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Battlefield 3: Premium Edition

2012

  • shooter
  • action
  • historical
  • warfare

The story

Take your Battlefield 3 multiplayer experience to the next level with Battlefield 3: Premium Edition! Containing a staggering amount of content, Battlefield 3 Premium offers all expansion packs with early access, new soldier and weapon camos, and a number of exclusive in-game items all for a one-time fee. Battlefield 3: Premium Edition includes expansion packs Back to Karkand, Close Quarters, Armored Kill, End Game, and Expansion Pack #5.

What it’s like

Gritty, saturated military realism: sun-bleached Middle Eastern deserts and rain-slicked Parisian streets rendered in a heavy, cinematic contrast, with dust kicking off armor, tracer fire streaking through dusk haze, and explosions that throw up glowing debris under a hard blue sky. The sound design leans on the thud and crack of big-calibre weapons, roaring jet engines overhead, and a dramatic orchestral score that swells during big captures and drops to tense, ticking quiet between skirmishes. Vibe-wise it is loud, competitive and kinetic, the kind of adrenaline-fuelled session for a weekend night with friends on voice chat, or a long evening of pushing objectives after work. Pacing is relentless in the big 64-player maps and tighter in the close-quarters urban ones, with squads regrouping, flanking and reviving one another. Tone stays sincere and tactical rather than jokey, and the emotional register is teamwork under pressure, with rivalries and comradeship playing out across rounds. Violence is constant but stylised: gunfire, vehicle wrecks and explosions with no gore emphasis, and no sexual content. It suits players who want a large-scale, team-driven modern shooter with plenty of content to unlock and an earnest, war-movie flavour.

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