Our Battlefield 3 Review: Why We're Bursting It Up, And Because Console's Forthcoming Late

Yes, reviews . We have received from EA the Personal Computer chronicle of the diversion and, after conference reports about the differences between the Personal Computer and console SKUs -- together with headlines of a day-one vegetable patch for console versions of the pretension -- we've motionless to examination the two individually.

Our examination of the Personal Computer chronicle -- which, notwithstanding reports of day-one NVIDIA and ATI motorist updates, our reviewer has running in single-player at limit graphical settings at 60 fps -- will go live next Monday sunrise at 3 a.m. ET. We'll be personification on in isolation multiplayer servers that EA has set up for early reviewers, giving us plenty time to fool around by the title's promotion and online multiplayer offerings before this embargo.

Our skeleton is to console chronicle of the diversion are a small reduction iron-clad -- you expect we'll take the diversion on Monday, even though it won't be in any reviewable state until you obtain our hands on its "day-one" patch. We're undecided either this refurbish will go live on Monday or Tuesday, but you won't be able to unequivocally puncture in until it's been obtained, that will pull our examination back to the center of next week -- again, without a definite date is to update, you can't establish a definite date is to review.

To my knowledge, we've never broken up up not similar SKUs of a diversion similar to this -- you of course haven't during my time as Reviews Editor -- but in a box similar to this, the preference is rather out of our hands. The two reviews might finish up being entirely identical, as the two versions of the diversion might finish up being entirely identical. They might be different. They might have not similar star ratings , if those differences excellence a re-evaluation of our bottom line. It's uncharted territory, and you hope we'll have your calm as you try it.

We would never run a examination for a chronicle of a diversion that wasn't deputy of the chronicle that you, our dear readers and video diversion consumers, would be spending your hard-earned allowance on. Similarly, you wouldn't run a examination for a diversion that you hadn't outlayed sufficient time with to see all it has to offer its purchasers and players. This plan, whilst unorthodox, is the usually way to make sure you perform both of these two mandate whilst still delivering our examination in a timely manner.