Gallery: We came, we played, we paintballed - Atomic's Battlefield 3 game night was awesome (and bruising) fun.
I think we went through about 11,000 paintball pellets last Thursday, which is a fun time by anyone's reckoning.
However, the paintball was a the sideline event - the main attraction at our latest Atomic gaming night was letting 32 lucky readers get to grips with the singleplayer campaign in the upcoming Battlefield 3, and if the night was anything to go by, the game's going to be big. The opening levels show off a perfect mix of BF3 gameplay, from infantry action to jet missions and tank battles, and despite the awkwardness of dedicated PC-gamers flailing about with controllers, pretty much everyone walked away impressed.
The event was held out possibly my new favourite paintball venue, Sydney Indoor Paintball at Peakhurst. It's a single, indoor field screened by mesh netting so onlookers are (mostly) safe. Above the action is a great little ready room where we had three PS3s, three Xboxes, and the bar setup. While early arrivals got to play a bit of the game (levels two, three and four, to be precise - level one is still verboten), the real 'multiplayer' action started once everyone get there and got split into four teams of eight players each.
To say the action was epic is an understatement. The smaller relative size of the indoor field meant form the first whistle it was on. Paint flew thick, and over 12 rounds of action one team ended up getting the fastest victory - and it must have been fast, because the team I subbed into managed to clean up the opposition for zero losses in one minute, 34 seconds in one of our rounds.
Go Team Delta!
However, the win - and eight Battlefield 3 messenger bags - went to Team Alpha. Well done guys - that's some great paintball!
EA had more up its sleeve, though, and on the night we gave away a Razer Onza Xbox controller, five lots of five Laser Skirmish passes, a signed BF3 poster, and copies of the game. It was a prize fest!
So thanks EA, thankyou Sydney Indoor Paintball, and thankyou Atomicans for another great gaming night! Check out our gallery for all the gaming, paintballing action!
Issue: 137 | June, 2012