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  1. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Another broken Battlefield game. This is just pathetic from EA/Dice. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY!
  2. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. какая же это помойка за фул прайс просто смешно бф R.I.P Expand
  3. Nov 17, 2021
    10
    I have a high end PC with 3080 and 9900K, so I won't say anything about the lag or some bugs.
    Bugs I had on this PC: can't join the match, can't re spawn, but that's all. I'm a big fun of machine guns so by now I only used two LMGs and I'm level 34 now.
    To me this battlefield really remains me the good old days in BF4, C4(5) was so much fun! I was worried about no medic or ammo support
    I have a high end PC with 3080 and 9900K, so I won't say anything about the lag or some bugs.
    Bugs I had on this PC: can't join the match, can't re spawn, but that's all. I'm a big fun of machine guns so by now I only used two LMGs and I'm level 34 now.
    To me this battlefield really remains me the good old days in BF4, C4(5) was so much fun! I was worried about no medic or ammo support due to the special system, but it turns out not that hard to get supply from teammates, my playstyle is kind of rush in and die hard, so I didn't experience too much walking like many folks saying. Anything else feels so good! special abilities, guns and graphic. Tanks are a bit too weak since people are carrying too much anti armor equipment. but as infantry main like me it's just so much fun! Still nerf pp29
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  4. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Poorly optimized garbage, has nothing to do with battlefield series, insult to the veterans.
  5. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    no scoreboard
    no classes
    no server browser
    Bugfield 2042
    unbalanced
    the only good thing in this game is portal.
  6. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Sigh.. such hype and excitement only to be utterly disappointed when gameplay is released. This game is half-baked, filled with bugs and missing features. Wait until they address these issues or the game goes 50-70% off - which like Battlefield 5 soon after release - it is likely to do. Among the many issues:

    1. No scoreboard, no stats, no k/d, nothing - this alone is absolutely
    Sigh.. such hype and excitement only to be utterly disappointed when gameplay is released. This game is half-baked, filled with bugs and missing features. Wait until they address these issues or the game goes 50-70% off - which like Battlefield 5 soon after release - it is likely to do. Among the many issues:

    1. No scoreboard, no stats, no k/d, nothing - this alone is absolutely ridiculous to be left out. WHY?
    2. No in-game voice chat. Sooo there's crossplay, but I can't talk with my console buddies in my squad? Limited in-game chat as well. This is extremely frustrating.
    3. No server browser - matchmaking only in AOW - I don't want to rely on an engine to pick my servers. I want to pick the matches I want to join based on player count, ping, maps, etc. This is ripe for a SBMM algorithm which will ruin the experience. But hey, EA/DICE don't care about that anymore
    4. Awfully inconsistent hit registration, weapon bloom, and other gameplay issues that really ruin the experience. I expect bugs, but this is more like a game that was released half-baked. Stop pre-ordering and gaming manufacturers will stop giving you such broken games.
    5. Specialists - oh how I hate them - not so much the idea, but more how they're implemented. There's no difference between teams - they both look the exact same. This leads to friendly fire and not being able to quickly tell friend from foe. I hate relying solely on blue vs red marking and highlights based on when the game thinks I'm looking at someone. Make the specialists unique to each team
    6. Specialists and classless customization eliminates team play and strategy. Everyone goes out as a lone wolf. You don't know who has ammo or who is a medic, nor does it really matter as nobody seems to play as a team/squad anymore. Completely contrary to Battlefield's identity.
    7. Poor optimization and performance even on beefy rigs - unless you have thousands of dollars available to spend on a rig, you're going to struggle to get playable framerates in its current state. I have a 3080 and 10700 11th gen processor with 32GB of RAM and I'm lucky to get more than 70-80 FPS on 1440P with serious lags and rubber banding at times.
    8. UI, while slightly improved vs the open beta, is still average.

    I could go on and on. Summary, DO NOT BUY IN CURRENT STATE. And for the love of gaming, STOP PREORDERING.

    Peace
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  7. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    poor !!!! From servers, maps, lags, etc ... I cry when I see a random bullet velocity !!! Dice guys you are blind idiots !!!!
  8. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Very disappointing, nothing like what Battlefield used to be and feels lacking in all the basic elements that really made the game enjoyable. No server browser, no scoreboard, no classes, There is very little at this point that makes this game enjoyable or able to hold one's attention for very long. There is no sense of that deep involvement that would keep you locked behind your screenVery disappointing, nothing like what Battlefield used to be and feels lacking in all the basic elements that really made the game enjoyable. No server browser, no scoreboard, no classes, There is very little at this point that makes this game enjoyable or able to hold one's attention for very long. There is no sense of that deep involvement that would keep you locked behind your screen for hours on end as it was with previous instalments. I doubt in its current state the game will be able to hold its player base for very long. Right now BF2042 is trying to be a jack of all trades and a master of none. Expand
  9. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    if grafics were everithing this game would be a 10, but everithing is bugged, classes non existing, run´s like **** i cant like this game.
  10. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Battlefield 2042 is hands down the the worst FPS I've ever played. I put 15 hours in (I'm stubborn to have lasted that long!) and have uninstalled.

    I played and enjoyed Battlefield 1942, Bad Company, and BF IV. This is far and away the worst of the series so far. You're going to see some promoters of this game say "you people will tear anything down; you'll complain about
    Battlefield 2042 is hands down the the worst FPS I've ever played. I put 15 hours in (I'm stubborn to have lasted that long!) and have uninstalled.

    I played and enjoyed Battlefield 1942, Bad Company, and BF IV. This is far and away the worst of the series so far. You're going to see some promoters of this game say "you people will tear anything down; you'll complain about anything". The problem is that it is very easy to complain about this deeply flawed game - there is very little it does right and I can't even think about anything it does better than any other FPS including earlier Battlefield games. Death by a thousand cuts.

    My list of grievances go on and on. Even the opening cinematic is a eyebrow-raising tease depicting a ship on the ocean (there are no actual ships in game). In my case I have to run medium settings on a brand new 3060ti GPU just for it to perform adequately (even with latest NVIDIA drivers from Nov 16). The maps are so big that many players spend their time running from place to place - only to die and start again. Vehicles in the hands of a skilled operator are ridiculously overpowered and nearly immortal unless multiple people are working on taking them down simultaneously (tanks take a good 3 hits with rockets). There is absolutely no joy to be had in taking down helicopters - 10 points for damage and he's still fine despite being hit by a surface to air missile. It is nearly impossible to even hit a jet. Being a medic stinks because people will just intentionally bleed out since they have no idea if you are around them, another mechanic dropped from this game that is necessary for medics to be functional. Hit detection (with a very limited selection of guns that don't feel all that different from each other) is incredibly inaccurate, I've strafed many folks with guns from a tank only to not do any damage at all. I've basically given up on trying to engage people in 1:1 combat because it feels like a random number generator. If I have the jump on somebody and shoot them in the back at point blank range several times they manage to spin around and kill me at least a third of the time….it is absolutely outrageous. I am not alone here. I mostly play Casper and have spent over 10 hours spotting enemies and then watching my teammates engage them in firefights from above the battlefield. I've watched many dozens of times as my teammates come in behind the spotted enemy - with what should be an incredible advantage - only to then see my teammate fire at them, the enemy turns, they exchange gunfire for a few seconds, and then my teammate goes down for the count. This is not battle. This is a random number generator.

    The only reason I'm even giving this game a rating of 1 out of 10 is because I sometimes feel like I'm contributing by playing Casper and helping my teammates to spot enemies with a drone but even there I believe the game is deeply flawed - the EMP dart requires you to get absurdly close to vehicles and then it doesn't work long enough/isn't effective enough for it to be worth using at all on tanks & ground vehicles. It is usually impossible to get close enough to helicopters to use the EMP dart because they are constantly zigging and zagging and are much faster than the drone - not that it would accomplish anything notable if you did hit them to begin with.

    Speaking of working together - nobody works together because squads appear to be randomized without a way to exclude people or change squads. The specialists are annoying and do not translate well to a game where we have to see the same annoying characters over and over. Even faceless avatars with varying skins are more diverse than seeing the same characters spouting out the same lame taunt over and over at the end of each match. They've shoehorned in a bunch of different identities but still have failed to give us what really matters - variety. They call it Battlefield 2042 but all of this technology already exists except perhaps for the magical hacking ability the one specialist has. From a tech standpoint this is Battlefield 2024, not 2042.

    Although you can see a scoreboard while the game is being played (to some degree) by pressing tab while the match is going, there is no fulfilling summary at the end and apparently no way to see how you did afterward. Having 128 players sounds like a blast in the end it is just too much chaos and even more unfulfilling because you can never have the sense you really made much of a difference with so many people playing. It is all just throwaway effort.

    Battlefield 2042 is less a FPS game and more a "frustration simulator". If DICE's goal was to make a bad combat game in order to try and make young videogamers understand the pointlessness of war, I suppose I would say they have succeeded. Maybe making this wargame trash was their personal contribution toward world peace?
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  11. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Viel zu große Maps, teilweise läuft man Minuten lang herum ohne einen Gegner zu sehen. Hat man zu Beginn kein Fahrzeug, kann die ersten 3 Eroberungen vergessen.

    Der Zustand die Granate vor dem Wurf "ausrüsten" zu müssen ist katastrophal Die Einführung der Spezialisten ist das dümmste, das man Battlefield antun konnte. einer Klasse einen Schild zu geben um damit 6 Leute im Gang zu schützen
    Viel zu große Maps, teilweise läuft man Minuten lang herum ohne einen Gegner zu sehen. Hat man zu Beginn kein Fahrzeug, kann die ersten 3 Eroberungen vergessen.

    Der Zustand die Granate vor dem Wurf "ausrüsten" zu müssen ist katastrophal
    Die Einführung der Spezialisten ist das dümmste, das man Battlefield antun konnte. einer Klasse einen Schild zu geben um damit 6 Leute im Gang zu schützen damit die alles weg schießen können, ist so lächerlich! bereue es dafür Geld ausgegeben zu haben.
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  12. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    This has nothing to do with Battlefield.

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
    The weapons omg. There are literally only 4 ARs. Wtf is this?
    It tries to be a mix of Warzone, Fortnite, R6 Siege, Apex and so on.

    The cringe after game lines.
  13. Nov 17, 2021
    2
    They pulled out several mechanics that everyone liked.
    Generic gun noise.

    No points score. No map rotation in standard game mode. Not being able to choose a team. Not being able to close your squad. No server list in Conquest mode.

    Honestly, as a fan, I don't understand why DICE/EA insists on making a game that players don't like, becoming ''just another FPS''.
  14. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Performance: 0/10
    Bugs: 0/10
    Servers: 0/10
    QOL features: 0/10
    Content: 0/10
    Single player: 0/10

    User reviews are the reviews that speak the truth cause it's based on real players.
  15. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    i do not understand what happened at DICE since Battlefield 4. Why is that they refuse to give us what we actually want which is simply BF4 with advanced graphics, physics, new maps, new guns, new modes. That's it. No need to kill your formula with a hero shooter model, with a tarkov-like garbo mode that nobody will play, no need to make us pay $60 and battlepasses to have all the contenti do not understand what happened at DICE since Battlefield 4. Why is that they refuse to give us what we actually want which is simply BF4 with advanced graphics, physics, new maps, new guns, new modes. That's it. No need to kill your formula with a hero shooter model, with a tarkov-like garbo mode that nobody will play, no need to make us pay $60 and battlepasses to have all the content (you either go f2p battlepass or full content with 0 MTX).
    The game is bugged, uglier than BFV, has almost no weapons (only 22, they gave us 4 ARs, 1 revolver lmao). The maps are way too big, almost no action and the game runs like garbo on a GTX 1660 super + i5 10400f.
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  16. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    This has nothing to do with Battlefield.

    No scoreboards.
    No classes.
    No destruction.
    No servers.
    No stats.
    No chat.
  17. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    играю с самой первой части в эту франшизу, но после 2042 пришлось даже зарегистрироваться здесь, ребят в полном уныние, от БФ мало что осталось, может быть сейчас они на новых ореинтированы игроков, более молодых, но мне как старперу эта часть не понравилось( впервые после релиза в превые катки не нипуливаю и часа, очень плохо, жду когда сообщество что-нибудь в портале придумает. 2/10играю с самой первой части в эту франшизу, но после 2042 пришлось даже зарегистрироваться здесь, ребят в полном уныние, от БФ мало что осталось, может быть сейчас они на новых ореинтированы игроков, более молодых, но мне как старперу эта часть не понравилось( впервые после релиза в превые катки не нипуливаю и часа, очень плохо, жду когда сообщество что-нибудь в портале придумает. 2/10
  18. Nov 17, 2021
    10
    A welcome return to modern/ near future setting it has some work to be done to really get it going but is overall enjoyable if you can look past the supposed specialist issue and where's mah scoreboard complaints. I have 30 hours into it and enjoy it yes the bugs and some gunplay can be a little aggravating I recommend trying the 10 hour trail and deciding for yourself as reviews are notA welcome return to modern/ near future setting it has some work to be done to really get it going but is overall enjoyable if you can look past the supposed specialist issue and where's mah scoreboard complaints. I have 30 hours into it and enjoy it yes the bugs and some gunplay can be a little aggravating I recommend trying the 10 hour trail and deciding for yourself as reviews are not the best place these days to see how games actually are as most reviews are just rage, trolling or a cesspool review bomb spewing from r/battlefield2042 and at present it can be pretty hard on your system and needs some optimization. For me it runs fairly well at 5120X1440 on a 3090 and a 5950x at 132fps others mileage will vary.

    I would also like to mention how rough Battlefield 3 and 4's launches were this has been pretty smooth with little crashes. Hazard zone is not bad but slower and portal is a good way to relive the glory days or make something new with the rules editor.
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  19. Nov 17, 2021
    4
    Pros: The game is a bit fun

    Cons:
    Terrible performance
    Terrible server lag
    Terrible bugs and crashes
    No scoreboard
    No server list
    Can't select squad
    Terrible vehicle physics
    No classes

    SHAME ON YOU EA!

    I registered here only to write review because I'm very angry and disappointed. This game costs 60$ and looks like alpha version of F2P shooter
  20. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    What sucks: -hit reg -lags -optimization -bugs and glitches that are game breaking -UI is unpractical and looks horrible -retarded specialist with the most cringe voice lines -empty lifeless maps -no scoreboar -no all chat -cutscenes when every round starts -not many guns -vehicle controls etc. shame on you dice.
  21. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    is not battlefield, is call of duty with 128 players, and the system with operator....
  22. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    I got a great machine it runs well enough. But operators, and there is no such thing as classes now? I mean real classes, not operator gets perks, and its like pokemon you got collect them all, and they say they got support role. I can rock any weapon and item combo I want like its freaking Call of Duty, there is no classes no class levels.

    This shouldn't even be allowed to call itself
    I got a great machine it runs well enough. But operators, and there is no such thing as classes now? I mean real classes, not operator gets perks, and its like pokemon you got collect them all, and they say they got support role. I can rock any weapon and item combo I want like its freaking Call of Duty, there is no classes no class levels.

    This shouldn't even be allowed to call itself a BF series game. I love BF since 1942 I been a support class user, and loved it in every single game. But this, not only is support not a thing, the LMG it lets me use in tutorial against really bad bots, is not available on launch, the weapons are super limited, the enviroment is not destructible.

    This should be a damn p2w game why did I pay top dollar for gold edition only to get a f2p quality game with BF name in the title? I mean I feel so damn ripped off, I knew it would have some **** I may not like, but I expected min class system I coudl even handle that stupid cash grab operator system if there was still classes, real ones with restrictions. But instead its freaking Call of Duty style I can rock any gun I want, with any items, I can go sniper with ammo box, I can go LMG with an "assaults" operator. And the gun selection is tiny, I am use to rocking shotguns and LMGs and now I can do anything which eliminates half the damn strategy of the game. Now I can get killed by a SMG on a freaking support avatar, or sniped by one. Its just infuriating I paid full price for this garbage.
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  23. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Man what a disappointment. The trailer looked outstanding, Portal looks great however they failed to deliver a Battlefield game. This is Call of Battlefield: Noob friendly warfare. Where do I even start. Bloom so good players are punished for knowing how to aim. No scoreboard to see destruction. Specialists are the worst idea that they stole from COD simply for the cash grab of sellingMan what a disappointment. The trailer looked outstanding, Portal looks great however they failed to deliver a Battlefield game. This is Call of Battlefield: Noob friendly warfare. Where do I even start. Bloom so good players are punished for knowing how to aim. No scoreboard to see destruction. Specialists are the worst idea that they stole from COD simply for the cash grab of selling skins. Sound design mediocre, overall vision for the project is scattered and not going in one direction. The class system is broken and feels awful. UI is utter trash, I could go on. I just wanted a modern BF4. Dice did such a great job with BF1 I was hoping they would learn from the negative aspects of BFV and bring us a great title however this is easily the worst one in the series. Expand
  24. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    It feels like they focused on features within the game instead of the actual game play itself. For sure needed to be delayed for another several months, but I honestly feel like not much would of changed. It really seems like whoever is running DICE is completely disconnected from the BF community.

    I think the best way to describe this game so far is false advertisement. If I could
    It feels like they focused on features within the game instead of the actual game play itself. For sure needed to be delayed for another several months, but I honestly feel like not much would of changed. It really seems like whoever is running DICE is completely disconnected from the BF community.

    I think the best way to describe this game so far is false advertisement. If I could refund this game I would.
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  25. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    HOrrible Gunplay And soundesign. No teamplay. This game is under all others Battlefield.
  26. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Terrible. That's all I can say, from map design, animation, movement, optimization, gun selection, audio, UI. No real highlights here.

    It seems with every iteration of battlefield things that did well in the previous battlefields just gets forgotten about or replaced in an amateur and rudimentary way. When you look at how polished BF1 and compare it to 2042, it truly boggles the mind
    Terrible. That's all I can say, from map design, animation, movement, optimization, gun selection, audio, UI. No real highlights here.

    It seems with every iteration of battlefield things that did well in the previous battlefields just gets forgotten about or replaced in an amateur and rudimentary way. When you look at how polished BF1 and compare it to 2042, it truly boggles the mind of how far DICE have fallen with their quality and standards.

    BF1 felt atmospheric, the map design beautiful, intense and wonderful flow between objectives and yet we are left with open maps devoid of detail or character, and when you play most of these maps you really cant be bothered to move 500m to the closest objective.

    The specialist system is counter to the essence of what made previous battlefields great, the idea I always believed was that we play as generic soldiers whose only stand out is our readiness in terms of equipment choice, map knowledge, team work and overall skill level. Teamwork is completely gone as you are left wondering what role to play or any role at all.

    gunplay and movement feel like a cheap battlefield knockoff, which is far from the heights of BF4/1, it doesn't feel comfortable to play and often feels very jarring.

    It is also terribly optimized, my system can do 120-210 fps on previous games with no rubber banding or hit register issues and here I have to take the graphics down to low to just get a stable-ish frame rate, in a world of GPU shortages - shouldn't DICE have optimized for many of us who cant get a new high end GPU? Also for essentially a game that feels, looks, behaves worse than previous gen titles, it leaves you wondering where is all this performance going? and what have the devs been doing for the entire dev cycle?

    Most people are saying play portal But we came for BF2042 standard multiplayer, if we wanted to play the previous games - we would just go and play the previous games which btw are still pretty active!

    No scoreboard, no chat, no classes, barely destruction, no teamwork, no style, no swapping squads, no real customization, no server browser. No fun.

    And for those who say come back in 6 months to 1 year? why waste the money now in the hope that DICE and EA fix this hollow experience...
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  27. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    Yet again, "official" game reviewers are showing how out of touch they are with reality. 77 critic score is WAY too high and doesn't reflect player sentiment of the game, as reflected by the user score.

    This is the biggest disappointment in a Battlefield for me so far. I loved BF3 and BF4 and was really looking forward to the return of modern weapons and combat after the last two
    Yet again, "official" game reviewers are showing how out of touch they are with reality. 77 critic score is WAY too high and doesn't reflect player sentiment of the game, as reflected by the user score.

    This is the biggest disappointment in a Battlefield for me so far. I loved BF3 and BF4 and was really looking forward to the return of modern weapons and combat after the last two lackluster BF titles. Instead, DICE has managed to strip down their game so much that I don't even want to start the game up anymore. Almost every decision they've made seems backwards. I don't have the time or care to even get into any of it. Feel free to read through the curated list of issues via reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qt7sez/list_of_current_grievances/

    I've refunded the game already and I think its safe to say that this is the last DICE game I'll even look at.

    **** EA.
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  28. Nov 17, 2021
    0
    УЖАСНАЯ игра!!!После такого релиза можно ставить крест на этой серии игр.Как в своё время закрыли серию MOH.По сути понятно уже что Dice не способны выпускать игры высокого уровня,как это было с Battlefield 3.
    Battlefield 2042 похож на убогую игру уровня мобилок.
    В этой игре отвратно всё! Карты неиграбельны 10 минут бежишь 1 стреляешь,более того за пехоту играть вообще невозможно.Убогая
    УЖАСНАЯ игра!!!После такого релиза можно ставить крест на этой серии игр.Как в своё время закрыли серию MOH.По сути понятно уже что Dice не способны выпускать игры высокого уровня,как это было с Battlefield 3.
    Battlefield 2042 похож на убогую игру уровня мобилок.
    В этой игре отвратно всё!
    Карты неиграбельны 10 минут бежишь 1 стреляешь,более того за пехоту играть вообще невозможно.Убогая стрельба,огромный Ттк,плохая регистрация паподаний.
    Плохая обзорность,никого не видно из-за огромных расстояний.Уже много кэмперов.Если вы любили играть за пехотку штурмовать точки,много стрелять,набивать много фрагов,делать серии килов как это было с BF 3,4 то новинку можно смело забывать.Это сраный симулятор Форрест Гамп. Это был мой последний кредит доверия.Battlefield ПРОЩАЙ.
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  29. Nov 17, 2021
    10
    Naice game, ilike trailer and gameplay. you may not play it if yoy dont.a lot of work it is.
  30. Nov 17, 2021
    1
    The game is simply awful. Thank god I have EA Access and didn't spend 100 bucks on that crap of a game . Battlefield is officially dead . It's been 8 years since they released a decent game . DICE and EA are joke . I will always remember the good old days back when the Battlefield community was great .
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 74
  2. Negative: 11 out of 74
  1. Feb 15, 2022
    70
    All in all, Battlefield 2042 has been a real labour of love for me. The initial launch was remarkably underbaked, but I can’t deny the enjoyment that comes from firing a rocket launcher into a tornado. This may not be the best FPS multiplayer game available, and there are still plenty of issues that need ironing out, but there are occasionally some thrilling moments that you won’t be able to experience in the likes of Call of Duty or Fortinte. It remains frustrating having to pay full price for a multiplayer game, but if you’re already a fan of the franchise and don’t mind missing out on the campaign, you’ll likely enjoy yourself here. The nostalgic aspect of Portal mode will also draw fans in, and of course, the 4K graphics make it very pretty game, even if it has its cracks.
  2. Dec 23, 2021
    40
    The weakest first-person shooter in the history of DICE. Even, by some miracle, the studio manages to fix the most glaring mistakes and reanimate the abysmal netcode, this game will not become Battlefield at its core.
  3. Despite the promising Portal mode, Battlefield 2042, which uses players as a tester, still gives the impression of an incomplete game with its errors and important problems.