Change up from smelling the sea air, flying the F/A 18′s off the deck of an aircraft carrier in the “Going Hunting” mission, to the desert air, rolling with your mates in a tank squadron. Once again, you really get a feel of what it would be like driving a tank, firing the main gun and the machine gun in this mission. It is one of my favorites.

You, Corporal (E-4) Miller, are in full control of the tank, so you not only drive it, but also may fire the turret or co-axial machine gun and direct the Hogwarts in on a raid from above surveillance point in a later mission. Mission Update (extra task): Scrap Metal Destroy 6 enemy tanks before reaching the fort in Thunder Run Scrap Metal is the bonus task on this mission.

This extra bonus task is to personally destroy six enemy armor units before you are ordered to stop and switch to the UCAV view. There are eight tanks for you to toast, and you may satisfy this condition on the Easiest Difficulty Setting. Mission Objective: Defeat Enemy Armor After a bit of travel, you will come across six units of enemy armor.

One solid strike from an armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot round on the target’s side armor should be sufficient to knock it out of action. Once the initial six units are destroyed, your tank’s enhanced thermal vision will be unlocked to let you locate and destroy the last two tanks using the dust storm to hide.

I just got Battlefield 3 plus a new XBOX 360 with Kinect (plus the Microsoft $50 rebate for the Kinect) and I haven’t had so much fun blowing the crap out of ‘the enemy’ and I haven’t even experienced the Multi Player mode. Yes, this is all in Single Player which is reported to be ‘ordinary’ compared to the Multi Player online mode. Hey, I’m still having a lot of fun action pack flying Tomcat F-15 off an aircraft carrier, hunting down a nuke, driving tanks, shooting the 50 mm, crawling around a war-torn city, earthquakes, yes quite an experience.

I only discovered one bug, where I’m trying to kick in a door by pressing the red ‘B’, but nothing happens. It looks like Battlefield 3 is in a loop. I left the game running for a few minutes while getting some soldier food, and lone behold, tried pressing the red ‘B’ a few more times and I was able to kick the door in.

The other part of Battlefield 3 I had a difficult time getting pass is when I confronted the baddie who had the nuke up in the train station. After pressing the red ‘B’ then the Right Trigger, I kept getting thrown in front of the bloody train. I found a reference to how to beat this guy a IGN.com and here is the clue.

Pursue and Catch HVT

Catch up (don’t shoot) to the fleeing suspect and repeat the above inputs for the QTE. Remember:

• B (Xbox 360) is E (PC) and CIRCLE (PS3)
• RT (Xbox 360) is LMB (PC) and R1 (PS3)
• A (Xbox 360) is Spacebar (PC) and X (PS3)

Basically with the XBox 360, you run up the train station stairs, get punched in the face, then you have to press the ‘B’, “Right Trigger’ then the ‘A’ in this sequence. Once I discovered you have to also press the ‘A’, then everything was pretty cool, and I got to toss the little shit in front of the train for a change.