There are maps that are legend. Dust Counter Strike Through joy and bad times, he has become an icon of the video game industry. The same can be said about Summoner’s Rift. League of Legends and Nuketown Call of Duty. And more recently the original maps of Fortnite: Battle Royale and Warzone.
We all tend to have several iconic places in common like those mentioned in the previous paragraph, although this does not mean that they are the only ones. For many other people it may be Tamriel, New York, the Commonwealth and others. Personally, I will always be very fond of a map located on the streets of Paris… and I have never particularly liked the French city.
Battlefield 3 Operation Metro: Unparalleled Mayhem, Destruction, and Abuse
For me, there is no other place like Operation Metro de Battlefield 3. Not even Call of Duty’s Nuketown, Terminal, Hijacked or Resistance have grabbed me in the same way… And I haven’t spent a few hours on each of them! Any Battlefield fan will understand why, so I’ll explain it for everyone else.
Operation Metro is probably the tightest, mouseiest, most chaotic map I’ve ever played in an FPS, especially when it comes to community-built servers. Many administrators increase match parameters to make them last hours. Its central area is literally a huge two-story hallway. Sometimes it has three alleys, but there are funnels with two alleys.
Its best version of Assault, a mode based on attacking and defending several stations. The only way to advance is to plant the bomb and hold out long enough without a defender defusing it. This is an especially difficult mission, because much of the map takes place underground.
Why is its best version Assault and not Conquest? Simple. In Assault mode there is a marked front, a very specific line that the defenders must maintain and the attackers advance. This makes the confrontations in Operation Metro stalemate very easily. And it is well known that the players of Battlefield We love a good stagnant funnel, although many deny it, there is nothing like fighting in a couple of hallways for hours.
There is no Elvish word, neither in the Ent language, nor Mordor nor human that can describe the chaos that I have seen in the corridors and platforms of Operation Metro. I fondly remember spending 8-9 hours straight, all nighters (literally), on “Operation Metro 24/7” servers.
What sounded in my cases was a pastiche of sounds that surely claimed the life of more than one neuron: gunshots, explosions and screams of the characters, a good list of background music (Linkin Park, Sabaton, Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica…) and from time to time the voices of my friends. Many nights we didn’t even talk. We just wanted to shoot Operation Metro without thinking too much.
Everything you can say about Metro Battlefield 3 falls short compared to reality. Quoting the famous poem by Lope de Vega: “He who tried it, knows it.” Watching videos helps, but the best way to check it yourself is to install the game and look for a server like the one mentioned. It may surprise you, but there are still some assets in 2024. I remind you that BF3 is from 2011. Little joke!
DICE is so aware of this legend that it brought the essence of Metro (successfully) to Battlefield 4’s Operation Locker map, although in this case it was a prison in China. An adapted version of Operation Metro was later released for Battlefield V. Hardline had The Block, which was quite fun and chaotic, and Battlefield 2042 released Redacted, although without as much success as the previous ones. And make no mistake that the next Battlefield will have its Operation Metro. I’m 100% sure.
I have many memories of Operation Metro, as do many fans of the saga. At least once a year I try to return to Battlefield 3 to try to play a few games. Needless to say, it’s a doomed tradition, but I’m hopeful that the next Battlefield will live up to expectations and give us a map of this caliber. My nostalgia levels are off the charts right now.
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