Battlefield 3 is a 2011 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is a direct sequel to 2005’s Battlefield 2.
In Battlefield 3’s campaign, players take on the personas of several military roles: a U.S. Marine, an F/A-18F Super Hornet weapon systems officer, an M1A2 Abrams tank operator, and a Spetsnaz GRU operative. The campaign takes place in various locations and follows the stories of two characters, Henry Blackburn and Dimitri Mayakovsky.
The game sold 5 million copies in its first week of release, and received mostly positive reviews. The game’s sequel, Battlefield 4, was released in 2013.
System requirements
Minimum Configuration Hardware:
CPU: 2 GHz DUAL CORE (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz)
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 2 GB
VIDEO CARD: (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon HD 3870 or higher performance)(NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series, with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 512 MB
PIXEL SHADER: 4.0 (ATI 4.1)
VERTEX SHADER: 4.0 (ATI 4.1)
OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) 32-bit
FREE DISK SPACE: 20 GB
SOUND CARD: Yes
Recommended Configuration Hardware:
CPU: QUAD-CORE
RAM: 4 GB
VIDEO CARD: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon HD 6950)
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 1 GB
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
OS: Windows 7 64-Bit
FREE DISK SPACE: 20 GB
SOUND CARD: Yes