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More Battlefield 3 Maps Detailed

Posted on Monday, October 17 @ 16:14:19 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Let's jump right in! Here are the remaining multiplayer maps you'll find stored away on the Battlefield 3 disc when you pick it up on Xbox 360, PS3, or PC on October 25th.

Working Title: Bazaar
MP001
All Game Modes Supported
"Tight Urban Combat"
Design Thoughts: We knew we wanted to do something very urban in the city center of Tehran. The fiction has you coming in two weeks after fighting started, so the tight and narrowly built city has a great deal of destruction already when you spawn into the game. Grand Bazaar is a classically mirrored map where both sides have very similar pathways, sideways, and possibilities to traverse heights to get a better view of the action. It’s a very short range close quarter combat map where shotguns tend to be favored.

Working Title: Forest
MP007
All Game Modes Supported
"Vehicle Warfare in Large Valley"
Design Thoughts: Caspian Border was meant to encapsulate the classic Battlefield all-out vehicle warfare gameplay, and also to be a lush and green contrast to the more urban and desert maps in Battlefield 3. The border control splitting the map in two was introduced to add an interesting break both visually and gameplay wise in the otherwise beautiful and open landscape. Caspian Border is one of the obvious map choices if you are after the full vehicle experience, as base distances are generally too long to cover by foot. Pretty much every type of vehicle is available in this map.

Working Title: Paris
MP011
All Game Modes Supported
"Vehicle/Infantry Combat in Downtown Paris"
Design Thoughts: Seine Crossing has two sections of Paris split in the middle by the river Seine. Seine Crossing has a number of larger roads for vehicles to patrol, while infantry can sneak through tight alleyways and climb staircases to reach second or third levels inside buildings to reach a better tactical position – unless the enemy takes down the building facades. The final M-COM stations in Rush are placed inside a bank building, which is the largest indoor environments of this map and forces the attackers to slightly change tactics.

Working Title: Canals
MP017
All Game Modes Supported
"Mixed Combat in Industrial Setting"
Design Thoughts: When we set out to do Noshahr Canals, we wanted to contrast the urban and rural with something more industrial. So we set Noshahr Canals up as an industrial harbor, featuring a mix of infantry, land vehicle, and boat gameplay. The attackers in Rush start out on an carrier ship and can reach the beachhead by amphibious vehicles, boats, and helicopters. All of the bases on the map have an industrial theme but still have different styles, like a train yard, dry dock, or airfield. Compared with the larger vehicle maps in the game, this allows for tighter infantry combat.

Working Title: Kharg
MP018
All Game Modes Supported
"Amphibious Assault"
Design Thoughts: Kharg Island is our second map with boat gameplay. Thematically it’s representing an assault against Kharg island in the Persian sea, an industrialized island not far from the Iranian coast. The map is slightly more focused on vehicles with longer distance between flags than for example Noshahar Canals. In the Rush game mode, the beach assault begins on the coastline with a well-defended beach you need to break through to create a beachhead for further attacks on the island, before it opens up wider in the later part of the map.

Related Games: Battlefield 3

Tags: Battlefield, EA, DICE