Battlefield 3 open beta opened this past weekend. Anyone with an Xbox 360, PS3, or a computer (with the system requirements met) can get their hands on the soon to be released game. The graphics are excellent, the color palette is extensive, and everything looks crisp and vibrant. They added a lot of blur effects to the game (including a blurring of the screen when you’re next to someone firing a weapon) which added a sense of realism but it did get to the point where it became hard to focus on an object.
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| Battlefield 3 |
The gameplay: The beta offers one map and all four classes (medic, assault, engineer, and sniper). The map is an objective-based assault map with one side assaulting and one defending. The map didn’t have any vehicles, so we still don’t know anything about them outside of the officially and unofficially released videos. There are above-ground and subterranean parts of the map with the subterranean portion being in a subway. Each class has a unique ability such as ammo box, medic pack, repair (blowtorch), or radio beacon with the option to improve or change these abilities as you rank up.
Flaws in the beta: Naturally there are going to be problems in a beta, here are some of them that we found. There are various terrain bugs (such as not being able to stand still and glitches interacting with things like the floor or wall), it’s possible to get stuck in a few places, there are issues with guns going through walls, occasionally the screen will go black on a frame, and there are some minor audio glitches. The most annoying glitch of all is the inability to quit the game (apparently you’re supposed to spend the rest of your life playing the beta).
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| Gunning down those baddies |
We are excited for the release of Battlefield 3 but it still has a long way to come, hopefully the purpose of this open beta isn’t to just test to server but actually catch some of the last glitches so that it may have a smooth release. Above all else we are most excited for one thing in this Battlefield game that takes itself back to its roots. We can finally lay on the ground again, something that I have missed for a long time and should have never been taken out of the Battlefield games. You can find the open beta Battlefield 3 in the Xbox 360 demo game section, on the PSN, and on the Battlefield 3 homepage for PC.
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