User blog comment:LITE992/No Civilians Will Die in Battlefield 3/@comment-1990578-20110902042942

I don't even see why anyone's making a big deal over not being able to kill civilians. If anything, DICE is trying to look good to the press by saying this due to the "No Russian" fiasco with MW2. I personally wouldn't care either way.

It's good that they won't have civilians able to be killed IMO, since that is a horrible side effect of urban warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, in non-combat areas (i.e. player is restricted from using all weapons) like the marketplace from the Fault Line series, civilians would make the area more lively.