History Awesome / Battlefield3

** And then someone took the [=RendeZook=] and did something even more awesome. As the player in question, Stun_gravy, said in the video description, "[[CoolPlane SU-35BM]] hot on my tail. Javelin missiles locked on from the ground. Flares wouldn't do any good. There was only [[BlatantLies one reasonable option.]]" Said "reasonable option" was ejecting from his doomed jet, [[OneHitKO oneshotting]] the pilot following him with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]], and then ''jumping into the dead pilot's plane as he fell past it.'' Words hardly do this one justice; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOIgxQ--Tc here's]] the moment in all its glory.

** And then someone took the [=RendeZook=] and did something [[UpToEleven even more awesome.]] As the player in question, Stun_gravy, said in the video description, "[[CoolPlane SU-35BM]] hot on my tail. Javelin missiles locked on from the ground. Flares wouldn't do any good. There was only [[BlatantLies one reasonable option.]]" Said "reasonable option" was ejecting from his doomed jet, [[OneHitKO oneshotting]] the pilot following him with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]], and then ''jumping into the dead pilot's plane as he fell past it.'' Words hardly do this one justice; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOIgxQ--Tc here's]] the moment in all its glory.

* Dima. Everything this guy does is awesome, from the HALO jump at the start of 'Kaffarov' to surviving a nuke, this guy is badass.

* Dima. Everything this guy does is awesome, from the [[spoiler: HALO jump at the start of 'Kaffarov']] to [[spoiler: surviving a nuke]], this guy is badass.

* In the final mission, [[spoiler: beating the asshole interrogator's face on the table.]] The entire game pretty much built up to that one satisfying beating.

* Basically any time the destruction engine is given a chance to shine:
** The earthquake that levels dozens of buildings and collapses on top of the player character.

** "Comrades" is a great example, especially during the fight through the EURONEXT building. You can pretty much tear the whole level apart.

* The ''entirety'' of "Thunder Run." You start off at the gunner seat of your M1 Abrams with the rest of your company rolling alongside to the sound of {{Crowning Music Of Awesome}}. Chewing up T-72's that are dumb enough to get in your way, blowing up a battery of BM-21 rocket artillery, and rolling into the outskirts of Tehran, blowing the PLR straight to hell. The whole level is one big [=CMoA=].

** While the mission itself is LoveItOrHateIt, it cannot be denied that the opening setpiece is ''amazing'', especially when the Super Hornet shoots down the cat, climbs, and the Battlefield 3 theme kicks in.

* Also on the multiplayer front, some of the crazy stunts you can pull. In particular, the [=RendeZook=], which consists of ejecting from a plane when dogfighting, shooting the enemy plane with a bazooka and hopping back into your own plane to continue the flight. It is as much of a LuckBasedMission as it is a feat of skill, but when you pull it off, you look like a badass.

* Also on the multiplayer front, some of the crazy stunts you can pull. In particular, the RendeZook, which consists of ejecting from a plane when dogfighting, shooting the enemy plane with a bazooka and hopping back into your own plane to continue the flight. It is as much of a LuckBasedMission as it is a feat of skill, but when you pull it off, you look like a badass.

** Admit it, your jaw dropped when you saw that MiG-29 pull a [[DodgeByBraking Pugachev's Cobra]] right in front of you.

* The beginning of "Going Hunting." If [[SilentProtagonist Hawkins]] wasn't humming the theme to TopGun it's likely you were.

-->Better get your fangs out, Hawkins. We're hunting big game today.

** Admit it, your jaw dropped when you saw that Su-27 pull a [[DodgeByBraking Pugachev's Cobra]] right in front of you.

* The beginning of "Going Hunting." If [[SilentProtaganist Hawkins]] wasn't humming the theme to TopGun it's likely you were.

* The beginning of "Going Hunting"

* In the final mission, [[spoiler: beating the asshole interrogator's face on the table.]] The entir game pretty much built up to that one satisfying beating.

* On the multiplayer front, a patch released alongside Back to Karkand allows the huge radio tower on Caspian Border to fall. When one side only has 10 tickets left, the losing team will enact a DesperationAttack and perform an air strike on the tower. Watching the ensuing damage is pure awesome.