User blog comment:Bovell/Battlefield 3 maps to be smaller on consoles, news on player fly-zones/@comment-1916935-20110329232549/@comment-28584497-20110330183734

Nemo, the melee system in nearly all shooters since at least 1999 has consisted of a single, one or two-hit-kill attack, either with the butt end of the weapon or a knife.

The melee idea is more in the vein of an RPG's melee system, a type which few shooters have ever adopted. Something similar, but not quite the same, is KZ3's melee system.