Battlefield 6
Electronic Arts
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. Fight in high-intensity infantry combat. Rip through the skies in aerial dogfights. Demolish your environment for a strategic advantage. Harness complete control over every action and movement using the Kinesthetic Combat System. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, the deadliest weapon is your squad. This is Battlefield 6.
It’s been four years since the last Battlefield game was released and seven years since we got a new single-player campaign, with a whole decade passing since the last story set in modern times. A lot has changed with FPS games since then, but Battlefield 6 doesn’t seek to innovate. The game doesn’t offer us anything spectacularly new. Instead, Battlefield 6 embodies everything Battlefield and shows us exactly why this series is so successful. The end result is a reimagining of what the Battlefield series is. Something that might feel a little safe at times, yet it’s still everything we wanted it to be.
Spanning nine missions, Battlefield 6’s campaign is fast-paced, flashy, and fun. It’s set during 2027 and 2028, where it follows members of Dagger 1-3, an elite team of US Marine Raiders in their fight against a private military company seeking to reshape global power. The story is simple and nothing too special, but it forms the base for an engaging campaign.
There are some fantastic moments in the campaign with incredible visuals and satisfying gunplay, but a lot of it feels very linear and restricted. The level design is a little uninspired overall, and the objectives aren’t always that interesting. Battlefield 6’s campaign lacks creativity at times, and it can feel more like a tutorial for the multiplayer. However, the fantastic gunplay and atmosphere of Battlefield 6 are still very enjoyable in the campaign.
BUT Battlefield 6’s biggest pull is the multiplayer! The guns included in the game are snappy and satisfying to play with for both the campaign and the multiplayer. Thankfully, the weapons are accurate, but players still need to account for bullet drop and travel, while the modest recoil and bullet spread for most weapons do make landing shots a lot easier. Along with the guns, Battlefield 6 keeps the classic playable military vehicles in the game, including tanks.
Pros
Excellent gunplay and audio
Immersive destruction
Fantastic multiplayer modes
Battlefield 3 / 4 refined
Tactical yet accessible gameplay
Cons
Early progression is slow
Campaign lacks an good plot
No big levolution effects
No server wide voip
No stand out multiplayer maps
There are four classes that are well-balanced despite having distinct playstyle identities. The Loadouts for each are not too varied; each class can equip any gun, and there is a small bonus effect for using weapons typically associated with that class, but it’s modest and not very noticeable so there’s no need to feel restricted to certain weapons. However, classes do still matter; only Engineers can repair tanks, and Medics have a defibrillator to save dead players and keep the collective stock of lives from draining.
Unlocking equipment and weapons can take a little time. Most are locked behind levels or need multi-tiered challenges to be completed first. This isn’t usually an issue, but Battlefield 6 has high-level requirements. Class-specific challenges do not unlock until level 20, which means powerful equipment options are locked for quite some time.
Vehicles in Battlefield 6 can have a high skill ceiling, but are still as enjoyable as ever. Tanks can become the focal point of every fight, with one tank capable of destroying buildings and slaughtering the enemy team. Meanwhile, the airplanes and helicopters are more complex to learn and lack a good tutorial or training mode to get the basics outside of matches.
Battlefield 6 keeps the classic Team Deathmatch mode, but the 64-player battles of Breakthrough and Conquest are still the Battlefield icons. Both modes force massive team strategy and cooperation with realistic military combat on a massive scale. It also has the option of Rush for smaller-group combat and a brand new mode for Battlefield 6: Escalation. This new multiplayer mode forces players to fight to control a large number of control points on the map, with the winning team being the one holding the most points at the end. However, the number of active control points decreases over time, which forces more and more intense battles over the remaining active zones.
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