By Jim Rossignol on June 6th, 2011 at 9:27 pm.
Fuck! Last night I started writing something about my hopes for Battlefield 3, and one of the points in it was “they better have huge tank battles across massive plains”, and that’s precisely what they’re showing now. I should have finished it up and I’d have looked like the prescient games genius that I am.
It looks seriously good: huge maps, incredible destruction. Vehicular incredibleness. Not sure about those tank interior bits, though. It’s all on PC, of course, and it looks miraculous. There’s also a brief multiplayer trailer over here, showing some of the stuff from Paris multiplayer maps. Big built up urban maps for multiplayer: also in my unfinished articles. I mean I basically make these games happen by imagining them. (*Imagines infinite Stalker*)
06/06/2011 at 21:32 Njordsk says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
07/06/2011 at 03:26 Commisar says:
seconded. dam this game looks GOOD along with Skyrim, its time to upgrade ye olde graphics card
06/06/2011 at 21:33 Greg Wild says:
Yeah, looks great. Really look forwards to this :P
06/06/2011 at 21:34 somini says:
I hope this game doesn’t tank…
06/06/2011 at 21:36 Rei Onryou says:
Don’t worry, it’s on track(s)
06/06/2011 at 21:36 lurkalisk says:
It’ll take alot to stop this TANK…
…Sorry, I’m not too clever.
06/06/2011 at 21:59 awickedone says:
That pun is great you should really get a Patton for it.
06/06/2011 at 22:11 Navagon says:
Infinite Stalker… you certainly know how to make Battlefield 3 pale by comparison, Jim.
Now just imagine Stalker 2 in that engine with the same kind of budget (actually spent on the game).
06/06/2011 at 23:18 commisaro says:
Wow, you really brought out the big guns for that pun. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a pun of that calibre.
06/06/2011 at 21:35 Iokanaan says:
yes, it is ridiculously good-looking.. or aren’t those extremely light-weight tanks?
06/06/2011 at 21:36 Iokanaan says:
(4:28ish)
06/06/2011 at 21:36 Teddy Leach says:
The amount of people on Facefuck and Twitter complaining that they wanted to see it on consoles was hilarious.
BF3 looks gorgeous and brilliant.
06/06/2011 at 21:41 lurkalisk says:
…And I just say, No, no you don’t.
06/06/2011 at 21:43 Teddy Leach says:
It’s sad because people really are that stupid. I was amazed and elated to see it being played on a PC.
06/06/2011 at 21:46 jon_hill987 says:
I’m surprised they showed any games bar exclusives on consoles, they looked rubbish and jerky and ugly.
06/06/2011 at 21:46 l1ddl3monkey says:
Imagine harder on the infinite STALKER. please.
06/06/2011 at 21:46 JimK. says:
Was it just me or did that airstrike totally miss the mark?
06/06/2011 at 21:47 Nick says:
added realism.
06/06/2011 at 21:58 pepper says:
Yup, that is what it looked like, although the mobile rocket artillery on the backside was missing, that was probably the one that decided direct fire on the incoming armour was a good idea.
06/06/2011 at 22:07 Scioptic says:
Wouldn’t added realism being that they hit your friendly tanks? :P
06/06/2011 at 21:51 frewster says:
Man, that tank must have had adamantium armor to survive that many hits. And I don’t think the demoer understood that MOVING helps to avoid getting shot. Still, the lighting was beautiful and I can’t wait. I get goose bumps every time I here the distorted audio at the end of the trailers.
06/06/2011 at 21:54 Jesse L says:
Edit in a pun about tanks, no one will know.
PS: playing games on consoles makes you ugly. That’s why all console players are as ugly as they are. Also, they should probably not be allowed to vote. Or reproduce.
07/06/2011 at 09:03 max pain says:
Agreed on all points.
Are they even human? Some estimate their intelligence in on par with dolphins.
07/06/2011 at 17:23 Mr.Nice says:
On behalf of dolphins, I am offend.
07/06/2011 at 22:53 GameOverMan says:
So long, and tanks for all the fish.
06/06/2011 at 21:52 Chris Evans says:
I was so impressed and pleased they played it on PC, that was the best way to show the game off. Loving some of the visual effects with the explosions during the tank battle.
06/06/2011 at 21:59 Kadayi says:
The wait for them to hit the action was strangely thrilling. Absurd scale.
06/06/2011 at 22:01 Chris Evans says:
The wait made it even more special, tension rising knowing something big was about to kick-off :D
06/06/2011 at 22:11 Kadayi says:
Agreed. Visual effects were impressive as hell.
06/06/2011 at 22:13 Rii says:
To be honest I could’ve done with a minute or two less of preliminary trundling along.
Still, it was very impressive. Difficult to see this as anything other than a Day 1 purchase.
06/06/2011 at 22:15 Silver says:
exactly!
Some complain why it was neccesary..
I think usual fps – spawn, shoot, die, spawn, shoot, killstream, die, spawn, die, spawn die, spawn shoot die etc is much more boring… and usual-casual.
like was mw3 demo – run, load, shoot, unexpected (scripted) event comes… etc..
I like that bf3 took risk showing it on PC, doing “boring” tank episode, I really liked it…
like said before – it was much more intense that fight didn’t start right over. I really love this kind of (bf3?) style.
Clean, yet intense; rich; mature.
/sorry fer some typos – destroying some alchoholic beverage atm :)
06/06/2011 at 23:57 Rii says:
@Silver
And if I were actually playing the game instead of watching someone else play the game I could probably get into the heavy metal ambience of it all. But I’m not. There’s a reason why trailers are cut the way they are.
06/06/2011 at 22:26 Redcoat-Mic says:
Misleading headline, the tank bit was single player. :\
07/06/2011 at 02:55 Betamax says:
and flattered to decieve a bit too I think. I was blown away at first, then realised that it all looked quite scripted really, and a tutorial to boot. Very pretty though, and if tank battles have that scope in multiplayer I am VERY excited.
06/06/2011 at 23:46 Cognitect says:
E3 2011: Tank Battle PC Gameplay
07/06/2011 at 00:22 westyfield says:
Thank you, I hadn’t been able to find the video anywhere – I missed the live stream.
Though about 2 mins after seeing your comment, EA posted a youtube link to the clip on twitter.
Here is is, in case you hate gametrailers or something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwOrl036_A
07/06/2011 at 00:16 noclip says:
This is looking more and more like it could actually unseat Call of Duty, or at the very least split the hot manshoot market in two. I don’t know about anyone else, but the MW3 demos underwhelmed me (it seemed like they were phoning it in, even the soundtrack was noticeably bland; and faking not faking the press conference demo was just insulting). This, on the other hand, is the only shooter in recent memory that takes me back to the intensity I haven’t felt since the MW2 cliffhanger demo, which is the only reason I play these kinds of games.
07/06/2011 at 00:34 Stevostin says:
I am very, very impressed, but I am the only one that feels it looks so much like *the real deal* that all the killing all of a sudden looks unhealthy and scary ? If they avoid the “patriotic” (quotes because not everyone doesn’t put the same thing behind that word) with the usual “democracy über alles” dressing, it may actually become a kind of “Saving Private Ryan” of video games : spectacular, but also very efficient at making you feel war just never can be a good option IRL.
07/06/2011 at 04:08 Erd says:
A game that makes you feel ill at ease playing it? Isn’t that a bad idea for a blockbuster title?
07/06/2011 at 12:45 The JG Man says:
The part where the tank operators who roll/fall out on fire was a bit of a hit to the stomach. Very unsettling, but very well done.
07/06/2011 at 01:11 Jimbo says:
They already revealed the tanky bit, so probably just as well you didn’t finish writing that something.
07/06/2011 at 03:45 Eightball says:
After playing copious amounts of Bad Company 2 recently, the trailer made me mad because the player didn’t mark the enemy tanks for everyone else.
07/06/2011 at 07:49 lupusamicus says:
Is it me or are they bringing this “realistic camera” effects to BF3? like in Kane & Lynch 2
07/06/2011 at 09:29 gwathdring says:
Hmm. On the one hand I don’t like some of the “realism” being inserted here. On the other hand, I love the animations, and the audio/visual design still has some style and flash to it that I don’t get out of Call of Duty screen shots. Regardless of how it stacks up against CoD or on it’s own legs, I won’t be buying this for a number of years. That’s my timeline before I get a decent gaming rig.
07/06/2011 at 17:22 Mr.Nice says:
reply fail
08/06/2011 at 12:41 Shadrach says:
These games look at the same. I must be getting old and grumpy.