General Comments:
* Patrick Bach: The Bad Company series has had little influence on BF3. BF3 will be a direct sequel to BF2
* The BF3 team encompasses about 240 people, or three-to-four times more people that the BF2 team.
* Impressive lighting effects. Lighting technology uses "Light probes" on the map. One probe has more light information than one complete map in BC2. It also works with dynamically changing terrain.
* Gamestar witnessed a presentation that ran on a quad core cpu with a Radeon 5800
* Destructability was apparently impressive.
* Character animations: A combination of ragdoll and scripted death animations, which Gamestar found to be pretty realistic.
* ANT and motion capturing technology from EA is being used which is being used on Sports games like Madden NFL.
* Unbelievable sound: Sound will be better than in BC2. One can easily locate shooters. Most realistic combat sound so far.
Frostbite engine:
* Physics, Destruction
* Can display a huge number of dynamic lights
* DICE: Engine too complex for hobby modders. No mod tools at first, not sure whether there will ever be.
* One object can have up to 83 audio channels
Single Player:
* BC-2-style wise-cracking humor, will be not be used.
* Spoiler: SP is set in a North American forested mountain terrain. There will be a European city setting and Iraq 2014 with 1st Recon Marines. At least one solo mission as jet pilot.
* Enemies: Iraqi resistance army PLR
* Some soldiers faces belong to DICE developers
* Several slow motion moments inSP
* At least one fight scene where the player has to click the right or left mouse button quick enough to win.
* Earthquakes in SP cause a Humvee to disappear into a huge crack, a high building collapses and hits a black hawk helicopter, falling pieces of buildings can hurt characters in sp and mp
* DICE didn't say whether it will be possible to give commands to comrades
Multiplayer:
* Lars Gustavsson: MP designer is part of DICE since 2000
* Max players pc: 64 Consoles: 32
* MP info:
* F-16 and Su-27 spotted, modern helicopters, tanks
* 4 soldier classes, 5 accessories kits
* Maps will be as big as in BF2
* Dice promises more unlock-able weapons and tools, the look can be changed, better balanced ranking system
* Hardcore mode: likely as it is popular
* Commander mode: Very unlikely
* Replay function: (aka Battlerecorder) Dice is testing it
* Coop mode: Has been announced, but Dice also called normal matches vs bots coop mode too
* Dedicated servers: Definitely
* Prone: Yes. Dice wants to avoid dolphin diving
Gamestar's review:
Positive: Sound, destruction, a real Battlefield game
Negative: Story-telling methods in SP is getting a bit old