The game on the tip of everyone’s tongue right now is Battlefield 3. This is certainly going to be the biggest surprise release of 2011 in terms of the number of sales and the amount of success this game has. It already has shattered old sales records by ten times over!
One thing you should know in this Battlefield 3 guide is that you cannot get BF3 on Steam. Steam is the biggest PC gaming portal, so the announcement that players will not be able to download the game on Steam has really hampered the hype around this game.
You may be wondering why players actually want to buy the game off Steam, and the reason is simple: Steam doubles as a social network and chat client and sells all sorts of games. People log in to Steam to play games so they can chat with their friends and see what games their friends are in. It is a lot like X-Box Live for the computer. No one wants to log into two chat clients in order to see what their friends are doing as that would just be annoying.
Battlefield 3 does not want to sell their game on Steam because they are planning on introducing downloadable content which you will have to pay for sometime after the game is released. A lot of games nowadays release little things like extra maps or guns and then want you to pay $10 or $15 for the extra content. It is like a mini-expansion which used to be reserved for computer games that has made its way into the mainstream video games thanks to the X-Box and PS3.
At any rate, once you get on Battlefield 3, the game can be a lot of fun. In this quick guide, I am going to give you a run down of the game. The first thing you should know is that there are four classes you can pick from: the Recon class, the Support kit, the Assault Kit, or the Engineer kit. The Recon player uses Sniper Rifles, the Support player uses light machine guns, the Assault Kit uses assault rifles, and the Engineer kit uses carbines.
One interesting thing is that in real life, carbines and assault rifles are the same thing. I suspect that Battlefield 3 is throwing in the Carbine name to help differentiate themselves from Modern Warfare 3, as otherwise each game would have the same sorts of guns.