Battlefield 3

The game is awesome. The Call of Duty franchise does not compare. <br /> <br />I wish GameFly would mention not including the Online Pass unless you buy the game, though. You can get a 48-hour trial from onlinepass.battlefield.com, which is what I did. <br /> <br />I might even keep this one. Definitely recommend it.

With the online portion locked out behind a code (not even the usual trial period), there is almost no reason at all to rent BF3. The single player portion is simply awful. By all accounts, the online multiplayer is fantastic, but don&#39;t rent it for that purpose unless you are prepared to pay the $10 to access the online features. <br /> <br />Basically, buy it or just skip it altogether. It isn&#39;t worth the rental because the portion of the game you can access is really THAT bad. I don&#39;t mind online passes (but do think they should offer a brief trial period if they want sales), but there is almost nothing in the single player campaign to recommend. Unless you like bugs.

Any attempt to play the game online, co-op or against other players, requires you to spend 800 Microsoft points. I had originally rented this game so I could get online to play with friends. Multiplayer game play is the best part of the series. Without it, it&#39;s just another shooter. I tried to play the single player mode, however the plot is about as thin as a wet tissue. The graphics are excellent, and the controls are very smooth. However, I find myself unwilling to pay 10 dollars just to play online when I&#39;ve already payed for Xbox Live and for my Gamefly subscription. Save yourself the frustration of having to wait through an extra mailing cycle just because that information wasn&#39;t made readily evident.

Great graphics and sound. Loved playing on my Epson 8350 projector and hearing the sound through my kef speakers. Aside from that, the campaign was short, full of glitches, and didn&#39;t really have any flow to it but overall the game was enjoyable. <br /> <br />The issue I have with it, is the Online pass that one must buy if they either rent the game, borrow it from a friend, or buy it used. <br />I WILL NEVER BUY A GAME THAT USES THIS BUSINESS PRACTICE and I will make sure I go out of my way to influence other peoples&#39; decision to not buy these types of games. I recommend everybody speak with their wallets and stop this practice before other game companies decide to take notice and becomes an industry standard. These companies need to stop trying to nickel and dime us every chance they get. I guess millions in profits is not enough these days. <br /> <br />SO THIS GAME IS A DON&#39;T BUY

Game looks great. all the weapons seem similar though. The storyline makes sense but isn&#39;t very in depth. You dont care about the characters. You have to spend 800 points to download something t play online. well if you&#39;re renting it 800 point is a lot. Beat it in 5 hours and sent it back.

I have played my fair share of first person shooters in my day, and none of them has been as enjoyable as Battlefield 3 has been. Once you get the hang of piloting all of the vehicles, the game gets that much better. The sound of gunfire in the background, the visual effects the environment has, the equipment you carry actually playing a role in combat is the epitome of what I want out of a shooter. DICE has always made good games, and Frostbite is a wonderful engine. This game is a must rent.

It boggles my mind the way greed motivates gaming companies these days. A warning, you will not even be able to access the multiplayer portion of this game without forking over another $10 to EA upon startup. Something I was not willing to do, so I decided to at least play through the single player campaign before I sent the game back. <br /> <br />That was my mistake of course. The single player campaign is an obvious clone of the last few Call of Duty games, without the decent story writing. Now I&#39;m not saying the Call of Duty games we written particularly well, but at least any inaccuracies were easily overlooked in the midst of all the action. Not so in Battlefield 3. There were several points in this game where I was so taken aback by the outlandish story that I contemplated just giving up on the game altogether. But I persevered, and in a little over 5 hours the game was finished. <br /> <br />I will give it this, the game is beautiful...assuming you installed the 1.5 Gig HD content pack. If not, most of the textures in the game are blurry and unimpressive. <br /> <br />The controls are fairly solid, no complaints there, but then again its just an exact copy of what other shooters have already perfected. <br /> <br />It&#39;s really the story and linear gameplay that lets me down on this one. It&#39;s difficult to explain why the story is so poor without spoiling it for anyone who actually does want to play this game, but just know that the game forces you to make certain decisions that are both unnecessary completely unrealistic. <br /> <br />Overall, if you don&#39;t plan on forking over another $10 to the corporate fat cats to access the multiplayer portion of this game, I would recommend skipping it all together, as the single player campaign will leave you bewildered and a little ticked off. <br /> <br />A small note: if this is the way games continue to trend, I will very likely be cancelling my Gamefly account. There is no reason for me to have a game rental service when I will be expected to pay additional fees just to pl

this game is a very amazing, action packed, and very interactive. its multiplier is amazing! buildings can be somewhat dismembered and planes, jets, humvees, almost any transports are interactive!