Sometimes there are pivotal clips made by the fans which are so good, they make the community go wow. Well produced enough to have people outside the genre go “That’s a good shot”, They will be the thing you may go to see what the game was like years latter when you feel a nostalgia hit.

It seems like I have missed not one, but two of these, and would like to share them with you. 3D Rendered models have a professional intro, and use of twixtor lets him pace the gameplay to the music without being obtrusive like many of the over the top effects you would typically see in a Call of Duty frag montage.

Here there are.

Full Metal 3

If you have no time to watch this, the monumental clip is the Grand Bazaar suprise shot at 5:55. It should be hard to not grin from it.

Full Metal 4

It’s not a First person shooter, it is not even in real time, but this trailer about boats and naval warfare had me laughing and dwatching it again a few times.

See if it floats your boat as well (oh dear)

Here is a gameplay reveal. I have not watched it yet, but I have it buffering in mighty 1080p before I start playing it. It is 17 Minutes long, and from a single player campaign. Consensus is that the clip looks amazing, with a squad helping you out appearing to give you more open fighting in it. Other things that have been noted include fantastic explosions, and a dual sighted gun (iron sights and a red dot scope), an interesting thing.

If there is one suggestion though – Don’t be like the commenters on youtube, crying that it’s not realistic because it does not have jumping in the vehicle animations. Admit it – you would go crazy if there was a reasonable delay getting in the way of you having fun.

Just another Battlefield 3 montage… This one features a stunning selection of RPG to Air shots, along with Teamdeathmatch sniping action with the L96 gun. The synching of music is done very well – regardless of if you like the modern use of music.

It’s also rewarding to see the snipers on the higher level of Noshar Canals get slaughtered – a great clip!

It seems with Battlefield 3 being out for a year now, there are more refined videos coming out. Machinima is usually the longest production time, due to the game needing modifications or other post production methods being added to it.

According to their bio, this has been in production since september 2012, and has over 500 dialogue lines. Impressive!

This video, is listed as 34:27 long. Already that’s the longest BF3 Machinima.

… For premium players!

You would have previously downloaded a ~6gigabyte patch, which is now accompanied by a 4.2 Gig update. To make sense of it, it appears the second update contains just the maps. .The previous 6 gig update patches previously existing content in the game, which means two gig is added in total (plus whatever the result is from this second update..)

If this is the final update for Battlefield 3, we may have the largest game ever made – It will come in at approx 36 Gigabytes, installed. Impressive!

To help you get pumped while downloading like I am, check out this amazing footage of midair motorcycle RPG action:

I could not let this video pass – a sample clip showing a dogfight from the perspective of in the cockpit of a Jet flying around. With Freecam like this, it is easy to see details you frequently miss yourself.

There are plenty of these videos cropping up though. For example, take a look at this fantastic clip making use of all of the ingame assets, and clever editing to show the AC-130 as well as some dogfighting action.

With footage around the corner for Endgame, these are a suitable way to get yourself pumped!

A large reason for the sharp decline in competitive gaming for Battlefield 3 has been it’s lack of support for the players. Servers are difficult to organize, with less control of them.

Part of Starcraft 2′s incredible uptake is that a social scene was easily formed around the replays available – both live and recorded matches were very easy to watch.

Battlefield 3 has lacked this and suffered greatly due to it. I personally know that when I try out other games, competitive features and social measures are coming together as a refreshing thing to have.

Before I start telling you to go get off my lawn, Check out this FreeCamera promotional video made by the incredibly talented modders Hattiwatti and Engineerisaac, featuring a new look on a battlefield you may have ran, driven and flown across many times before.

This video was made on an unranked server. This means Punkbuster was disabled, and it was not recording statistics of the players. This is needed due to the fact that DICE have no support to do these neat things – It has been patched into the game by modifying files and other attributes. The developers are that scared about the freecam modification at the moment, that they have locked down access to be on a request basis – to prevent DICE patching out the code in the upcoming patches.

The website to sign up and request a (free) key to download the application

http://www.bf3cam.com

I have applied for this myself, but have not got a key or access to the program. Fingers crossed that will change the next time they open up access to it!

Some people will be chanting “about time!”, however the end game expansion which is coming out soon will have Air Superiority as a game mode.

This will mean that instead of being on the ground, all of the players will entirely be in jets, fighting around what looks like large blimps and windmill farms.

Layout looks like it can be a lot of fun.

Happy Australia day! To celebrate, try these out to get you in the mood.

This was also spotted on someone writing on their outgoing passenger card, there wasn’t enough room, so..