Best military shooter ever made. What am I saying? It's the best Shooter period. One of the best games, ever.
There are some bugs right now with the EA servers. Who didn't see this coming right? EA has the anti-Midas Touch. Everything they touch seems to be dampened by technical issues. I'm giving this review with the feeling that servers will stabilize over time with the amount of players on at one time diminishes as the game progresses and other games come out.
As far as Gamespot's review of this game, they shouldn't rate the single player. They talk about how the single player campaign feels recycled and out dated. There is nothing outdated with this game. The graphics are the best ever seen on an Xbox 360. The sound is incredible, a pure 10/10. The single player campaign shouldn't feel used. Just you wait, knowing the Gamespot is CoD fanboys, they'll probably give it just a higher score than BF3. I promise you, MW3 will have basically the exact same story that we've seen out of previous installments of CoD. This story line is basically funneled. Thats the one flaw with any modern military FPS. You have to be fighting a war and typically it's going to be fictional. There's not really anything that can be changed. If you are a person looking for single player action, you're lost in an endless cycle. Go play a different genre. I promise you, there are no dragons to be slain or princesses to be rescued here--but that's exactly what is expected.
The multiplayer is incredible. By far the best I've ever seen. You won't stop playing. It can get frustrating with the amount of different styles of players. Some players are run-n-gun type of shooters. While others stick to the armored vehicles. With this version of BF, you can be an ace pilot and really cause havoc and death from above. Sniping is the most realistic thing I've ever seen. Wind speed and gravity affect your shots over long distances--as they should. Finally, there is the camper. That person that gets a fast-firing, ammo-guzzling machine gun, lays an ammo pack, and sits cowardly in a corner shooting the first thing that comes around the corner (including their own team mates occasionally). This is a video game, don't play scared. You're not actually going to die. Use all the virtual lives you want. Everyone has camped in a FPS before, I know, but there are players in which this is the only thing they can/will do. It's just frustrating at times. Like that guy on Madden who always runs the same money play over and over. They aren't as skilled as most but they put up a good fight by cheating the system. The only thing worse than a camper, is a newb-tuber but I won't even get into that.
The truly glorious thing about BF3 is all the "epic moments" you get to watch and be a part of across the giant maps. The tides of battle can change at any point on the map. While you and a buddy are going back-to-back against an all out onslaught protecting a precious battle point, your squad member swoops down with a jet, lighting up the opposition, just when you thought all was lost. Then, there is another squad rolling in with a tank into a crowded enemy-captured point trying to seize control. All the while, that quiet, sneaky guy who hasn't said anything through Xbox Live in over 5 minutes is hidden in the crest of a rock formation slowing depleting the opposition's forces with long-range sniper fire. It's these moments in BF3 that make your jaw drop and your mind spin. It's that oh-so-close death that makes you want to throw your controller through the television and that, "Did you see that?!" grenade throw. It's the self-satisfaction of victory and the bitterness of defeat. Now that truly is... Battlefield.