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1. #Battlefield 5 review full#
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As a result, compared to Wake Island, Monte Grappa, or Siege of Shanghai, I can’t see any of Battlefield 5’s maps becoming instant classics or fan favourites anytime soon.Īt least they all look incredibly pretty, with Arras’ bright Canola fields and Narvik’s snowy peaks offering unrivalled eye candy in the multiplayer shooter realm. Indeed, the eight maps available at launch are generally smaller and/or flatter than previous games, missing the verticality and inspired design of previous entries in favour of simple close quarter lanes and crowded choke points that bring to mind DICE’s first Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab) title of 2015.

When the chaos of war unfolds across the screen in short, staccato bursts, it looks and plays better than ever.

#Battlefield 5 review series#

While the enemy AI is patchy in places, and there’s nothing particularly innovative about the mission design itself, each is worth a playthrough between breaks of Battlefield 5’s PvP, at the very least as a contextual training ground for multiplayer.Ī renewed emphasis on squadplay and class customisation, with more ways than ever to personalise your company, are also appreciated, but where Battlefield 4 had the crowd pleasing Levelution and Battlefield 1 had the equally awe-inspiring Behemoths, Battlefield 5 lacks any unique, grandstanding feature that delivers on the sweeping, mind blowing scale the series is known for. Gameplay wise, all three War Stories give you a strong degree of freedom over their two to three hour chapters, set in open areas with multiple objectives to take down however you choose. Tirailleur is also a poetic but predictable tale of fraternal bonds amidst dire circumstances, while Under No Flag - a story of a former prisoner turned soldier struggling to play by the rules of his Cockney officer - plays out like an old fashioned British sitcom, except the jokes don’t land and the “Ello guvna!” voicework is horrendously cringey. Nordlys is undoubtedly the strongest of the lot, focusing on a Norwegian mother and daughter coming to blows with their German invaders, and not just because you can ski around the open map. These War Stories are shorter in number but longer in length than Battlefield 1's though, sadly, that concentration seems to have affected the consistency of their overall quality. Battlefield 1’s War Stories saw DICE finally discover an effective structure for its storytelling after years of forgettable Battlefield campaigns, so it makes perfect sense for the studio to continue that anthology format for Battlefield 5, with three separate vignettes (alongside an exceptional prologue) shedding light on some of the lesser known heroes of WW2.

#Battlefield 5 review full#

While most people will be picking up Battlefield 5 for its multiplayer, this iteration thankfully doesn’t go the way of Black Ops 4, but includes a full campaign containing around seven to eight hours of solid single player content. Unfortunately, in doing so, this latest entry loses sight of what makes the series so special, even while retaining, expanding, and improving upon so much else. Which leads us to Battlefield 5, and a World War 2 setting that pays homage to the series’ origins while simultaneously feeling its way towards new horizons for the franchise. It’s perhaps a reflection of the fact that, over the course of this console generation, Battlefield has been slowly moving away from its milsim sandbox roots into something more choreographed, but no less operatic in flavour.

The best Battlefield games (opens in new tab): Every instalment, ranked