Battlefield 3/Trivia

• Banned in Iran: As of November 2011, Iran has officially banned the game there. Not only that, but Iranian gamers have made a petition to let EA/DICE apologize over the game's content.
• Dueling Games: Explicit setup and marketed by Electronic Arts to take on Call of Duty. The Tagline for Battlefield 3 is "Above and Beyond the Call".
  • Also, BF3 is an opportunity for EA to tout its new Origin online service, which is a pretty blatant attempt to compete with Valve's Steam service.
  • There are also parallels between Battlelog and Call of Duty Elite. Both are game-centric social networks, with features such as clan organization and stat tracking. There's even Battlefield Premium, which is like Call of Duty Elite Premium.
  • The upcoming Close Quarters DLC make it appears that they are really going to take the fight up close to Modern Warfare 3, since Battlefield series usually focuses on very large maps and long range warfare as opposed to Call of Duty series which focuses on smaller maps. The Close Quarters DLC, as the name suggest, will focus on indoor fights in tightly packed places, like most Modern Warfare series are.
• Fan Nickname: For the various multi-player levels in the game:
  • Nosehair Canals for Noshahr Canals.
  • Capsicum Border for Caspian Border.
  • Operation Meatgrinder for Operation Metro.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Glenn Morshower who played Aaron Pierce, Presidential Bodyguard on 24 is one of the government agents sent to investigate Blackburn's story.
  • Roy Mustang's the voice you hear commanding an Abrams tank column in Iran.
  • A bit of an odd case, as Dima's specifically modeled after but not played by actor/mixed martial artist Oleg Taktarov, known for playing Nikolai in Predators.
• Name's the Same: Jennifer Hawkins is the name of an Australian model who won Miss World 2004.
• Shout-Out / Defictionalization: A tiny, out of the way newspaper texture in Strike at Karkand has the header for 4chan's video game board on it, along with "Why haven't you got a girlfriend yet" (a typical /v/ post) underneath. For about a week after this was discovered, /v/ had that exact text on the top of every page.
• What Could Have Been: Very early rumored reports for 3 had 40 on 40 player teams, used the Bad Company engine, actual character customization (like choosing camo patterns and helmet types), and bringing back pilotable large naval vessels (only present in 1942).