Thu, Jul 21, 2011 | 14:18 BST

New Battlefield 3 multiplayer trailer goes epic – watch

As if you needed any more Battlefield 3 in your boring life, EA’s released a short, minute-long video of the multiplayer.

No doubt this is to combat the still amazing-looking alpha footage that got out this morning.

It’s a BF3 winday. So therefore, it’s a win-win. We win. You win. We all win. Check it out below.

The DICE super-shooter launches in October for PS3, 360 and PC. The open beta starts in September.

74 comments

#1

DarkElfa
21/07/11, 2:23 pm

This will be a game purchase, no if’s, and’s or but’s.

#2

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:23 pm

Fucking wicked. I’m so there.

#3

StolenGlory
21/07/11, 2:28 pm

Indeed – me also!

#4

Johnny Cullen
21/07/11, 2:28 pm

I’m not going to say anything great on BF3 anymore because I’ve run out of stuff, so I’m just going to mumble sounds now.

#5

G1GAHURTZ
21/07/11, 2:28 pm

You’ll have to improve your aim first, Pat.

#6

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:31 pm

Pew pew.

#7

Yoshi
21/07/11, 2:32 pm

I think I just orgasmed brb… XD

#8

DSB
21/07/11, 2:33 pm

Geeze, those lighting effects are seriously off the chain.

#9

Yoshi
21/07/11, 2:35 pm

DICE just announced the menu theme to Battlefield 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY

#10

themadjock
21/07/11, 2:35 pm

Oh yeah, I’m curious as to what will happen though in a built up area if frostbite 2.0 allows for better physics and destruction. How will it stop you from blowing a hole in a patisserie window and going instead a non mapped building, will there just be the usual invisible just too high to jump over barrier…

I guess it needs some limits somewhere

#11

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:38 pm

What platform’s everyone doing? I’m sure I’ll play on console, but I’m pretty keen to play on PC this time.

#12

Yoshi
21/07/11, 2:39 pm

Ohhh Patrick… such a silly question, PC of course :) *pat pat*

#13

G1GAHURTZ
21/07/11, 2:39 pm

I think there’s one thing that this sort of reaction proves.

People who say that gaming visuals have reached a plateau and that they can’t improve that much need to think again.

Improving visuals still have a huge part to play in pushing the games industry forward.

#14

G1GAHURTZ
21/07/11, 2:40 pm

I’ll stick with 360 unless I get a new laptop, I think.

#15

viralshag
21/07/11, 2:41 pm

Glluuur! Fsstdid rrrr r bbblluusrrm dmds!

Yep, Like I thought, I can’t describe how excited I am.

#16

Johnny Cullen
21/07/11, 2:42 pm

There’s no real choice for me. Unless it’s picking which console I’m playing it on. In which case, I’m double-dipping.

#17

themadjock
21/07/11, 2:42 pm

@11 – On PS3 for friend list and sofa pwnage. Only have a alienware m11x laptop and no room to build a gaming rig. Do fancy it though as I’m sure this will look best on PC.

#18

Erthazus
21/07/11, 2:45 pm

Son Of The Mother Duck…

#19

Erthazus
21/07/11, 2:48 pm

I have an idea… lets rent VG247 server for the PC :D

#20

Maximum Payne
21/07/11, 2:48 pm

@18 You love RWJ ? :)

#21

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:49 pm

PC and 360 for me, prolly.

#22

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:49 pm

@19 – That could happen. I’m in discussions to sort out a free deal for servers now.

#23

Deacon
21/07/11, 2:54 pm

PS3 here. All by myself by the sound of it!

#24

Patrick Garratt
21/07/11, 2:55 pm

Playing TF2 on the VG247 server now, if anyone fancies it.

#25

Dr.Ghettoblaster
21/07/11, 3:08 pm

I’ll go with the better console version (if there is one).

#26

reask
21/07/11, 3:10 pm

Maybe PS3.

#27

Erthazus
21/07/11, 3:19 pm

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2011/07/41831efe6aeffacffbd41e97ffced19a/original.jpg

Mission overview.

Sexy area for tactics. After 50 level i will probably going to go for the clan.
each area have it’s own pretty places :3 mhmmm…

#28

monu-mental
21/07/11, 3:24 pm

PS3 for me, Kotaku’s saying the PS3 version is, at first glance, “every bit as impressive as the PC’s”.

PS3 all the day.

#29

Johnny Cullen
21/07/11, 3:24 pm

Oooooh *shivers*

#31

StolenGlory
21/07/11, 3:28 pm

I’ll be playing on 360 and PC since I have two, distinct and different circle of friends who either play online games exclusively on the 360 or exclusively on the PC.

Regardless of the platform, it’ll still be a whole lotta fun :)

#32

StolenGlory
21/07/11, 3:29 pm

@22

Vg247 server for BF3 you say?

I’M FUCKING THERE SON.

:)

#33

Noodlemanny
21/07/11, 3:35 pm

I’ll probably end up getting this on my 360 but then also my pc, just simply to oggle at it.
I’m thinking I might actually get a brand new desktop just so I can run this on a good setting. But then also my current pc is definitely feeling the strain and isn’t up for the new powerful games any more. Its starting to get that slow boot up and is looking a tiny bit sickly. All I need to do is find a spare £1000 quid just lying around… yeah, good luck with that…

#34

Erthazus
21/07/11, 3:35 pm

@30, aha, Kotaku just didn’t mentioned that PS3 version will have only 24 players per map and Pc version is up to 64 players per map

and maps on the PC will be bigger.

and if someone really is interested in Ps3 version you can look at the Fallon’s show and it’s not even close to PC version.

#35

Phoenixblight
21/07/11, 3:39 pm

@34

Better Graphics =/= Better Game.

#36

Erthazus
21/07/11, 3:45 pm

@35, exactly. thats why PC version will have solid 60 fps, 64 players and bigger maps. ;)

#37

Grimrita
21/07/11, 3:47 pm

@11 – only one place…the PC and still no ‘proper’ multiplayer stuff. its all snap shots. I want to make sure it didnt win the E3 award for the ‘worst hit boxes in an fps’ like BC 2 did

#38

StolenGlory
21/07/11, 3:50 pm

@34

Erth, at no point have I ever disagreed with the obvious fact that the PC version will be the best version; I was just saying that I have friends who aren’t PC gamers but own 360′s and want to play BF3 with me – hence why I am buying both the PC and 360 SKU’s.

#39

polygem
21/07/11, 3:59 pm

hyped. for good…

…and i will get the 360 version well knowing that the pc version will look much better (if you got the R I G). anyway. mp games are enjoyed much more on xbl. you gotta love the entertainer skills of the kids these days.

#40

Kuwabara
21/07/11, 4:10 pm

Style but no substance or the other way around. I dont know why but i didnt get excited one bit while watching this trailer. Not even a heartbeat extra for anticipation. Resistance 3 had more of an impact than this, which is a shame

#41

StolenGlory
21/07/11, 4:13 pm

“Style but no substance or the other way around.”

So… which is it?

#42

Yoshi
21/07/11, 4:16 pm

How on earth do you get a deal for free servers Pat XD

#43

DSB
21/07/11, 4:22 pm

@40 The guns look like they feel as sloppy as they did in BC2, but they still aren’t showing a lot of the real meat and bones, like suppression, tankbattles or the jets.

That said, I’ve never seen lighting like that in a game. Even though the muzzle flashes are greatly exagerated, the way they light up the wall next to them pretty much looks real.

#44

Dr.Ghettoblaster
21/07/11, 4:23 pm

Agree with #38.

Honestly, I can see myself buying two versions as well. Console version for playing with console friends, and PC version to drool over the visuals and justify my $400 graphics card…lol.

#45

Erthazus
21/07/11, 4:30 pm

Guns look sloppy? Lolwut? Thats exactly how was and will be in Battlefield games since Battlefield 1942 and it will stay that way because it is perfect. Who disagree just don’t like the game and it’s ok.

It’s not a CoD style.

Half-Life 2|Counter-Strike guns don’t have ironsights or weight, but shooting enemy is more satisfying then in any Call Of Duty game period.

Every game has it’s own feel, controls and guns weight and Battlefield nailed perfect system for it’s game and won’t change that in the near future.

also, it’s personal opinion but shooting with Pistol in BF games since first Bad Company is the best thing ever. (or Half-Life 2′s revolver :D .)

@Stolenglory, i’m sorry… my comment was not to you, but for monu-mental :D .
I’m sorry.

#46

Cozzy
21/07/11, 4:34 pm

^^^ I agree

#47

DSB
21/07/11, 4:39 pm

@45 The bigger guns did work somewhat that way in BF1942, but that certainly wasn’t the case in BF2.

It looks like you’re controlling a 60 year old pensioner who’s having a hard time handling the “massive” 5,56mm calibre.

Not even the AK’s in BF2 flew around that much.

#48

Len
21/07/11, 4:47 pm

Can someon/anyone confirm if you buy a copy of MOH Ltd Ed do you get access to this alpha or is it just definitive access to the ‘open’ beta in Sept?

My finger is hovering over the order button for a cheap copy of it… ;o)

p.s. PC all the way, it just has to be. :)

#49

YoungZer0
21/07/11, 5:33 pm

@45:

“Half-Life 2|Counter-Strike guns don’t have ironsights or weight, but shooting enemy is more satisfying then in any Call Of Duty game period.”

No, just no. The shooting in Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 is everything but satisfying. Period.

“Every game has it’s own feel, controls and guns weight and Battlefield nailed perfect system for it’s game and won’t change that in the near future.”

So you’ve played the game already or are you just spouting your usual I-know-everything-even-if-not-true-bullshit? Because it looks quite different from what i have played in Bad Company 2 and especially Battlefield 2.

Anyway.

Am i the only one who really doesn’t care about 64 Players? The best matches i ever had in Bad Company 2 were with 24 Players Max. The battles were more personal. The players usually much better. There was more tactic involved. Either they do it in a similar way MAG did or it’s gonna be complete and utter Chaos.

#50

Erthazus
21/07/11, 5:41 pm

@49, “No, just no. The shooting in Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 is everything but satisfying. Period.”

your opinion only and stick it to your ass.
If Counter-strike shooting was not satisfying it wouldn’t be a popular cybersport game.
So you are wrong, it depends on a taste in which for ME. You hear? For Me. I’m very satified with HF2|Cs shooting and Valve won’t change that because it is perfect.

“So you’ve played the game already or are you just spouting your usual I-know-everything-even-if-not-true-bullshit? Because it looks quite different from what i have played in Bad Company 2 and especially Battlefield 2.”

where i said that it looks like Battlefield:Bad company 2? Just where i said the sentence “it looks like Bad company 2″? :D

Go better improve your Russian skills. bwahaha

“Am i the only one who really doesn’t care about 64 Players?”

you are the only one with some console fanboys. 64 players was a huge Battlefield 2 feature and it’s going to be popular again.

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