"one of the most visually stunning, atmosphericly immersive and fantasticly sounding games to date"
It is a game just like Deus Ex was that I have been looking forward to for a while and prayed it wouldn't be rubbish and as always i'll start with the graphics and without a doubt the game as a whole is one of the most visually stunning, atmosphericly immersive and fantasticly sounding games to date, technilogicly. Which makes the campaign more like a short TV series, alot of people called it short and dull and tbh for once I disagree with the masses, I enjoyed the story and thought it lasted a decent ammount of time. I didn't clock it but it was easily 5+ hours and I normally fly through first person shooters. I would of liked to see more of the "ending" or have had it extended, but it did end the story and not leave it hanging.
*SPOILERS - STOP READING* The game starts at the end and then goes back intime, the story is broken up with interogation sequences (Stolen from CoD:BO quite blatently which a complete shame) but has Glenn Morshower playing his typical "agent/army" role of some form which makes the voice acting suit the interogation and work brilliantly which is a shame BO did it first. Each part of the campaign features somewhere visually stunning as I said at the start, plays a key part of the unfolding story. These have some brilliant quicktime events to break up the action though personally I think cutscenes would of worked just as well. The air plane moment had me begging to do some of the flying myself BUT I can understand why they left you in the gunner seat seeing as not everyone can actually fly to begin with let alone complete a mission based on it. That and it looked awesome. Have I mentioned the game looks amazing? The earth is shaking, buildings are falling, things are exploding, people are screaming and yelling, guns are blazing and I will admit I died once or twice watching something happen in the background rather then look where I was going or who I was suppose to be shooting at. Once or twice I even sat going "oh wow look at that" to which my Fiancée would look up, raise an eye brow and go back to what ever it was she was doing. As for the gameplay, the guns are awesome, some of the maps are nice and open others are a bit closed and linear but it doesn't spoil it.The AI seems pretty intelligent if not reckless especially if your quick enough to pick them off at there spawn entrances as they have no where else to go. Thankfully they have managed to avoid what I hated in BF2 which was where you would go from casually gunning down your foe to walking through a doorway into a hail of bullets from the 20 or so troops waiting, which on hard difficulty makes it one of those die 5+ times untill you do it so slow you spend 10 minutes there moments, so that was an advantage.
Now normally I would tell you what got me down in the game or what annoyed me and to be hoenst nothing really stood out, except I don't remember getting to own up in a Helicopter.
Finally price.... To date this is the most expensive PC game EVER at just over £35 (yes I know its £30 on play :'( ) if you were buying this game for the campaign then I don't know it's a hard call, as it looks amazing and I actually enjoyed it, but it is short. Saying that though BF3 is a MP game, the campaign is a bonus! So it's down to you. Short but very sweet 10/10 for sound and visuals and a nice 7/10 for the story and length. So a nice 8.5 deserved for a great campaign.