Battlefield 3 New Gameplay Video 720p HD 30.03.2011 (Fault Line Episode 3)

Observations:
-Looks sorta scripted, I hope its not as bad as BLOPS or Homefront where you simply cannot lose.  Most of us aren't some mom's basement dwelling forever alones that need constant reassurance of our "Pro gamer" status to require the guaranteed positive reinforcement of a game completely on rails that refuses to let us fail.

-Game play is cookie cutter FPS, aim down the sight, see an X an it means you are killing something.  This isn't bad, getting back basics is good.  No more kill streak douchebaggery and MW kit style BS

-More actual game play footage than the last two videos combined and not cut up into 1/2 second chunks.

-With 64 players the game play should be epic, notice the large number of players streaming around. 128 players on a large map would be epic.

-Graphics are meh, at first glance it is a huge upgrade to BF2, I hope its really real DX11 and pushes graphics hardware just like Crysis.  This limiting games to DX7 hardware for the console kiddies is BS.

A lot can/has to be said for art direction. Like Crysis2, even though it's running on DX9, I think it looks wonderful (though not as good as it could) due to the art direction. Kinda like Resident Evil 4. Sure, it's a Gamecube game, but when it came out it trumped nearly everything out at the time due to the way everything was implemented.

Remember that DICE has gone on the record and stated the BF3 is a pc game first, console second. They seem to be pretty good about this stuff, so it might be worth giving them the benefit of the doubt.