DICE Shed Details on Battlefield 3’s Co-Op Mode

DICE confirmed a co-op mode for their shooter Battlefield 3 during their presentation at EA's press conference at gamescom. They have now delivered new details on the game's mode.

Tommy Rydling, junior product manager at DICE, said to the PlayStation Blog on the game's co-op campaign:

We designed co-op to be the perfect blend between the strong narrative from single player and the open-ended action from multiplayer. We are fusing the replayability of multiplayer with a pick up-and-play mentality to create a totally new flavor of Battlefield.

For the most part, the missions in the co-op campaign are asymmetric. This means that one mission can have you piloting a helicopter while your friend is the gunner, for example. Other situations have one player disarming a bomb and the other one defending him. Or (as you could see in our press conference playthrough at gamescom) you can do tandem kills to avoid detection. There are also other mechanics requiring teamwork, such as spotting enemies to make large firefights easier, or the essential concept of reviving one another to avoid ending up at the game over screen.

He continued:

The co-op missions in Battlefield 3 all take place in the same world as the single-player campaign, and follow a unique series of events that lead up to an explosive finish. Players in co-op will take the role of soldiers that are not tied to any one particular branch of the Armed Forces. This is an intentional design decision to allow for a vast variety in gameplay in the different co-op missions.

A co-op campaign in Battlefield 3 is certainly one aspect which gamers should look forward to if the live demo at gamescom was anything to go by. Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, meanwhile, only sports a co-op mode in the form of Spec Ops.

Battlefield 3 releases on October 25th, 2011, in North America and three days later in Europe.