Battlefield 3 is one of the finest looking first person shooters released in the last year. In campaign mode, players take on the personas of several military roles; a USMC recon Marine, an F-18 systems officer, an M1A2 Abrams tank operator, and a SPETSNAZ operative. The campaign takes place at various locations, from Iran to New York, and follows the story of Sergeant Blackburn and later, Dimitri Mayakovsky.
We used a ‘medium' image quality setting to get smooth frame rates throughout the test environment. The game was perfectly smooth, but higher settings placed too much of a load on the discrete graphics card and the frame rate would suffer.