This, of course, is balanced out by the sheer audio-visual bandwidth of the game: it pours out destruction in noise and visuals.
Which will it be? Get to the door ahead of your chums and stand around waiting to find out! It's not very good, and it happens over and over and over. Sometimes it's down you you to kick the door in, but most of the time the other NPCs who do it. Oh, doors, why are you always a problem for games? In this instance it's the fact that doors can't be breached until NPCs arrive. The more excruciating stuff comes with doors. Your soldier has such faith in his mission that he stops his own heart if it goes wrong. No getting shot, no attempt to justify the consequences of your mistake, just voluntary, obligatory death. There's even a bit where if you shoot enemies you are not meant to shoot, you just lay down in the street and die. Try to go where the baddies are coming from and "you are leaving the combat area". Kill the one single guy you are meant to kill, however, and the assailants stop coming, and you move on to the next part of the game. Early on, for example, it's possible to find a place where you can shoot enemies as they run into the combat arena. It suffers from many of the worst aspects of scripted games. Fail to listen and, no problem, waypoints are there to direct you, too.ĭespite all this support, Battlefield 3's campaign doesn't work too hard to sustain the incredibly pretty illusion it establishes. These NPCs offer a continuous angry and incredulous commentary on what is going on, allowing you to avoid having to worry to much about what's happening. As a rifle-carrying soldierman you blast your way through corridors, gullies, offices, ruins, ditches, riverbeds, more ruins, bank-vaults, with a couple of other guys alongside you. Most of the game, however, sees you fighting on foot.
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Yet for all that there are some serious frustrations, including the astounding rigidity of the scripting, the occasional flailing about in darkness, the purely checkpointed progress (no manual save) and the peculiar inclusion of some genuinely tedious point 'n' click shooting galleries, the worst of which was the one aboard a plane. There are some brilliant firefights, and some hair-raising (also like to typo "hare-razing" here) moments. When it works, it's an easy thrill.īut, like my accuracy with an AK, it's hit and miss. Battlefield's campaign does all this, and also throws in a couple of vehicular experiences, and even a stealth bit, to provide some variety. The challenge lies simply in using cover at the right time, and shooting the bobbing heads of the endless shootermen who stand in your way.
This is the formula: you play through a storyline of contemporary combat, involving a potential conflict between Russia and the US, from the perspective of a number of combatants. It's often thrilling, and often frustrating. "Cinematic" is the word that gets applied to this stuff, I suppose. As such there's almost nothing you haven't seen before, and the most exciting moments are often those in which you've pressed "E" to initiate an animation, and then you watch it play out. What is happening here is pure linear-shooter action designed, seemingly without any other consideration, to do what Modern Wafare is doing. The attempt to challenge Call Of Duty's ridiculous hegemony is now completely transparent. I'll get to that multiplayer stuff soon enough (although not until I have Europeans to play with), so for now let's have a bit of a think about Battlefield 3's single-player campaign.
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