follows the stories of two characters, Henry Blackburn and Dimitri Mayakovsky. Marine, an F/A-18F Super Hornet weapon systems officer, an M1A2 Abrams tank operator, and a Spetsnaz GRU operative. In Battlefield 3's campaign, players take on the personas of several military roles: a U.S. The game was released in North America on 25 October 2011 and in Europe on 28 October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
It is a direct sequel to 2005's Battlefield 2, and the eleventh installment in the Battlefield franchise. Battlefield 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts.
