There’s probably a reason Act of Valor is being released in February, two months after the window closes for Academy Award nominees and generally the month in which distributors schedule their shittiest movies. The film may be visually interesting, but I have little hope for it being much more than a 120-minute Quicktime event.
Still, if you go to Battlefield 3′s official site and watch the whole thing, you’re entitled to a code offering you five unique in-game dogtags. Use them for… whatever. It’s free DLC which, coming from EA, is saying a lot.
Act of Valor [Battlefield 3]
Matt
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:17 PMCbf
Code47
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:24 PMCheers for that. Few cool dog tags for an easy mute and alt tab trailer :D
john
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:30 PMnot worth the effort
FatShady
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:31 PMSo why is this movie so bad? I’d watch it? Did i miss the really bad parts? Id already seen the trailer last week adn thought it was ok?
LyndonL
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:50 PMWell, Gamers who read online blogs religiously (ie ppl who comment) are typically nerds/geeks.
Nerds are generally smarmy, condescending bastards who always think something is crap even though they seldom offer up anything better themselves.
Now I will get shot down for stereotyping :) Muahahahahaa.
FatShady
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:16 PMthat is actually the impression i got too… I’m with you.
Kai
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:34 PMThe little plot it has will be based around the special effects. It will resemble a Michael Bay film. When it ends, you will walk out and never think about it again.
Of course, if you play First-Person Shooters this kind of film is right up your alley. I hope you enjoy it.
FatShady
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:42 PMi don’t play FPS games. I also enjoy your assumption that we do because we enjoyed a trailer that featured realistic special ops missions and technology I don’t know how you people are getting all this from a trailer?
Anyway, if I watch it ill let you know how it is.
monkeyd_93
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:36 PMhope the code works, noticed at the bottom it said it was only valid for the US…
also nothing can beat my Moar Dinosaurs one :P
jordanfinn
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:07 PMi have been wondering for a while now, what do you need to do or get to unlock the dinosaur dog tag?
Bluemaxx
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 2:53 PMTolerated it, doesn’t seem too bad to me….maybe once its come out on a $5 BluRay……
but hey…free stuff!
drew
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 3:21 PMI’m glad i watched that trailer. looks like a fairly decent action film. don’t know why anyone would complain about watching that trailer.
Gaz
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:20 PMcrap, code doesn’t work. Only for US ….
CyK
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:11 PMWorked for me :)
DEV
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:16 PMdidn’t work for me either, located in Australia. Got on to Ea Livechat about it and they said to check back later because the tool they use to check codes is down. sounded like bullshit to me. Rep’s name was Chandan.
liveb8
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:39 PMworked for me, im in australia, just got it done now at 5:39pm 3/11/11 so the system may have been fucked up of its just the consoles not liking the system again
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:29 AMworked for me in NZ, wasnt even a code it must somehow link to your battlelog because it was there instantly.
mordie
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:30 PMworked for me :)
DEV
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 5:45 PMapparently EA are having problems with the PS3 codes according to Kunal from EA’s Livechat.
Eric
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:25 PMcode didnt work for me
liveb8
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:38 PMgrabbed the pc tags, easy to do, clicked the link, had the vid run in a tab and muted ^_^.
chose my platform and done, i got 5 shiny new tags to pick from now.
Someone Else
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:49 PMLet’s see, did the directors spend six months interviewing and living with the SEALs? Check. Did they get the SEALs to take the main roles? Yep, they got eight of them. Did the directors plan things out with zero input from the SEALs? Nope, they got the SEALs to do all the operational planning.
Quite frankly, I’m looking forward to it. It sounds we’re finally going to get another movie that cuts out all the political bullshit and just tells the stories of the guys on the ground. The last movie I know of that did that was “The Odd Angry Shot”, back in the ’70s, so it’s about time we got another film like that.
N7 jpicard
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:22 PMI ran the vid played BF3 came back and got free tags +1 for my own effort.
Trololol
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:25 PMYou know whats better than free DLC from EA? Activision! Oh wait….
dave
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:51 PMI’m actually going to share this trailer with friends. I thought it looked cool.
Chris
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 11:40 PMIf only DICE could tell a story half as good as this.
JenskiOZ
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 10:48 AMAnyone in Aus with a OZ EA account know a workaround for this?
JenskiOZ
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 10:50 AMOh yea, for xbox only
Ben
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 11:28 PM*ONLY VALID IN THE USA*, Kotaku AU – can you please update this post to warn your Aussie readers that this is pointless.
Ben
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:25 PMKOTAKU AU, does anyone review comments / posts? You need to EDIT this post to warn Australians that this offer DOES NOT APPLY to people outside of “United States / Canada”.