GC 2011: Battlefield 3 wins 'Best of Gamescom' award

Red Deer01 on 17 Aug '11 said:

Congrats DICE. Starting to wonder what the cover of the "GOTY" version of this game will look like (if it wins GOTY anywhere that is)

It's just going to be awards... and a little area where you can see the face of the generic Soilder on all other versions of the game

monty_79 on 17 Aug '11 said:

Totally fair, really. That 64 player BF3 teaser looked remarkable and made me wish I had a PC capable of playing it with 63 other people! Not too upset though as the 360 version will still kick arse.

Agree with Vita and golden abyss awards too.

TheLastDodo on 17 Aug '11 said:

Deservedly so, well for FPS's anyway.

Were any others shown? Bioshock? MW3?

gmcb007 on 17 Aug '11 said:

Deservedly so, well for FPS's anyway.

Were any others shown? Bioshock? MW3?

Bioshock was shown behind closed doors and MW3 Spec Ops was playable to the public.

deadstoned on 18 Aug '11 said:

Well done them

BenThomasFoster on 18 Aug '11 said:

urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This game will be more original and revolutionary as the recent invention of the hand-less soap dispenser.

djreplay on 18 Aug '11 said:

Battlefield 3 looks pretty and all but its not exactly setting my world on fire.

JD_Method on 18 Aug '11 said:

Best console game... FIFA...

SpandexArmstrong on 18 Aug '11 said:

This makes me sad as a gamer. You hear alot of ranting & raving over unoriginality in games, especially millitary fps.
Then a sequel to the same old s**t (dont try to deny it!) comes along with super graphics & every games journo across the globe begins declaring it the next best thing ever! The world is a sad & confusing place sometimes

RumbleThunder on 18 Aug '11 said:

This makes me sad as a gamer. You hear alot of ranting & raving over unoriginality in games, especially millitary fps.
Then a sequel to the same old s**t (dont try to deny it!) comes along with super graphics & every games journo across the globe begins declaring it the next best thing ever! The world is a sad & confusing place sometimes

Get the hell off your high horse. I like innovation as much as the next guy, doesn't mean I can't enjoy/appreciate what is turning out to be an incredibly well polished immersive experience. There's nothing worse than fools ranting about how everybody should only play Braid and other "out there" indie stuff that they deem "worthy."

Tell me, what releases DO you approve of? Muppet.

Imaduck on 18 Aug '11 said:

It's not that Spandex, you've kind of jumped the ship man. The thing is, BF3 is setting itself out to be a real landmark. 64 player MP (on PC), with those visuals? That level of customisation? That animation? Even BFBC2 although not strictly a BF game, showed a scale and quality of polish mix that was frankly a lot to see from a console, then they pull this from the bag?! It just looks like a real landmark. It's not just doubling and tripling past option levels, player counts and scale, it's doing it with such polish and shine that it stands out from the crowd.

This looks like it could well be a real game changer, a landmark, a leap forwards, a new benchmark, not just another military FPS. If we become unable to notice a real leap when we see it, what the f**k is the point in companies trying?

YouStoleMyKill on 18 Aug '11 said:

“This makes me sad as a gamer. You hear alot of ranting & raving over unoriginality in games, especially millitary fps.Then a sequel to the same old s**t (dont try to deny it!) comes along & every games journo across the globe begins declaring it the next best thing ever! The world is a sad & confusing place sometimes”
Iv been saying this about CoD for 3 years so i kno how u feel

wasted-again on 18 Aug '11 said:

The more I see of BF3, the more it reminds me of COD. And the more the COD haters fawn over it, the more I know they're full of sh!t.

Still, great looking game, I'll be first in line to pick mine up.

KMakawa on 18 Aug '11 said:

This makes me sad as a gamer. You hear alot of ranting & raving over unoriginality in games, especially millitary fps.
Then a sequel to the same old s**t (dont try to deny it!) comes along with super graphics & every games journo across the globe begins declaring it the next best thing ever! The world is a sad & confusing place sometimes

Go play Battlefield 2 and then look at the content for Battlefield 3.
Co-op, story campaign, online action, increased destruction, fighter jets, full 64 player combat.

Yes it has men in military outfits, attacking other men in military outfits. But in terms of the advancement since BF2 -- this is landmark jumps they are making. Shame you cant see that?

sniper789 on 18 Aug '11 said:

FPS's like Battlefield and CoD are just too bland and overdone these days, unlike Bioshock and Borderlands which take the FPS genre into new directions.

This is just my opinion, of course.

lmimmfn on 18 Aug '11 said:

This makes me sad as a gamer. You hear alot of ranting & raving over unoriginality in games, especially millitary fps.
Then a sequel to the same old s**t (dont try to deny it!) comes along with super graphics & every games journo across the globe begins declaring it the next best thing ever! The world is a sad & confusing place sometimes

Go play Battlefield 2 and then look at the content for Battlefield 3.
Co-op, story campaign, online action, increased destruction, fighter jets, full 64 player combat.

Yes it has men in military outfits, attacking other men in military outfits. But in terms of the advancement since BF2 -- this is landmark jumps they are making. Shame you cant see that?

actually while BF3 is looking great its a step backwards from BF2, no commander( no vehicle/ammo/medic drops, arty or command structure ), less maps on release 9( excluding the BF2 4 ) vs 12, less men in a squad, same max number of players, less soldier classes. Less number of vehicles( 2 attack helis vs 4, 2 APCs vs 3, 2 jets vs 4, 2 attack jets/bombers vs 3, 2 transport helis vs 3 ), no modding, no bots, no local server, the list goes on and on.

Ok so BF3 has a lot of bells and whistles, destruction and unlocks to the point of it becoming senseless( i mean cmon unlocking defib for medic or rather assult ), but its no leap compared to BF2 other than graphically.

Im sure all the missing vehicles etc will end up being DLC, but not pushing the boundries on player limit and removing the command structure means it really isint providing anything new to FPS. I dont mind, BF2 with updated gfx, bells and whistless and the loss of a few things is ok.

pRM8 on 18 Aug '11 said:

FPS's like Battlefield and CoD are just too bland and overdone these days, unlike Bioshock and Borderlands which take the FPS genre into new directions.

This is just my opinion, of course.

But they are very different FPS's. The BF and CoD series are mainly bought for the MP (I know there is a SP element but that isn't the 'meat' of the game) and are military objective based shooters. Bioshock and Borderlands on the other hand are mainly bought for the SP experience (again I know there is MP in Bioshock but it isn't the main focus) and are story driven shooters.

Its like comparing Apples and Bananas, yes they are both fruit but they are very different fruit. There is room for all kinds of first person shooters and indeed fruit, just play what tickles your fancy.

sonic_uk on 18 Aug '11 said:

I'm sure its a good game, I certainly hope so as I have it on preorder (for the Single Player mode only) but its hardly revolutionary and certainly not deserving of a reward considering the other games that are upcoming at the moment. I wonder if the graphics weren't so good or have the weight of Ea behind it would it have still scored as highly? I seriously doubt it. Deus Ex is a far more interesting and longer game with much more varied gameplay and deserves wholeheartedly to win an award, but does it get a mention? Of course not. Only the most hyped franchises get recognition which is wrong on so may levels. "Expert jury" my a***.