One of the highlights of E3 2011 for me so far has been the half hour or so that I spent at the Electronic Arts booth which showed off Battlefield 3 playing the multiplayer version of the game with another 15 gamers and the development team.
Kevin O’Leary, who works on Battlefield 3, says that this is the video game that DICE has wanted to create ever since they have created the series and that the new Frostbite 2 engine is a revolution both in terms of how the game looks and how it moves.The multiplayer session was exciting and managed to show off the strengths of the game: the beautiful look, the well designed maps, the fast yet coordinate action and the simple ways in which gamers are encouraged to work together.The map used at the E3 2011 multiplayer event was set in Paris, with the team made up of visitors to the Battlefield 3 booth playing attackers and trying to take over two objectives in order to then open up new segments of the map.The four classes, which sadly were not customizable at the event, nicely complement each other and it is easy to see how experienced teams will be able to coordinate and dominate the battle space once the game is out.Battlefield 3 looks so good that I actually got killed two times (I managed to be the 7th best player on my team at the end of the game) because of it: once while looking at how light was streaming through the trees and once when examining how high powered weaponry from both sides was remaking the park we were in.The team has been also talking about how the game will scale in order to accommodate from 64 to 8 players on a map and promise more reveals in the near future about Battlefield 3.