Battlefield V

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3.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3148 Ratings

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  1. Mitsie
    Dec 1, 2018
    0
    Have been a Battlefield Fan since BF1942 and i own all the games, 1942, Vietnam, 2142, BF2, BC (Xbox), BC2, BF3, BF4, BF:Hardline and BF1.. I have played Battlefield every week of my life and have been a true fan.. I knew from Battlefield 1 that the franchise was moving in the wrong direction. The reason Battlefield was so good previously was it had depth and as time went on it had a highHave been a Battlefield Fan since BF1942 and i own all the games, 1942, Vietnam, 2142, BF2, BC (Xbox), BC2, BF3, BF4, BF:Hardline and BF1.. I have played Battlefield every week of my life and have been a true fan.. I knew from Battlefield 1 that the franchise was moving in the wrong direction. The reason Battlefield was so good previously was it had depth and as time went on it had a high skill curve. You had to learn the maps you needed to learn the weapons and know how to overcome each situation. It had tense moments, where you were walking through a town in BF2 with your squad and you heard footsteps on the otherside of the building, you would take position and try your best to keep each other alive. The game was exciting and exhilarating.. The Graphics where terrible but the game play was fun and felt like you were actually a soldier on the battlefield. Fans bought the game because of the gameplay and lots of COD fans started turning away from that franchise because it was repetition with the same engine with no skill level.. COD killed the skilled FPS genre. My last favourite COD game was MW2 and after that it just felt like a reskin and was boring. Battlefield 1 was the start of the "Lets be like COD" mentality, Lets reduce the skill level so far down that kids can play it. Then in Battlefield they notice R6:Siege are doing well so they start pinching the Alpha pack idea from that see if EA can get on the band wagon of making money. What EA have forgot is why people are buying skins and putting their money into R6:Siege.. Is Because its a skilled shooter with enjoyable gameplay. Its the gameplay that is key, EA's moto is Make it look shiny and grab the cash, they have forgot what making games is all about.. I Pre-Ordered Battlefield 5 and when i seen the reviews come out it sort of put me off and then my friend paid £10 for a trial of Origin Premier and played the single player campaign and played the multiplayer to death, beforer me and I had paid £70 i decided to cancel my pre order. I then went a purchased Hitman 2 (Which i love) I went and played on my Friends Origin Premier before it ran out and tried Battlefield 5.. and so glad i did and got a better game for my money.. From a true hardcore Battlefield Fan, i can sadly say BATTLEFIELD IS DEAD R.I.P !!!… Expand
  2. rfz88
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This is by far the worst BF title I ever experienced, and I have now completely abandoned this series. It's insulting to see this kind of poor excuse of a release. Forget realism, forget gp, this is just an insult to all fans & consumers, and a racist one at that.
  3. Praetorian_bgx
    Nov 15, 2018
    0
    If you want to pay for overpriced BF1 mod with implemented political agenda, then this is for you. Otherwise - Avoid like the plague.
  4. FinDefaulted
    May 13, 2022
    0
    To be fair the game is OK. Lots of bugs still, but the game works fairly well.
    EA just doesn't do anything about cheaters so the multiplayer games tend to have one team winning because ´few cheaters end up with KD's of 50/1 and people leave.

    DO NOT BUY ANY EA BATTLEFIELD GAMES
  5. Hudson633
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    So many fundamental FPS features are missing or butchered, things that used to be in older Battlefield games. The remaining experience is warped to chase after COD and CS playerbases (and later, Battle Royale I'm sure). Battlefield has lost its identity, leaving it a broken and awkward mess.
  6. scorpionm84
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    If you are searching for a game without a soul you are in the right place. Maps design is awful and every map looks like a running simulator. A lot of game mode are bad because the map design has 0 sense. UI and HUD are terrible and not user friendly, Plus we have a lot of bugs and is cleary an unfinished product. You get bored after few rounds in each map. WW2 without nazi and iconicIf you are searching for a game without a soul you are in the right place. Maps design is awful and every map looks like a running simulator. A lot of game mode are bad because the map design has 0 sense. UI and HUD are terrible and not user friendly, Plus we have a lot of bugs and is cleary an unfinished product. You get bored after few rounds in each map. WW2 without nazi and iconic battle? Come on..... BF is dead.… Expand
  7. JohnnyBNL
    Nov 29, 2018
    0
    Too many women at war... fake history.... no atmosphere... To many snipers. No good rewards if you play as a team-player, no one cares about reviving you. A big 0 for not even trying to make something great. Don't BUY!
  8. Hackerbee
    Dec 1, 2020
    0
    EA needs to put an anti-cheat into the game, why the hell a AAA publishing company releases a game with no proper anti cheat in this day and age is beyond me. most of them are just sticking to wall hacks, and while ♥♥♥♥♥♥ you at least stand a chance against the garbage players that just use that, but every once and a while you will run into a player rage hacking head shooting your entireEA needs to put an anti-cheat into the game, why the hell a AAA publishing company releases a game with no proper anti cheat in this day and age is beyond me. most of them are just sticking to wall hacks, and while ♥♥♥♥♥♥ you at least stand a chance against the garbage players that just use that, but every once and a while you will run into a player rage hacking head shooting your entire team through solid cover. This is what the death of a franchise looks like. The game is poorly populated, as is and with no anti-cheat and no private servers with 3rd party anti-cheat plugins, or hard working community admins to keep it clean this game is nowhere near as good as it could have been. I hate EA for ruining what was once one of the cornerstones of FPS gaming.… Expand
  9. Zybane
    Nov 24, 2018
    0
    I've got about 20 hours into this game (PC) and I've come to the conclusion that it is TERRIBLE. I cannot even describe how many crap decisions DICE made with this game.

    From maps being boring and linear; to hearing women screaming all the time (nothing says WWII like shrieking women on the front lines!); to HAND GRENADES damaging PATHETIC worthless paper Tanks; to INVINCIBLE bombers    I've got about 20 hours into this game (PC) and I've come to the conclusion that it is TERRIBLE. I cannot even describe how many crap decisions DICE made with this game.

    From maps being boring and linear; to hearing women screaming all the time (nothing says WWII like shrieking women on the front lines!); to HAND GRENADES damaging PATHETIC worthless paper Tanks; to INVINCIBLE bombers that have thousands of hit points and who's tail gunner has about twice as powerful of a gun than the CANNON on FIGHTER planes.

    The bugs; the de-sync; the ridiculous balance of weapons; ground vehicles being worthless and there just for background scenery.

    This is NOT a BF game. This is a large map CoD. It's a shame we've gone from games like BFBC2, to BF3, to trash like this.    … Expand
  10. Tristus
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    This game is unplayable... the mechanics are **** the balance is **** server lags with 20 ms ping >.> Cheater are a problem, too... OMG i regret baying this piece of **** so hard.
  11. NicoNofx
    Nov 27, 2019
    0
    It is not for the feminist issue, the game still feels like a beta after a year of release. (I played the alpha to) It has no auto - balance and many times you enter a completely empty server.

    I pre buy a $90 game for every dlc and some bonus objects. They add "Elite Skins" and the cheapest is $5.
  12. Yomomoto
    Nov 24, 2018
    0
    Absolutely degradation of Battlefield series Game is totally bugged,
    its look like alpha stage, campain totally crap,
    multiplayer bores you very quickly, idiotic map and gameplay design
    weapon balance terrible, weapon upgrades useless
    (says man who has 3.0 K/D in this game, i know what about i am talking)
  13. cepac135
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    Ужасная игра
    Это просто эпик, когда тебе за полную стоимость предлагают ЧАСТЬ игры
    УЖасный геймплей, персонажи носятся как под спидами Стрельба от бедра(!) точнее чем с прицела особенно на некоторых оружиях Это не новая часть это фанатский мод для БФ1 Спасибо коммунизму что я не потратил не одного пиастра на этот ужас    Ужасная игра
    Это просто эпик, когда тебе за полную стоимость предлагают ЧАСТЬ игры
    УЖасный геймплей, персонажи носятся как под спидами
    Стрельба от бедра(!) точнее чем с прицела особенно на некоторых оружиях

    Это не новая часть это фанатский мод для БФ1
    Спасибо коммунизму что я не потратил не одного пиастра на этот ужас
  14. Werebear
    Jun 18, 2020
    0
    WW2 without USSR - you are **** fascists.
    I hope you become lampshades.......................................................................................................................................
  15. SpaceBAR
    Dec 1, 2018
    0
    To me. Worst Battlefield ever. If you want leftist SJW political propaganda, it's for you.
  16. Ymirok
    Dec 3, 2018
    0
    At release, this game was missing tons of content, like practice range, an entire campaign chapter and vehicle customization. Aside from this, it is also wholly consumed by SJW agenda pushing. Not only do they rewrite history to be more politically correct, they devalue the efforts of 60 **** MILLION LIVES. They put women at the cover of the game, they make women look strong. Is it "pureAt release, this game was missing tons of content, like practice range, an entire campaign chapter and vehicle customization. Aside from this, it is also wholly consumed by SJW agenda pushing. Not only do they rewrite history to be more politically correct, they devalue the efforts of 60 **** MILLION LIVES. They put women at the cover of the game, they make women look strong. Is it "pure coincidence" that they decide to make one campaign story about black soldiers? Virtue signaling is rampant in the campaign stories.

    All of this can be considered unimportant if all you want is a good game. I do not think it can offer that, however. You are better off playing Battlefield 4, which has more content overall and thankfully lacks the blatantly obvious agenda normally shoved down our throats.    … Expand
  17. Methanol
    Nov 20, 2018
    0
    EA asked for it and now here it is, their deserved "uneducated" review of this game they have been waiting for.
  18. Uhrmacher
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Skip this game. For the love of everything holy, skip this game.

    BF5 has to easily be the most boring game I have ever played in my life. The multiplayer has absolutely no depth to it. Every single match is 100% exactly the same as the last one. Nothing changes. Well, the map does, but the map is pretty much irrelevant since the maps pretty much only differ in what they look like. The    Skip this game. For the love of everything holy, skip this game.

    BF5 has to easily be the most boring game I have ever played in my life. The multiplayer has absolutely no depth to it. Every single match is 100% exactly the same as the last one. Nothing changes. Well, the map does, but the map is pretty much irrelevant since the maps pretty much only differ in what they look like. The maps are essentially palette-swaps. After 10 minutes of gameplay, you have experienced 100% of what this game has to offer. It is just extremely bare-boned.

    There are 20938423094820948209384092348092348209348029842390 other games like this out there that do what this game does but much much much better. Even FPSs made in the 90s have more depth to them then this abomination. There are P2W mobile games out there with more depth.
    I was so bored it actually felt like my ability for my brain to brain was leaving. I was playing with friends or I would have quit after the aforementioned 10 minutes. I resorted to just driving around in a car and trying to run people over because the actual gun-shooting gameplay in this is severely boring. I actually had fun doing that, but of course the game is based around the boring gunplay so I obviously wasn't effective at all.

    It also has the same stupid level-up system that has infected so many FPSs recently. It's stupid. You are useless for the first part of your multiplayer experience until you grind a lot. That's ungodly awfully boring and amazingly stupid gameplay design. It was a stupid mechanic when Call of Duty first did it, and it is stupid now. Game devs need to make that mechanic a forgotten relic of the past and quickly.

    I eventually just opened manga on my other monitor and read it to keep from falling asleep while playing this with friends. It was that boring. I literally had more fun staying dead and just watching my friends play than I did trying to play it myself. Honestly, when I log into Discord to play with them and see that they are playing this game, I might just log right out. This game is THAT boring.

    In summary, I got this game for free yet I still feel like I spent too much on it. I'd pay maybe $5 for it because that feels like the amount of depth present in this game.

    If Battlefield 2042 is even 1% like this game, I'm just gonna say in advance that you should just skip that one too.    … Expand
  19. Acrobatreader
    Nov 18, 2018
    0
    This day has come: Call of Duty become better then Battlefield. This is the end of the series.
  20. watchoutch02
    Nov 21, 2018
    0
    Yeah no. This is an insult to WW2. And EA challenge us? You don't want me to buy the game? So be it. I'll keep playing BF1 for the years to come.
  21. ilya_gg
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    The EA had the love of fans, the expected and interesting setting of WW2, a lot of money and resources. And what did they do? They made a silly game unrelated to the real history. By buying this game you support the further course of stupidity and lack of talent.
  22. tHeSiD
    Dec 17, 2018
    0
    What an absolute **** I bought it when it was 50% off and thought I was getting my money's worth. I should have listened to the users here and not the "critics" There is absolutely no redeeming quality in this game's multiplayer. Quake 3 had 100 times better netcode in 2000 than this pile of **** in 2018. How did dice fall so low?
  23. Einheit
    Sep 27, 2020
    0
    The game is full of bugs and historical inconsistencies. Don’t buy it. It’s not worth a penny.
  24. FauxEden
    Jan 27, 2020
    0
    Total ****

    Game was released an unfinished piece of **** and yet somehow still managed to regress from that state. At least the losers at DICE LA is breaking new grounds at how bad you can be at your job.

    Honestly, put me in coach, I don't know **** about coding either and I'd like a paycheck for doing **** nothing too!
  25. hulagu
    Jan 5, 2019
    0
    its unfinished game and its not ww2 at all. even cant connect to the server. shameful
  26. SRKNZ
    Mar 10, 2019
    0
    This game feels cumbersome and heavy even on a decent middle of the road gaming laptop. All games perform well but not this one. I attribute this to the top heavy interface loaded down with marketing hype and cheesy over the top cinematic's that could and probably should have been left out.

    Single player missions feel like gaming "sushi" and not in a good way. Missions don't build on    This game feels cumbersome and heavy even on a decent middle of the road gaming laptop. All games perform well but not this one. I attribute this to the top heavy interface loaded down with marketing hype and cheesy over the top cinematic's that could and probably should have been left out.

    Single player missions feel like gaming "sushi" and not in a good way. Missions don't build on each other and the result is a game that feels like a multiplayer game with an incomplete single player as an afterthought.

    Game itself play is alright but quickly becomes repetitive and linear with boxed in objectives that feel forced and unrealistic. As do some of the characters who are historically inaccurate and feel out of place in a WWII context.

    In short a graphically pretty lemon I uninstalled and decided not to play as it felt like a waste of my time. Just as well I got it cheap. 2/10 from me.    … Expand
  27. NBT
    Nov 29, 2018
    0
    ohh dear ... where i should start .,.. some good changes where made .. grapics etc is still good and sound is really nice ... BUT !

    there were several bad choices like making snipers useless ... medic is a joke .. the only good class there is is the assault class that is overpowered completely .... on top of that .. .that female character choice ? well its not even a choice ... if    ohh dear ... where i should start .,.. some good changes where made .. grapics etc is still good and sound is really nice ... BUT !

    there were several bad choices like making snipers useless ... medic is a joke .. the only good class there is is the assault class that is overpowered completely ....

    on top of that .. .that female character choice ? well its not even a choice ... if you are driving a tank og plane you are forced to be a women ... because in WW2 women where the main driver , gunner etc for all vehicles ? WTF !? ... female characters are also standard for several classes ... This is forced diversity.

    The most offending thing in the end is the norwegian war story ... Holly F ... really ? a female .. you base your story on the heavy water sabotasj ... and you botch the whole story ... but in a women as a war hero that never existed to save her mother .. instead of just recreating the many herroric missions resistance fighter have been doing here ... this is a direct offence to our local heros her because EA wants to play SJW ... no no no dont support garbage like that

    Honestly .. the whole thing in multiplayer would not have been so bad if women where optional and not standard and forced ... and if they would not have botched the local war stories that are made up SJW stuff and offensive to local history and memory of our war heros ... i could at least have given it a 5/10 ... but since its so offensive towards us its a 0    … Expand
  28. RiaskoFF
    Nov 28, 2018
    0
    Its bad game that is not worth its cost and already goes with a discount on ps and xbox stores.
    Its boring, unfun, with poor performance, ive no idea why I should prefer this over bf1 or bf4. Not to mention the SJW bs with "dont like it dont buy it" controversy... dice wants to rewrite history about how blacks and disabled whamen with bionical arms won the ww2. disgraceful.
  29. mivaras
    Nov 19, 2021
    0
    An average game that doesn't deliver on the ww2 theme. More importantly every game is full of cheaters with aimbots. And there is no way to deal with them..
    Bf5 was truly ,a frustrating experience for me.
  30. Acrofilo
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    There are good things about the game in comparison con previous versions. For example, destruction and bullet penetration is fine. I'm also OK with attrition even though I have no friends and I would much rather play as lone wolf. But I would be able to stand that if it weren't for the complete lack of spotting and insta kills.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 52 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 52
  3. Negative: 0 out of 52
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 14, 2019
    85
    It’s far from being ideal but all the glitches and shortcomings don’t ruin the overall fun of Battlefield V’s multiplayer experience. Although the single player portion of the game is not bad at all, I would have been disappointed if I bought the game just for it. [13/2018, p.56]
  2. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    80
    In Battlefield V we got back to WW2, but with refined gunplay and death system which works great. There are also little problems such as low number of maps and stability issues, that are taking the fun away, but nothing that can't be fixed.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    80
    A great World War II shooter that will grow and improve. Do not buy the game because of its singleplayer, but if you consider the campaign a bonus to the multiplayer, you will be satisfied. [Issue#291]
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