Hope FCC can survive the big business counter punch. Glad mobile broadband is included. I am hating getting 10 dollar over usage charges per 50gb from comcast base on data metering they are controlling. Hate that speeds on comcast tv streaming never has a problem but netflix and vudu buffers on the lowest setting. ISP's had become the judge, jury, executioner, and banker of internet. Currently have a 300gb data "cap" that somehow mysterious has usage even when modem is unplugged for wall for 3 days. No consumer power to fight anything when you challenge problems. It would be like having a electric bill but no electric meters and each month the company can make up there own rules. ISP's have had that type of power. Lets not even get on wirelessly broadcasting internet "for all comcast users" thru your modem/router (i put mine in bridge mode to cut that crap out).

@Tranula

Rocking it at 60 fps with with a combination of high and medium, tessellation on, ambient occlusion on low. If I turn off tessellation and ambient occlusion then I'll put everyone on high outside texture quality on medium. Only playing at 1366x768. Also on the 460mb with 768mb of ram and I turned off my overclock so its on stock,

IF this is true, it will be the first time in many generations that a console was releasing with hardware that is significantly slower on the GPU and CPU then what is available on the market right now..

No choppines at all on my side. Constant 60 fps and i'm on a lower laptop with a I5 2400m and nvidia gt 540m. From what I heard, the game had some slight problems with stronger machines then weaker. Will see though. Just tried it also with my backup Acer with amd's 3500m and apu system. Constant 60 but had to turn AA off and all options to medium to get it running perfectly.

Ok review in the grand scheme of things. The friends argument is slightly off. If you hit friends only, it will show you only multiplayer games started by your friends. I do agree that there should be a option to simply right click on a friends name and pop on in in the way Steam friends works but a game like this does not absolutely need it.

Things I see missing from the review. The ease of online play in respect to issues if game goes down. If you accidentally lose internet or anything, you immediately are in single player so you don't lose out on the gameplay. LAN for me is big. I have several friends who prefer VPN's over running thru a online client. Game really shines for us in that respect.

Great game. Horrible port job. The bad thing for gamespot is that it has now accepted a double standard between review structures where games can be severely impacted do to port issues or be overlooked for sake of overall game content. Its a dangerous road to play but we will see how it works out in the end.

@MatrixKing You are doing yourself a injustice by not playing. They changed the whole way experience is given and if you had a account before the switch over to the new gui, you get in essence every character to unlock or unlock a couple and max out all there item upgrades. Not only that but the experience per round has gone up. The customization is back now. The developers really took notice on that and this last patch was over 1.1gb and addressed exactly this. Its also what this article talks about and this just scratches the surface

@bignick217 When you represent a whole website as this writer does, it would be in the best of journalistic principles to get some understanding of everything. This article comes off as someone without a clue of new technology ,putting together a rig, not doing much research, and just grabbing parts. Its not that this rig is bad. Its actually a good rig but the price to performance is really poor. The whole couple paragraphs on not understanding motherboards comes off as a tad bit unprofessional as well. This is not a blog. This is a article that has been on the front page of this website. This is not the first site to do something like this and it is far better then many others but considering there are reviewers (Kevin-V for example) and members who could really help him put together a great rig, it comes off as not well done. The consensus has been fairly the exact same over the 5 pages of comments (to high of cpu, to high of motherboard, to much ram, why a open box gpu, to high end of a cpu cooler). Good article but when the PC platform on this site is rarely discussed, something like this does not do it justice.

As everyone has stated, do not need a i2600K (i2500K is plenty), do not need 16 gb of ram (8 is plenty), h100 is cool but if you not overclocking extremely seems like a epeen decision and extra waste of money, extremely expensive motherboard which is not needed unless to gloat about as your neither doing triple SLI as of now nor overclocking severly (Just added cost when a good duel pci express will easily do for years and SB can overclock nicely without the need of the overly expensive top end mini water block) End result, could have used money more constructively and got a faster video card or SLI which for BF3 is more concerned with and a build that while cheaper is faster in multiple applications. Easily with that budget should be maxing the game out well over 60 fps on ultra but some decisions of the article is very perplexing. I really wish writers would take some time, get some feedback on members before writing articles like this. It gives off false impressions of Pc gaming, Pc hardware, and sadly, bad stereotypes.

@gamerlegend10 Problem with your theory is that you are assuming PC gamers Have to upgrade so much. They do not. They just want to. For example, how hard do you think it is to play a game at 720p, at say 30 fps on a pc? Its not alot of power needed. That resolution was the sweet spot say 6 years ago. Offcourse now we are in 1080p+ so many pc gamers have upgraded accordingly because of the performance needed for such resolutions. Its not mandatory though. This is why so many gamers are still on say nvidia 8800 gt's etc playing in marginal resolution ranges. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Onlive needs to move to countries with almost no bandwidth limits, and really high connection for the masses and really cheap prices. This is why I always believed it could work great in say Japan, Taiwan or countries with deep fiber optic groundwork. You really need a beast connection that has a ISP provider with loos download/upload restrictions and no limiting for it to work well. Also, 720p resolution will need to be advanced to 1080+ while still maintaining the same bandwidth usage for this to be viable in the Pc gaming scene.

@JusticeCovert This post sounds very good but it comes out a bit hypocritical considering this site has always done a horrible job of adding information after a review. Many games that are given horrible scores because of bugs, gameplay, or performance issues (Serious Sam HD close encounter, IL-2 Sturmovik, Elemental: War and Magic to name a few) get pounded on heavily to the point they are classified as horrible game pieces. Problem is that editors neither want or have the time to go back and use features like After the facts when the bulk of what degraded the review has changed significantly through patching If you added all "after the facts" or "review revisions" on gamespot you will see it is rarely used. A easy solution is to do reviews base on time and state that in the review article. This way, a person reviewing will not just assume a game is in such a sad state because a year ago it got a 4/10 because of bugs and performance issues. Also, do a after the facts statement on patches and issues resolved or just use the After the facts stating just patch notes with date they were released and DLC. I remember a time when this site would keep gamers informed on updates and patchwork on games (specifically PC gaming). As the console centric gameplay and atmosphere took over GS, that went away but as many know, console gaming has evolved now to the same patch works and bugs as Pc games in the past. This is the life of gaming these days and it really needs to be demonstrated and stated for people reading reviews of games.