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"      So this is just another first-person shooter, but new, right? Well, bullets fly, and grenade pins drop, and all you have to worry about injuring are thumbs. But not exactly: Battlefield is slower and more deliberate, paced for those who can put their ADHD on hold for a few hours and get into some virtual firefights. While the last two games in the Call of Duty series boasted the biggest gaming launches in history, Battlefield has \u2014 as the commercial you&amp;#039;ve seen during every football game in recent weeks says \u2014 tried to go &amp;quot;above and beyond the call.&amp;quot;  Does it really look as good as in that commercial I&amp;#039;ve seen during every football game? Yeah. The photo-realism is thanks to a new gaming &amp;quot;engine&amp;quot; called Frostbite 2, which is about as important to Battlefield 3 as a Hemi is to a &amp;#039;68 Barracuda. An enemy has a flashlight on his gun, and you&amp;#039;re actually blinded. Drive a tank into a building, then watch it collapse. Fire off a round into a wall, or even write your name with it. A fight takes you through Times Square, and pedestrians slap taxi hoods, screaming, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m walkin&amp;#039; here!&amp;quot; (We think.) This doesn&amp;#039;t take place in some vaguely Iraqi-looking place then? Didn&amp;#039;t you hear? The war is over! (Sorta.) While Battlefield&amp;#039;s actual battle may be imaginary (if strikingly realistic), you&amp;#039;re controlling a Marine unit from the actual Iraq-Iran border on into France and back home to the States, ideally with your chemical-weapons inspectors safely in tow. No Paul Wolfowitz necessary. Isn&amp;#039;t this just something I should get my cousin for Christmas? Sure, but it&amp;#039;s sixty bucks, and why let him have all the fun when you can play against him and sixty-two other people at the same time? Maverick and Iceman never had dogfights like this. But is it better than Call of Duty? It&amp;#039;s Stones-Beatles, man. Try for yourself online right here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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