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A military FPS pairing a cinematic soldier campaign with class-based multiplayer across destructible maps, using guns and vehicles.
Released 11 Jun 2020
Fight on Destructible Maps
Fly Jets, Drive Tanks
Choose a Combat Class
Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action.
Developed by DICE · Published by Electronic Arts
Battlefield 3 is a military first-person shooter with a single-player campaign built around soldiers carrying out combat missions. Players fight on foot and take part in operations involving vehicles.
In multiplayer, teams battle across large maps in modes such as Conquest and Rush. Players can use weapons and gadgets, take control of vehicles including tanks, helicopters, and jets, and alter parts of the environment through destruction.
Players choose among four classes—Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon—with different specialties intended to complement one another. Battles award ranks, ribbons, medals, and unlockable equipment; the game also includes co-op missions.
Players who praise Battlefield 3 often point to its cinematic campaign missions and set pieces, as well as large multiplayer battles, maps, and gunplay. Vehicles, environmental destruction, and the sound and visual presentation also recur as highlights. Many reviews separately report difficulty launching the game through its EA app and Battlelog/browser setup, while some note that multiplayer servers can be sparse.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 34 |
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| Players | 1–64 |
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| Multiplayer | Battlefield 3 supports online multiplayer with large team-based PvP battles, server browsing via Battlelog, and expansion content that adds maps, weapons, vehicles, and game modes. The store metadata also indicates online co-op and co-op campaign support, and reviews repeatedly mention a separate co-op mode with missions for two players. Reviews also cite 64-player matches and active community-run/custom servers. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention Venice Unleashed as a community launcher/mod platform that enables custom servers, mods, and bot play. Bot support is described by players as coming through mods such as fun-bots rather than the base game. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 89/100 View on Metacritic |
