Battlefield 3 has different animations for singleplayer and multiplayer
DICE will be using ANT animation technology differently in singleplayer and multiplayer.
Recently in an interview with Edge Magainze, DICE's Lars Gustavsson had this to say on their use of player and AI animations:
We can infer that multiplayer's animations will be even more realistic than the ones we've seen in the singleplayer campaign.
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