Battlefield 3

About this game

Battlefield 3 is a Xbox 360 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

Collected in series

Battlefield

View all games in this series →

Battlefield builds military shooters around team objectives, infantry and vehicles sharing a changing battlefield. Finding a useful role, moving with your squad and helping take or hold ground are central pleasures across its historical and modern settings.

Battlefield 1942

Windows PC7.5 / 10

2002

Battlefield 6

PlayStation 58.5 / 10

Oct 10, 2025

Battlefield 1

Windows PC8.7 / 10

2016