Battlefield 3

Frostbite destruction plus Premium sold the large-scale combined-arms shooter as a subscription-like product.

Released 2011 Developer DICE Publisher Electronic Arts Platform PC Genre First-person shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie Website ea.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Battlefield 3 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Character Classes ~~1981~~High-Fidelity Vehicle Physics ~~1997~~Destructible Geometry ~~2001~~Persistent Multiplayer Progression ~~2007~~Season Pass Bundle ~~2011~~

The Battlefield series in this dataset

2002

Battlefield 1942 ~~2002~~

2010

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ~~2010~~

2011

Battlefield 3 ~~this page~~

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