In a new interview with VG24/7, Battlefield 3 lead designer David Goldfarb talked a lot about the singleplayer component of Battlefield 3, and where DICE drew inspiration from to craft the singleplayer campaign. Specifically, Goldfarb mentioned that DICE isnt looking to emulate Modern Warfare nor are they looking to repeat Bad Company 2 for Battlefield 3, theyre aiming for a more realistic experience.


To use the example of Modern Warfare: theyre doing things their way and theyre awesome at that, but we wanted to do things our way, and we hope that were awesome at that. And that means were doing Generation Kill and 24; thats closer to what were doing, I think.


Generation Kill is a realistic, cinema vrit-styled TV series that follows a group of soldiers in Iraq. Goldfarb also mentioned that unlike the recent Call of Duty singleplayer campaigns that are constantly high-paced, Battlefield 3 aims for a variety of pacing styles throughout the story, as Goldfarb puts it:

We are looking for a broad pacing, from 1-10 as opposed to 10-11. I think thats a pretty big deal for shooters, to try to do that kind of pacing, to have it be slow for a little while and to make people wait. Thats much harder than we thought it was.
Finally, Goldfarb commented on the length of the singleplayer campaign, saying that its around 7 hours, depending on what difficulty you play on, and mentioned that they rather have six hours of awesome than 12 hours of meh. We couldnt agree more.

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