We hope you areready to go Back to Karkand, as we are releasing our first Battlefield 3expansion pack Tuesday, December 6th (giving you a one week early accessexclusively on PlayStation 3)!

Battlefield 3: Backto Karkand is a huge expansion pack featuring four legendary Battlefield mapsreimagined in the Frostbite 2 engine. Three new vehicles (the VSTOL fighterjet, Desert Buggy, and an APC), ten new weapons that you can bring back to thebase game, and a new layer of persistence with our all-new Assignments makethis a must-have for any Battlefield fan.

Our four new mapsare Wake Island, Sharqi Peninsula, Gulf of Oman, and Strike at Karkand. Overthe years these maps have been played billionsof times and now they’ve been reimagined with the power of the Frostbite 2engine. To top it off, we’re taking the level of destruction to the next levelas well – entire huge portions of these maps can be razed to the ground.

We’re alsointroducing the Assignments system. For example, to complete the “Let it Rain” assignment players must score 20kills with Light Machine Guns and two mortar kills. When you have met therequirements, you will unlock a new Back to Karkand weapon (with a matching setof dog tags) to use in Back to Karkand andthe original Battlefield 3 maps, which will mix in server rotation. You willalso unlock the next Assignment in the series, the new Creeping DeathAssignment.

We hope that you're as excited as we are to release our fist expansion. There's even more great content planned for the future, so stay tuned!

And before we go,here are the five new Trophies you can hunt in Back to Karkand:

Complete Warrior (Silver)
Get a kill with thefollowing weapons in a single life: Rifle, Jet, Tank

Third Tour (Bronze)
Get a kill with the new APC, Desert Buggy, and STOVL fighter jet

Gunslinger (Bronze)
Get 10 kills withall B2K weapons

Like a Boss! (Silver)
Get a kill with the skidloader

Jaws (Bronze)
Take a swim in the pool at theOman hotel

We hope you enjoyedthis look at our first expansion pack for Battlefield 3. Let us know what youthink about Back to Karkand in the Battlelog forums.

If you are a Battlefield 3 Limited Editionowner, you are entitled to this entire expansion pack at no extra charge andyou can get it from the in-game store or the PlayStation Store. Otherwise, youcan buy it for $14.99, from the game’s in-game store or from the PlayStationStore. Every future expansion pack for Battlefield 3 will also be available oneweek early exclusively on PlayStation 3, just like Back to Karkand.




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