How to Do Multiplayer the Right Way

Battlefield 3 is a great game, no doubt. The multiplayer is great, the engine it’s running on is future technology, and besides a few problems with back end EA problems, everything is smooth and there’s hours of fun to be had.

Oh, there’s also a single player experience, but it’s pretty universally panned. People said it was slapped on for the sake of having a single player campaign, basically an un-original answer to the campaigns in Call of Duty, even ripping the same narrative structure from Black Ops. In the end, the singleplayer actually hurt the game, drawing unnecessary distractions for what is a great game in multiplayer. So there’s really just one question: do games like Battlefield 3, and other multiplayer-focused games, need a single player campaign?