Never Walk Away From The Threat

After a brief 6 hours, I finish the single player campaign of Battlefield 3. The playing through the story was a wonderful visual and aural treat with some really fun moments like taking off from an aircraft carrier and being part of a tank charge.

Sadly that's end to the good times. Everything else is mediocre or bad. A lot of following NPCs and waiting for the scripting to open doors. Most levels are narrow paths with few giving you room to flank. Infinite enemy respawns if you don't go where the scripting wants you to go. Quick time events to stick a knife in to things. It's a nuclear weapon threat again. Bad guys you don't get to know and thus don't care about. Good guys you don't get to know and thus don't care about. Finally, the ending is kinda stupid with you last action being a quick time event.

I appreciate DICE for making an effort, but the result is merely competent and much too familiar. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by how things have ended up, but I really hoped that the single campaign would constantly leverage Battlefield's strengths of big, open spaces and vehicles.