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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now The Fantastic Four: First Steps Donkey Kong Bananza Switch 2 Starter Pack Recommended reading Battlefield 6 has reportedly cost over $400 million to make and led to developers taking up to 9 months off due to burnout Battlefield 6 dataminer shows evidence the FPS is bringing back 2 series mainstays: a dam-busting campaign mission and a battle royale mode Third Person Shooters As calls for Star Wars Battlefront 3 grow stronger, an ex-Pandemic dev explains why the original games never got a third entry: "We started working on it and then negotiations just didn’t take off" EA says "it hasn't always" understood what Battlefield players want, but the response to the new entry has "far exceeded our expectations" after "thousands of hours" of playtests The 10 best Battlefield games of all-time An hour of Battlefield 6 has leaked, and I'm trying to contain my hype but even a former producer thinks it looks like Bad Company 2 Testing lab for Battlefield 6 takes its "first big L" as it removes weapon restrictions, meaning your medics might be sitting behind you sniping instead of healing on the front lines Battlefield 3 Battlefield 3 was originally "more of an MMO" before the Bad Company 2 devs took over, but they made good use of the "leftover" assets to help build the campaign Dustin Bailey 23 July 2025 Battlefield 3 could've been very different When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: DICE) Battlefield 3's campaign earned a mixed response at launch, but over a decade later it's proven a nexus for nostalgia over the FPS campaigns of the Xbox 360 era, with extensive praise for the single-player mode going viral earlier this year. As it turns out, some of those campaign missions were built from the bones of a very different Battlefield 3 - one that would've been more like an MMO than a traditional FPS. That's according to DICE veteran David Goldfarb, speaking during an interview with NoClip. Goldfarb worked on the campaign for both Bad Company and its sequel, and during the latter's production, he says much of the studio was working on "the big project," which would have been "a very different BF3." As Goldfarb puts it, this version of Battlefield 3 was "more of an MMO, really." Details on what the game would've looked like are light, and a struggle to figure out how a Battlefield MMO would work might be why the project was ultimately killed. Codenamed Venice, the project was DICE's "main project for a number of years," according to NoClip, but it "never really found stable design ground and was eventually sunset." You may like Battlefield 6 has reportedly cost over $400 million to make and led to developers taking up to 9 months off due to burnout Battlefield 6 dataminer shows evidence the FPS is bringing back 2 series mainstays: a dam-busting campaign mission and a battle royale mode As calls for Star Wars Battlefront 3 grow stronger, an ex-Pandemic dev explains why the original games never got a third entry: "We started working on it and then negotiations just didn’t take off" The Story Behind Battlefield 3's Divisive Campaign - Noclip - YouTube Once that Battlefield 3 was cancelled, the leads of the Bad Company 2 team were brought in to help build a more traditional sequel, with single-player, co-op, and multiplayer aimed at competing against Call of Duty. Goldfarb would take the lead of the single-player campaign, and while the Battlefield 3 we eventually got was effectively a whole new game, the MMO version did offer some enticing raw materials. Goldfarb says the team "had a bunch of assets that were left over from [Project] Venice. One of them was Paris. So it was like, 'What are we gonna do with Paris?' And then... 'Well, we clearly need to make a [single-player] mission in Paris.'" That eventually became the Comrades mission, with the Russian Spetsnaz in Paris. "It's gotta be in Russian," Goldfarb argued once the story of the level was set. "Not gonna do some fucking bullshit. The whole mission's gotta be in Russian." If it seems like Battlefield 6 has been a long time coming, just remember that the road of game development has never been without its bumps. That's as true in 2025 as it was in 2011. 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