Top 10 PC games at E3

9. Battlefield 3

Battlefield is often portrayed as the thinking man’s multiplayer shooter – in contrast at least to big rival Modern Warfare (see below). Previous iterations of the main series passed-up any serious single-player action for a dedicated multi-player scrap with a plethora of vehicles and maps that went well beyond being simple environments – such as the assault off the carrier in the original game.

After a couple of offshoots, most recently Bad Company 2, the main series is back and its got a big cinematic single-player campaign. Blending the gung-ho antics of Call of Duty with the grittier and more realistic feel of TV show Generation Kill, this looks to be an incredibly capable attempt to knock Call of Duty of its pedestal.

After a recent knock-out 12-minute gameplay trailer, we can’t wait to get hands-on with this on the show floor.

Battlefield adds a chunky single-player campaign to its usually excellent multi-player mayhem

10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Our key concern for Modern warfare 3 isn’t the much-publicised change in management at developer Infinity Ward, but rather that the game is bound to be designed around the technical limitations of the current bbatch of aging console hardware. However powerful your PC may be, and it will no doubt look very pretty on current hardware, the developers may be finding that increasing the scope and breadth of the gameplay is simply impossible when exactly the same single-player experience has to work the 360 and PS3.

All that aside, we still can’t wait to see what new maps, weapons and perks the developers come up with, we’d happily leave the single player to one side permanently if the multiplayer could be released today. The ongoing lack of proper dedicated servers, unless you want to rent your own, is an issue – but for simple, satisfying gunplay with a great advancement system MW3 will be hard to beat.

Can the new management at Infinity Ward push Modern Warfare any further?