Battlefield 3™

Team-based military FPS with vehicles and destructible multiplayer battlefields

DICE · Published by Electronic Arts · Released Jun 11, 2020

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 72% of 19K
Recent reviews: Mostly Positive; 78% of 205 in 30 days
Playing now: 85; right now
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 1 year ago; Jul 18, 2025

What is Battlefield 3™?

A first-person military shooter with a single-player campaign and class-based online PvP across 29 maps. In multiplayer, you fight as Assault, Engineer, Support, or Recon, using weapons and gadgets while driving tanks, buggies, helicopters, and jets through destructible environments.

For you if...

+you like team-based FPS matches with distinct combat roles
+you want infantry combat, vehicles, and destructible maps
+you also want a short single-player military campaign

Not for you if...

−you want only a long single-player campaign
−you dislike competitive online PvP

What players say

72% of 19,411 reviews are positive · 78% of 205 in the last 30 days

Players praise the gunplay, map layouts, class roles, vehicle combat, and campaign presentation. The dominant current complaint is that the EA app and browser-based Battlelog cause activation loops and launch failures that can block both multiplayer and the campaign; players also report a sparse multiplayer population.

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Battlefield 3™ system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
Graphics: Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance) Graphics card (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)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 20 GB available space
DirectX: Version 10

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
Third-party account: EA Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 34
Steam features: Trading cards
Age rating: 17+