User blog comment:Redkite/Battlefield 3: Idea of another team in a later DLC/@comment-1990578-20120627194056

I'd love to see this, but frankly, I don't think it will ever happen in BF3's lifetime. The game, to my belief, was rushed to come out before MW3. I feel it could have used another few months. Just look at BF2. It was born out of Desert Combat, a mod for 1942, and it had multiple factions fighting the war, mainly being NATO vs China and the MEC. Where the fuck did China and the MEC go, and why did Russia take their place?

DICE took too much influence from CoD and their US/UK vs Russia War in the Modern Warfare games and decided to go with a "me too!" approach. So now we have the US and Russia battling over France and Iran, rather than the French taking up arms against their Russian invaders or the Iranians fighting off their American agressors.

And the campaign, co-op, and the novel all tell different stories about what happens with the nuke in Paris (going off-topic here, but I feel it's relevant). In the book, the nuke was in a printer shipped to Dima's son in the EURONEXT building by Solomon, and Dima manages to defuse it. In co-op, Abdul Rahman is taken out before he can set it off by the two players, and in the campaign, the thing goes off when Kiril and Dima find the PLR guy they were chasing was a decoy.

And then multiplayer happens. Why the fuck would anyone invade a city that just got nuked, or did that not really happen? And why is the EURONEXT building in like four different locations? Some continuity would be nice, instead of four different recounts of a war... I get it's a game and that the novel was meant to be separate, but still, really? It doesn't make it easy on our end to figure out what really happened story-wise.