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Best Shooter 2011

Posted on Monday, December 19 @ 10:42:04 Eastern by


Battlefield 3


Platform(s): Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: DICE

I don't really care about the supposed battle between Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. We know it's all just a fabricated duel between EA and Activision to hype both titles, and yes, us journalists love to bask in this sideshow with our news stories with controversial quotes. We like hits after all. And it pisses a certain group of prepubescent teenagers off, which is fun in its own right.

But are any of you actually surprised that we've given Battlefield 3 the Best Shooter award? We did give this game an A- and Modern Warfare 3 a B-. I mean, as far as we're concerned, Gears of War 3, Dead Space 2, and Crysis 2 had a (much) better chance at snatching the award away. Still, Battlefield 3's team-based multiplayer, which emphasizes each player devoting themselves to a specific role, is difficult to beat. Being ranked first on a team just for being proficient at being a medic or a engineer just doesn't happen often in other games, and multiplayer faithfully rewards squads who work together cohesively. Oh, and did I mention the graphics are awesome as well?

(Actually, we didn't want Modern Warfare 2 to win again... yeah, you know what I said.)

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Related Games:   Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Crysis 2, Dead Space 2, Gears of War 3
Tags:   Best of GR, Battlefield


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  • Keri_Honea
    Keri_Honea
    Joined: Dec 2011
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
    Awww, I have to respectfully disagree. Gears of War 3 is hands down the best shooter this year. BF3's story bored me too much to make it a serious contender.
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  • Blazin13
    Blazin13
    Joined: Dec 2010
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
    I can understand why your saying that, but was Gears itself ever really about the story? It was basically space marines not in space with beautiful set pieces and a sweet chainsaw gun. Gears 3 I think had the best story of the series, but it's hard to relate to a man who looks like he fell into a massive vat of steroids.
    0 0
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
    GeoW had a story?
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2011 at 2:31 am
    Current gen shooters have stories?
    0 0
  • Diabolus
    Diabolus
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
    I liked Dead Space 2 the best.
    0 0
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
    I love this game, but I don't think I agree with this award either.
    0 0
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
    BF3? Apparently no one at GR played Blackwater
    0 0
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
    Blackwater Park? I still play that in my car sometimes!
    0 0
  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
    Dead Space 2 was the best of these, hands down
    0 0
  • friggest
    friggest
    Joined: Mar 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
    Wait wait wait...Nick Tan is a journalist?
    0 0
  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
    I'm not sure about that, but he DOES play one on the Internet.
    0 0
  • Nick_Tan
    Nick_Tan
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
    Only on bad days... very, very bad days.
    0 0
  • Bretimus_v2
    Bretimus_v2
    Joined: Jan 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
    I love this game and I hate everyone who plays it. TEAMWORK, DO YOU HAVE IT?!?
    0 0
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2011 at 2:27 am
    Time to start up a GR BF3 clan, Bret.
    0 0
  • Capt_Dastardly
    Capt_Dastardly
    Joined: Sep 2011
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2011 at 3:02 am
    If you have played gears 1 you have played gears 2 & 3. If you played dead space you have played dead space 2. If you have played crysis... well you get where im going with this.
    If you have played COD4, you have played every cod since then and if u have played BF:BC you have played every DICE shooter including MoH
    For me Gears got this one, if ur not an online gamer BF3 offers you nothing
    0 0
  • StickyGreenGamer
    StickyGreenGamer
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2011 at 7:31 am
    I concur with the Captain. BF3 should be in the running for multiplayer GOTY, no doubt. But too many people have judged it as if the single-player campaign doesn't even exist. For that reason, one of the others should have won. Crysis 2 was a bit hefty to get involved with, but was still fun, though I never tried the online. GoW3, from what I've read, seemed quite good on both ends of the spectrum. And MW3, I disagree vehemently with the score it received. Felt that you guys downgraded it simply on the basis that it was a CoD game, even though it offered a much more complete package than BF did. I have to disagree with this pick, folks.
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  • GuerillaMatzilla
    GuerillaMatzilla
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 pm
    Crysis 2 was a lot of fun for how mobile you were + all your suit abilities and I enjoyed the multi-player for quite a while. Unfortunately it remained difficult for Crysis 2 to live up to Crysis 1 when so many elements were down-graded for console and the multi-player servers were losing population. I'd assume its worse now but I don't know.
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  • GuerillaMatzilla
    GuerillaMatzilla
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Dec 23rd, 2011 at 10:11 pm
    I agree with Battlefield. I preferred CoD over Battlfield until I got pretty bored with BLOPS and bought Bad Company 2 for the second time. Didn't appreciate it the first.
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