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What is a AAA game? Although no organization has conducted any surveys such as "3A game standards" and "3A game rankings", in order for a game to reach the 3A level in the minds of game practitioners, the following conditions must be met:
- High-quality
- Broad market covers a large area of the market
- High sales
- Large teams
- Big budget high development budget
- Polished audio-visual direction very nice picture
- Perfect technical and artistic execution
- Playable & fully enjoyable within the first five minutes of play
- Exhaustively tested
- Bug free, almost no bugs
- Great usability
- Continous, balanced entertainment from beginning to end
- Great graphical user interface
There are not many games with so many demanding conditions. For example, "Call of Duty 7" and "Battlefield 2" may be considered 3A level.