For the past couple of months I’ve been hooked on DICE’s latest game, Battlefield 3 (BF3). I was a huge fan of Battlefield 1942 so I knew that I would love BF3 right off the bat.

BF3 is the best FPS I’ve ever played. Between BF1942 and BF3, I played a lot of FPS games but most of them were short-lived. One exception is TF2, which I played a lot until it went crazy with all the hats, crafting and micro-transactions.

One of BF3’s great new features is “Battlelog”, which is EA’s social platform for BF3 players. The best part about Battlelog is its stat-tracking. Through Battlelog you can check your kill:death ratio, weapon stats, unlocks, awards, and reports of past rounds. I find myself logging into Battlelog after rounds to see how I did, and whether or not I’m about to unlock something.

As for the actual gameplay, what makes BF3 so awesome is its emphasis on teamwork. This was made even more true when I was one day recruited by a platoon called N7 Spectres. I was asked to join when I was having a pretty sweet game on Noshahr Canals. I was a little worried at first because I thought that being in a platoon meant daily practices and getting super-pissed at one another for messing up, but man, how wrong I was. N7 Spectres is a group of some of the coolest, friendliest and most importantly skilled players, and it makes playing BF3 even more fun.

N7 Spectre’s founder, eGessDub, posts some pretty sweet gameplay videos on his Youtube channel here. Yesterday eGessDub posted a game with me in it! It’s pretty rad to re-experience the match from another person’s perspective.

Knifing people in BF3 is seriously a metagame, and it’s one of my favourite aspects of the game. When you perform a knife attack from behind an enemy, you go into this wicked animation where you grab your enemy’s dog tag and stab him in the heart/throat. Knifing can be pretty difficult though, as it makes you vulnerable to nearby enemies, and the knife animation doesn’t kick in all the time (it’s a little buggy IMO). This makes performing a knife kill all the more satisfying.

This has developed into an unhealthy addiction for me, as I’ll go out of my way to run behind an enemy and snatch his dog tag. Within Battlelog, there’s a section to see all of the stolen dog tags, and it has become my very own trophy room like in the movie Predators. The other week I lucked out and stole a dog tag from a DICE developer.

If you play Battlefield 3, you can find me on Battlelog here. Hit me up if you want to play some rounds :). If you don’t have BF3 yet, go get it NOW!!