Battlefield 3 Beta - Impressions

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First thing first, yes i know its a beta.

Gameplay is smoother than BC2 imo. It feels a bit more fast paced and overall different from BC2.

The game is full of bugs. The running function didn't work for me for about half a game. I accidentally fell through the map twice. In one spawn my screen was saturated with a dark blue, not sure what that was. Finally the weirdest of them all, a big sound shriek caused my game to lose all audio and i began teleporting as well as enemies.

On to the graphics. I played other game betas and have seen that the final product is not that much better than the final product; only slight improvements. Textures and resolution are overall good. You bump into some low resolution textures occasionally like the sandbags or even 2d tree details and shrubs. The game is plagued with texture pop in and horrible aliasing in some areas imo. Also, the game tears and some of the lighting isn't good.

The game is a good overall. Bugs should get ironed out before release but in terms of visuals, i think thats what will be present on release. Definitely in the top 10 or 5 best looking multiplat titles, but far from the best looking game on console. Much like Crysis 2, i expect this to get called graphikz kiNg by many users such as Selnor.