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Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is the first DLC expansion pack for Battlefield 3. Back to Karkand expansion pack remasters four of the classic Battlefield 2 multiplayer maps. Leveraging Frostbite 2 game engine…

88 6 December 2011

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is a shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 6 December 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is a shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2011. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Battlefield 3 is a 2011 first-person shooter game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the twelfth installment in the Battlefield series and a sequel to Battlefield 2 (2005). The game was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in October 2011. The campaign takes place in various locations and follows the stories of two characters, Henry Blackburn, a U.S. Marine and Dimitri Mayakovsky, a Spetsnaz GRU operative.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are warfare.

How it was received

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand launched on 6 December 2011, within three weeks of Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Saints Row: The Third. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Saints Row: The Third.

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When did Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand come out?
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand was released on 6 December 2011 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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