Originally published on Ready Up on 12th November 2011.
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Last month, Dunk and I got our eager mitts on Battlefield 3 for the first time. You’ve read our initial thoughts: now’s the time for our verdict.
Battlefield 3’s story mode starts off promisingly enough. Through some excellently rendered cutscenes, you’re introduced to Sergeant Blackburn, a soldier being interrogated by the CIA regarding his claim that the city of New York is in grave danger. The action is fitted around these scenes, flashing back to important events in the story from the point of view of several characters, including Blackburn himself.
The first mission sees you fighting the Peoples’ Liberation and Resistance, an Iranian insurgent group bent on pushing American forces out of the country. What follows is your standard storyline of making your way into the city with your squad and defending it to the end. It’s good enough…
And then a building falls on you.
Michael Slevin 