Every game needs Battlefield 3 destruction, says DICE

Baffled that more games don't feature destructible environments.

Battlefield 3 executive producer Patrick Bach believes no other game can compete with the variety on offer in DICE's imminent FPS, pointing particularly to the use of destructible environments.

"As a complete product, this is the behemoth Battlefield game," said Bach. "In general, Battlefield has its own treats that no other shooter has. So if you want a great first person shooter with a state-of-the-art run-and-gun experience, together with vehicles, together with team play, together with big open landscapes with jets and tanks and everything, and also the very narrow and intimate indoor environments and narrow streets... there's a lot of stuff going on when you play a Battlefield game! I don't think any game can compete with us when it comes to the sheer variety of things, not only [the things] that you can use, but also the things that can happen.

"And of course we have the layer of dynamic destructibility in the world that you play in, that we still haven't seen in any other game - even though you'd imagine that someone would at least try to challenge us."

Asked why he feels we haven't seen destruction appearing in other games, Bach added: "Well, you could argue that it's because it's so crap that no-one wants it [laughs], because there's no other reason why you wouldn't try to do it.

"To us, it's great fun, it looks great, it adds to the experience, but most of all it changes the tactics as you play the game. To me, that's a given - everyone should do that. It's not something that should be unique to us, it should be a part of most games. Everyone is so used to games being static that they maybe haven't even thought about it."

Battlefield 3 is out on Friday for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Read our verdict in the Battlefield 3 review.