DICE has finally pinned down the release date of the next installment of the Battlefield series.

A lil' taste of the action

Revealed at EA's E3 press briefing earlier, DICE has revealed that Battlefield 3 will be released  on October 25, 2011, with a multi-platform open beta scheduled in September.

“We are proud to finally open the curtains and reveal Battlefield 3. The core development team has been together since 2005. We’ve grown together, taken some knocks together and now, we’re ready to take first person shooters to a whole new level, together,” said Patrick Bach, Executive Producer. “Like so many gamers out there, we’ve had some pretty wild ideas about what we’d want to see in a shooter. Until now, it was all just fantasy. But with Frostbite 2, even our most far-reaching ideas are becoming a reality.  This is the game we’ve always wanted to create.”

The game is now being showcased at E3 in the EA booth. It includes a single player campaign which features two new playable characters, Dmitri “Dima” Mayakovsky, a Russian undercover agent, who "must fight his way from the Paris Stock Exchange through the crowded city streets in a desperate attempt to stop PLR operatives from detonating a dirty bomb in the heart of Paris" and Jonathan “Jono” Miller, a Marine Corporal from America’s heartland, who is "deployed to the barren dustbowl of the Tehran desert to engage PLR forces." The popular Battlefield multiplayer mode ‘Rush’ is also back and playable on PC in the EA booth.

In case you haven't reserved your copies yet, EA recently announced a Limited Edition package for the game. It includes a plenthora of in game goodies and the Back to Karkand digital expansion pack which pays tribute to Battlefield fans by featuring four of the most beloved maps from Battlefield 2, now boldly re-mastered using Frostbite 2.

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