Battlefield™ V Reviews

After Battlefield 1, I expected Battlefield V to build upon what the franchise had already established. Instead, the more I played, the more it felt like another example of Battlefield changing its historical setting without meaningfully evolving its core design. The move from World War I to World War II should have created opportunities to expand the formula. World War II offers a larger variety of weapons, vehicles, factions and battle scenarios, yet Battlefield V often feels smaller than its predecessor. Despite being the newer game, I found myself feeling that Battlefield 1 offered more content overall, whether in terms of weapons, progression variety or the amount of gameplay available to the player. This highlights one of my biggest criticisms of the franchise as a whole. Battlefield rarely evolves beyond its established formula. Every game introduces a new setting, new maps and new visuals, but the fundamental experience remains almost identical. Capture objectives, defend positions, use vehicles, respawn and repeat. The formula works, but after multiple entries it begins to feel like Battlefield is placing different historical skins on top of the same game rather than genuinely expanding its systems. The vehicle gameplay is one of the clearest examples of this problem. Tanks, aircraft and armored warfare should be among the strongest parts of a World War II shooter, yet Battlefield V does very little to develop them beyond what previous entries had already done. I am not asking for a full simulator like War Thunder, nor do I expect Battlefield to abandon its arcade identity. However, I do expect some level of evolution. Vehicle combat still revolves around relatively simple health-based engagements where players exchange damage until one side is destroyed. There is little sense of armor protection, ammunition variety or meaningful vehicle specialization that could create more interesting encounters. The result is that tanks often feel less like powerful military assets and more like oversized infantry weapons with health bars. The class system suffers from a similar issue. Battlefield has used variations of the same class structure for years, yet Battlefield V rarely expands upon those roles in meaningful ways. Fortifications were introduced as one of the game's major additions, but even that system feels underdeveloped. The ability to build defensive structures adds some utility, yet I constantly felt that the mechanic could have been expanded much further instead of remaining a relatively small feature. Comparing Battlefield V to games like Enlisted makes these limitations even more noticeable. Enlisted is far from perfect and has many problems of its own, but it constantly attempts to expand the battlefield experience through additional mechanics, larger progression systems, more weapon variety and movement options that Battlefield still lacks. Features such as climbing and environmental interaction help create gameplay situations that simply do not exist in Battlefield V. The campaign also failed to leave much of an impression. Much like Battlefield 1, the game tells several separate war stories rather than focusing on a single coherent narrative. While some scenarios are more interesting than others, none of them felt particularly memorable. They serve as short experiences built around the setting rather than stories I found myself becoming invested in. What ultimately disappointed me is that Battlefield V should have been a natural evolution of Battlefield 1, yet it often feels like a step sideways. The historical setting changed, but many of the underlying systems remained largely the same while some areas actually felt smaller than before. For a franchise that has existed for so many years, I expected more innovation than simply moving the battlefield to another period of history. For me, Battlefield V represents a franchise that became too comfortable repeating the same formula. While other games in the genre continued experimenting with progression systems, vehicle mechanics, movement and gameplay variety, Battlefield remained largely unchanged. The result is a game that feels competent, but one that rarely gives me a reason to choose it over other alternatives available today. Score: 5/10 (1) Trash (2) Horrible (3) Very Bad (4) Bad (5) Average (6) Fine (7) Good (8) Very Good (9) Great (10) Master Piece

The campaign are divided into 4 parts, it mainly focuses on multiplayer rather than single player but if want some good war stories you can surely try it out.

ea shooters are always a breath of fresh air from cod's recent jibber jabber

The main single player missions are alright, just that the multiplayer skill gap is like suuuuuper wide. Much easier to get into single player more than multiplayer. Overall still okay of a game

Like battlefield 1 but WW2. Great game, I don't get why people are hating on it.

Toxic mess camping and vehicle ruled meta. tanks shoot every half second, more manouverable and fast than any other vehicle in the history of battlefield. Cod-like run&gun gameplay with 0 battlefield qualities. Experimental bs not worth your time, even on discount. Play BF1/4, [strike]same price[/strike] CHEAPER and 10 times better.

i had fun but after 3 games i start encounter a group of chinese hacker playing inside a tank that could fly across the map and shooting bazooka kaboom from a miles away. this would be fun if they just play like a normal human being and not hacking. 10/10 gameplay -10/10 chinese hacker. i assume they were chinese because of thier name.

BFV's campaign is pretty good, but also very disappointing. The stories are pretty good, even solid but inferior to BF1 in almost every sense. How they feel they could get away from a WWII game without a chapter in the Eastern Front showing the USSR/Third Reich is UNFATHOMABLE for me. That battle was the one that defined the war, and it's not even mentioned here. I can't even call this American propaganda, because the Americans are also not present… It just feels like a missed opportunity to portray WWII like this. I know the whole point of BF's War Stories is to shine a light on unknown stories from WWII, for example, the Tirailleur story that was VERY GOOD and a highlight of this campaign, but not a single story in the Eastern Front is insane. I am also very surprised to see The Last Tiger chapter, it was bold, depressing, bleak, and brutal. Probably the best from BFV and the most relevant. I also feel that technically the game took a big downgrade, the game feels sluggish, the explosions don't register well, the destruction is less impressive, the game stutters even in cutscenes, and strangely, I feel the graphics and art style are worse than previous games. Soundtrack, scenarios and weapon variety are still excellent. I also loved the new mechanics (Skying anyone?). BFV is ok, it could be better, and seeing so many downgrades, both technically and narratively, clearly shows that this was rushed out of the door incomplete. Classic EA move. Good enough for a recommendation, but not enough to challenge BF1's excellence.

years after release and it still performs like absolute garbage, even on an entirely different rig than when I originally played... par for the course with EA titles, buggy glitchy messes and not the "fun" kind like Bethesda nonsense.

---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ based on real story ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10