User blog comment:Pedro9basket/Battlefield 3 Reviews released/@comment-72.91.230.18-20111030031926/@comment-28584497-20111103001147

Loyalists and ultranationalists? Bro, there are only the Russian paras, no more no less. And the blade Dima uses is nothing like Reznov's machete, trust me.

All of those elements aren't exclusive to CoD by any measure, either. Read any military fiction, and you'll see what I mean.

And flashbacks have been in use since at least the Oddessey.