Xbox 360 owners you may want to clear some hard-drive space for Battlefield 3 hi-res texture pack.

Many 360 owners already know that Battlefield 3 will be on two discs; disc one will contain the multiplayer content, and disc two will contain single player. And to achieve hi-res texture, one must install disc two to the 360 hard-drive.

There has been a lot of controversy regarding this optional hi-res texture pack install. In an interview with executive producer, Patrick Bach, Gamerzines asked for more information regarding this optional install.

"There's nothing magic about it," said Bach. "It's the same thing we do for PC and PS3, so there's nothing extra.

"I think the controversy about this is that we actually let you do it on 360 for once. So what it does is it gives you the same abilities, kind of, as the PC and PS3. You can actually stream information from the hard drive.

"That's new for Xbox 360, but it's not a new idea for the gaming industry as a whole. No one has really tried to do it properly, so us doing it will create question marks. "

Does installing the texture pack make a noticeable difference?

"It does make a difference, yes, absolutely. The whole engine is based around streaming textures, streaming terrain and a lot of other content.

"What we let you do is let you have high-res information that gets streamed in and out of memory at all times, and that gives you a more detailed, varied and vivid experience on all platforms. We don't want to take that away from 360 players.

It’s unclear how much hard drive space will be required for the hi-res texture pack. But if you’ve been looking for a good reason to upgrade your hard drive or upgrade to a new Xbox 360 slim. You now have the perfect reason, Battlefield 3.

Battlefield 3 releases on October 25th in the US, and on October 28th in Europe for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.