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Battlefield 3: Armored Kill is live now exclusively for Battlefield 3 Premium members on PS3!

NOTE FOR PS3 PREMIUM MEMBERS: Currently, your copy of Armored Kill is available on PlayStation Store but not in the in-game store. We are investigating this matter and should have it up in the in-game store eventually. In the meantime, download your expansion pack on PlayStation Store.

To celebrate the launch, we proudly present our new gameplay trailer, featuring never before seen footage from all four maps in Armored Kill, from the snow-capped Alborz Mountains to the vastness that is Bandar Desert — the biggest map in Battlefield history.
Check out the Armored Kill Launch Trailer below.




Armored Kill is included with Battlefield 3 Premium and features four new maps with a focus on all-out vehicle warfare. It also contains six new vehicles with 20 new unlocks, the new game modeTank Superiority, new Assignments, and more. Learn more about Armored Kill here.
Check out these in-depth Armored Kill blog posts we published earlier (will open in a new tab):
Creating Bandar Desert, our biggest Battlefield map yet
Taking terrain to new heights in Armored Kill
Rolling Thunder:...[Read on]

Coming in North America on September 11 and in Europe on September 13, the Battlefield 3 Premium Edition is the ultimate Battlefield experience! Combining the original Battlefield 3 game, all Battlefield 3 Premium content including five themed digital expansion packs, and a Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Head-Start Kit that is custom-designed to help jump start players who are new to multiplayer by automatically unlocking 15 different weapons, gadgets and vehicle upgrades. Battlefield 3 Premium Edition delivers more than 25 maps, over 70 weapons and vehicles and dozens of unlocks and upgrades, making it the perfect entry point into one of the top shooter games of this generation. At $69.99 it's an unbeatable value compared to purchasing all this great content individually at a cost of well over $100.

And don't forget, Battlefield 3 Premium members will get 2 weeks early access to Armored Kill as well as Battlefield 3: Aftermath coming this December and Battlefield 3: End Game coming in March of 2013.

Pushing the quality
Due to the large expanses of the four new Armored Kill levels, players tend to favour cover, and in this case that cover is generally some kind of natural formation within the environment. We strived to increase the detail of these elements across the board to make the environments as a key feature of the pack really shine. Higher resolution terrain and vegetation textures, more detail in organic objects such as tree trunks and higher density of objects scattering the landscape are just some of the points we focused on to really push the quality bar throughout the entirety of Armored Kill.One of the great features of the Frostbite 2 engine is the ability to scatter hundreds of thousands of objects across the landscape to accentuate each terrain surface, naturally filling it with grass, stones, twigs, trash and anything else to give the surface of the landscape volume. This approach worked great for Battlefield 3, but for Armored Kill we wanted to increase the fidelity of these details even further. Up close and prone you will see higher density of scattered objects including grass, hundreds of small stones, and in one particular case the glittering...[Read on]