I am going to kick this off with this preliminary statement. 8/10 is by no means a score to scoff at. Especially given the usual freak-out that fan boys have whenever a game that they subscribe their life to receive anything below 9 (sometimes even 10), I DO want to emphasize that point. 8/10 is NOT a bad score by any means. That said this is certainly not a winner for DICE/EA.
“I’m going to play it to bits – eventually. Right now, it’s broken, and I’m going to wait. Buy it when it has been patched.”
That’s the kind of statement you usually see in games that receive a 6 or a 7. Battlefield 3, being the next big (and gorgeous) Battlefield game however, does get away with an 8. PC Gamer is one of the few remaining high-profile gaming publications that don’t treat PC gaming coverage as an afterthought, and does a fair job of representing the barometer of what the PC audience expects. And their surprisingly condemning review, despite the decent final score of 8/10, is not something EA will be putting down as a Victory in their checklist for its self-proclaimed PR war against Activision’s COD franchise (see here for the ‘Above & beyond the CALL’ trailer that sums it up). Read on after the jump.
