According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.
A great looking game which runs fantastic on all the high end AMD graphics cards. The HIS 7970 X Turbo 3GB IceQ X2 has no problems maintaining a >100 fps average, right behind the Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition.