There are eight maps in total for competitive multiplayer. The maps have been shrunk a bit for the console versions so you won't feel lonely with 24 players on a Conquest map. Still, you'll have a lot of fun playing Conquest on the Xbox 360 or Rush on the PC. The console versions support 24 players per match and subsequently are more suited for the focused nature of Rush.
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Conquest is more popular on the PC because the higher player cap (64) for that version. You plant a bomb at an objective deep behind enemy lines and then have to defend it until it detonates.
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Rush, meanwhile, feels a bit like you're playing Counter-Strike. Conquest is a map-wide battle that challenges teams to hold and attack several territories at once. Rush and Conquest are both essentially capture-the-territory but play very differently. In Rush, a designated attacking team attempts to plant charges on two objective points if successful, they unlock another pair of objectives to blow up and the match goes on. Each team has a finite amount of "reinforcements" that are whittled down by deaths or by controlling fewer objectives than the other team. In Conquest, two teams battle to control several points on the map. The objective-based Conquest and Rush modes are by far the most popular. The competitive multiplayer has the polish and vision that the one- and two-player modes lack. They've been refining the formula for this side of the game since 2002 and it shows. DICE once again gives two teams a heap of deadly toys and lets them play war on massive maps. However, these modes are are attached to possibly the best competitive multiplayer shooter out there.
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If the single-player and co-op were the full game, BF3 would be a quickly forgotten shooter. Like the single-player, it fails to impress. If not for these unlockable items, though, I get the feeling very few people would bother with co-op past the first few deaths. The co-op offers a selection of unlocks for normal multiplayer, and you get experience points toward these unlocks even if you fail a mission, so there's at least some small incentive to keep trying. If you die at any point in the 15-20 minute mission, you'll be forced to replay it from the beginning. They also carry another nasty surprise: no checkpoints.
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They're subject to many of the same problems as the single-player experience. The visually stunning take-off and tense dogfight are followed by a dull replica of the AC130 segments from the Modern Warfare games.īF3 also ships with six co-op missions. However, you're the gunner so the sequence is just rail shooting. In one mission, you take on the role of an F-18 pilot flying above Iran. The ways that DICE tries to break up the monotony of the foot soldier segments fall flat, too.
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The solo journey is a highly linear experience that tells you when it wants you to get in a vehicle and kills you if you try an alternate route to an objective. All of that is completely missing from BF3's campaign. The appeal of BF's multiplayer are the vast battlegrounds and the countless tactical opportunities offered to players through the deep selection of weapons, equipment, and vehicles. It shares the same problem as Bad Company 2's campaign: it doesn't play to the strengths of the Battlefield franchise at all. Unfortunately, the campaign's not all that fun. These little bits of mystery were enough to keep me playing until the end. The dialogue of this interrogation, though painfully bad at times, often hints at the past events we'll soon see. The playable moments of the game are these flashbacks. The story is told mostly through flashbacks, as the Marine is interrogated by the CIA. It's a much more ambitious storyline than the "wise-cracking dudes save the world again" plots of the Bad Company games. The campaign focuses on the efforts of a United States Marine and GRU operative to stop a terrorist group called the PLR.