Playing Windows Games on MacBook with Windows 7/BootCamp

Hey guys,
is it possible to play windows games on mac?
For example: I want to play Battlefield 3 and I installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp. Does it work?
I have the new Macbook Pro Retina 13" with 2,5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 and Intel HD Graphics 4000 768 MB.
Its brand new and I just have a few programs on it. And i don't want to play that game in high end graphic in UHD or something like that.
Could i play smooth?

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To see early startup you want an Apple compliant card. To play games you may be fine or want something more, depends on game and what level of performance.
You install Apple drivers and all the normal Windows gpu and other drivers.
And Microsoft Security Essentials.
Microsoft Security Essentials
Ah, didn't you already try or install Windows? seems like you did at least try? No?

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