Battlefield 2042

 Xbox Series X
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2.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 644 Ratings

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  1. Bob_Phalange
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    Who is this game for? Certainly not battlefield veterans, with an entire raft of features missing from this release, with such basic elements like, you know, a scoreboard not making it off the chopping block. The only thing that serves as a reminder to this games superior forebears is the ample amount of bugs that inundate every match, a true staple of every battlefield launch.

    Is this    Who is this game for? Certainly not battlefield veterans, with an entire raft of features missing from this release, with such basic elements like, you know, a scoreboard not making it off the chopping block. The only thing that serves as a reminder to this games superior forebears is the ample amount of bugs that inundate every match, a true staple of every battlefield launch.

    Is this game designed to appeal to CoD players? Than what is Hazard Zone, and why is it locked behind a paywall? Seriously, what is hazard zone, I've played five matches and it's not a battle royale but it's definitely not battlefield.Am I supposed to pay full price for this game, and a battle pass, and the microtransactions to make my shiny new specialists look good?    … Expand
  2. Jvanee
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    As of 11/14/2021 the game is a piece of trash. Missing dozens of features from previous games. Sound is broken and lack of good sound design. Only 22 weapons in the main game mode at launch. Maps are empty and look worse the BF1 graphics. Portal is broken and full of xp farms. Game is an unfinished mess and EA is scamming people by making them pay extra to play a broken early build of the game.
  3. Nyegnav
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Want a player scoreboard to see how you did in a match? Sorry didn't finish that.

    Want to disable crossplay so you don't get sniped by pcheaters who could buy hacks prior to the game even going into beta? Sorry they didn't finish that. You'll need to disable it for the entire system.. This game is half baked, changed mid development. Don't buy. Don't reward a company for releasing a game    Want a player scoreboard to see how you did in a match? Sorry didn't finish that.

    Want to disable crossplay so you don't get sniped by pcheaters who could buy hacks prior to the game even going into beta?

    Sorry they didn't finish that. You'll need to disable it for the entire system.. This game is half baked, changed mid development. Don't buy. Don't reward a company for releasing a game that is unfinished and barely playable.    … Expand
  4. PMDally
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    It's just not Battlefield.. This games feels like a generic fps rip-off with no soul. Gunplay is Clunky and inconsistent, vehicle movement and weapons have no weight to them. For $70 this game has nowhere near the content it should have.
  5. smaksprove
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    I Don't want to play with PC users.
    I want classic classes back.
    Die hard Battlefield fan here, but not anymore.
  6. neviusnc
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Even on Series X the performance is absolutely terrible. And even when the game runs smoothly, it's trash. Graphics look extremely basic, player runs like a Nintendo game off in the distance, expolded vehicles look like burnt dog turds, etc. This game is a very bad joke. They will not be getting my money this year, the line is drawn at this pre-alpha 70$ trash
  7. Mflames
    Nov 13, 2021
    3
    Game needed more time in the oven but hey gotta please the shareholders. All out Warfare is ok and Hazard Zone is such a joke. It shoulda been free. The game’s saving grace is Portal. However I don’t know how long people will stick around to play portal. The fact that older BF games are more popular than the new game mode shows that Dice is unable to make a new battlefield game.
  8. meHihate
    Nov 13, 2021
    0
    Game is in alpha state. Many game breaking bugs and glitches. Often shut down xbox, exit to desktop, can't disable crossplay, stuck on revive screen, maps are too big and too empty. Gunplay is awful. Not recommend got refund.
  9. austinb91
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    I refunded and canceled my order for this game after playing the beta and the early access for the full game. I have played many battlefield games over the years including battlefield 2, battlefield bad company, battlefield 2142, which was my favorite game and I would love for them to make a spin off of that one day, and battlefield 4 also being a big favorite of mine. I was super pumpedI refunded and canceled my order for this game after playing the beta and the early access for the full game. I have played many battlefield games over the years including battlefield 2, battlefield bad company, battlefield 2142, which was my favorite game and I would love for them to make a spin off of that one day, and battlefield 4 also being a big favorite of mine. I was super pumped for BF2042 to come out but I’ve been so disappointed by how it feels and plays…

    -maps are too big and don’t feel like 128 players
    -just kind of boring like a running simulator/vehicle sim
    -just overall animations look unpolished and sketchy
    -I think it was a bad move to do “heroes” instead of classes like every other battlefield game
    -Hate EA and their server BS constantly -you literally can’t even choose to play small conquest
    -they took teamdeath match away
    -there’s not even a server browser for conquest
    -it seems so strange to be shooting a character on the other team that looks exactly like yourself with the exact same appearance and not even different camo patterns
    -simple things like death animations and movement look so unpolished    … Expand
  10. kockalabda
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    Joke! The worst battlefield I have ever seen! Full of bugs, no scoreboard, joke classes... want a refund right now!
  11. Khamoo
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    This game is a step back on every, EVERY aspect...
    -Forced crossplay with pc on consoles... you told us that you are afraid that M&K could destroy balance on consoles and now you force us to play with pc users and auto aim is not working? xD i hope that you get how pathetic of you this is..
    -leaning, crouch sprint, climbing high obstacles... It has been all deleted. Movement is from 2005 i    This game is a step back on every, EVERY aspect...
    -Forced crossplay with pc on consoles... you told us that you are afraid that M&K could destroy balance on consoles and now you force us to play with pc users and auto aim is not working? xD i hope that you get how pathetic of you this is..
    -leaning, crouch sprint, climbing high obstacles... It has been all deleted. Movement is from 2005 i think...
    -No scoreboard
    -No platoons
    -No server list
    -Matchmaking every game
    -Lack of game modes
    -Glitches everywhere (cant revive, stuck on objects, can fall od the map, sometimes after respawn some keys are not working and you can't shoot, collision detection is joke, sometimes when you die you cannot respawn, every few restarts game forgots my loadout and you have to start from the beginning to choose what you like)
    -you came up with tornado idea and now you use it on every map? I thought that we will get more ideas not 1 which will be used everywhere...
    -UI is so far from being intuitive that it cannot be worse
    -Footsteps sound is flat as hell, it is annoying not helpful. It is impossible to guess how far from you the enemy is. No matter if he is 2 or 20 meters away, sound is the same.
    -If you want to quick throw grenades it will throw both at once - Tanks are slow as hell -Graphically i do not see any improvement since bfv
    -Helicopters are flying like toys
    -Maps feel empty and flat, nothing special and interesting (for now i think that these are the worst maps in series) -It takes too many shots to kill someone who is using armor
    -Squads are way to small.. -Game is forcing to spawn at the beginning so in most cases you end up running for few minutes to go to the checkpoint where the fight is and probably you will Die after few minutes of running -Choosing point to spawn on consoles is clunky and not intuitive at all... -Game forgets skins i have chosen so you have to adjust it every time you restart the game. The same goes for loadout...
    -Number of weapons you can use is a joke...
    -Respawns are the worst in the series. In 90% of cases it will spawn you between enemy soldiers or tanks
    -Turret is bugged. You cannot place it on some flat objects, and i cant count how many times ive been shot because it didnt deploy. But you can put it in places where it is literally levitating... (Probably forgot few things here but there is so many that it is not possible to remember everything) In general the best review for this game is the fact that i have more fun playing portal servers on old maps than playing 2042 maps and game modes...

    As beta felt like an alfa, this feels like beta, lacking a lot of content and features and it has a lot of glitches. And because of "cannot load persistence data" everyone who was stupid enough like me to buy gold or ultimate edition should receive some kind of compensationas this is the worst Battlefield game for now.    … Expand
  12. mooty
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    Lacking leader boards, there's barely any destruction on maps and it's filled with bugs like not being able to revive team mates, and team mates not showing markers so you think they are enemies. There's also only 2 game modes on All Out Warfare and the load out menu is terrible. Don't buy this game yet, it's not worth it.
  13. Denu187
    Nov 13, 2021
    1
    This game just isn't ready for launch, there are allot of bugs, the map design is just horrendous, far too big and empty. The sky scrapers certainly look like an old retro game, square and texture slapped on it. I've tried to get into it and like the game but I'm really struggling. The feel for the game play, the sluggish aiming system, the low powered weapons makes it hard work. The gamesThis game just isn't ready for launch, there are allot of bugs, the map design is just horrendous, far too big and empty. The sky scrapers certainly look like an old retro game, square and texture slapped on it. I've tried to get into it and like the game but I'm really struggling. The feel for the game play, the sluggish aiming system, the low powered weapons makes it hard work. The games maps are just far to big and encourage a sniping battle and stale mate. This has got to be the worst launch of a Battlefield game ever released.… Expand
  14. Katzetami
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    I was so exited to play this game that I preordered it months ago. I am a battlefield fan since bf2. The beta was ok for a beta. But when I start playing the final it made me really sad. - **** graphics (even forca has better textures for the surroundings) - bad gungame - boring and liveless maps - 4!!! Assault rifles

    I requested a refund and maybe buy it after some fixed for 20€ in a    I was so exited to play this game that I preordered it months ago. I am a battlefield fan since bf2. The beta was ok for a beta. But when I start playing the final it made me really sad. - **** graphics (even forca has better textures for the surroundings) - bad gungame - boring and liveless maps - 4!!! Assault rifles

    I requested a refund and maybe buy it after some fixed for 20€ in a sale. I guess it will be around Christmas until it will be in sale since it sucks so much.    … Expand
  15. jakedj44
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    No campaign and the multiplayer is terrible. Horrible graphics, horrible gameplay. Worst Battlefield I've ever played. It was so bad I asked for a refund from Microsoft store.
  16. L33R
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Terrible game. This isn’t Battlefield anymore it’s just a generic shooter with no identity. How a company can create some of the greatest shooters ever 10 years ago and then release this bug ridden mess of a game is beyond me!!
  17. armada91
    Nov 14, 2021
    4
    I often times will defend a developer based on the sole fact that I know the devs are usually just following orders and it isn't really their fault. In this case, while I feel the same, I think it is a known issue with DICE and EA that the development staff is not properly heard when it comes to the state of the game.

    There has never been a more understandable time to delay a product.    I often times will defend a developer based on the sole fact that I know the devs are usually just following orders and it isn't really their fault. In this case, while I feel the same, I think it is a known issue with DICE and EA that the development staff is not properly heard when it comes to the state of the game.

    There has never been a more understandable time to delay a product. Companies have been trying to so hard to feign ignorance of that and claim that the game will come out right when everyone first thought it would and that just isn't the case anymore. This game needed another 6 months, easy. A year would've made this THE Battlefield to beat. More playtesting. More network/beta tests. Halo is raising the bar for what is expected and what CAN BE DONE when you give the game time to blossom.

    To corroborate my experience: some games I can't start (Breakthrough, mainly) because it just doesn't load the game. Often times my customizations for my character will be wiped when a game starts and all of my loadout options are blank. I try to hold RB to access my radial menu and it flickers before turning off. 50% of the time I can't revive someone as no prompt is shown. The hit registration might as well not exist, and some weapons are just clearly imbalanced. As I said, this would have been a perfect experience in a years time. I can't recommend this right now.

    For the first time in a very, very long time, I genuinely felt cheated by buying into this game. By the time it is worth the money I invested in it, it will be 1/4 of the price. I'm definitely salty.    … Expand
  18. sT3ls
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    It’s **** Now dice is king of triple **** development. So strange cross play without kmb and advanced settings for controller. Lags all the time. Error when u wanna play. Many mechanics work with bugs. Dice, PLEASE LOOK AT ACTIVISION. They did good cross play. Call of duty has support of kbm and it doesn’t break balance, good aim assist, and I CAN DISABLE CROSSPLAY FROM GAME’S SETTINGS!!!
  19. Christianumm
    Nov 14, 2021
    1
    They game is terrible, maps are extremely wide open with no cover, no team play, no one revives and the only ones who have ammo are the snipers, you don’t have team chat, map flow sucks which in turn causes everyone to just go to one objective, no satisfaction when killing an enemy, ONLY two game modes on the base game, portal is subpar and I would say much more fun than the base game andThey game is terrible, maps are extremely wide open with no cover, no team play, no one revives and the only ones who have ammo are the snipers, you don’t have team chat, map flow sucks which in turn causes everyone to just go to one objective, no satisfaction when killing an enemy, ONLY two game modes on the base game, portal is subpar and I would say much more fun than the base game and that isn’t say much since it’s the exact same gunplay no matter what era you choose. The vehicles are over powered , overall the game just looks like a mobile game and just seems like they were trying to use the same model as cod to cash in on the specialist which is a gimmick, almost no one uses the abilities other than Irish who actually puts cover down. As someone who has been playing since bc2 this game makes bf5 look like a god tier game. Time for dice to stop ignoring the fan base that plays their games years after release or risk losing their fan base… Expand
  20. Subv3rsiv3F1ghT
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    The jet flying mechanics are garbage compared to previous titles, the rubber banding makes it impossible to dogfight, the hitreg is broken.
    Bring back the old classes (RECON, ENGINEER, MEDIC, SUPPORT).
    They delayed the game and didn't added a campaign for this?
    I give this game a 3 because portal is worth it
  21. Sushirman
    Nov 15, 2021
    4
    First, how can you rate a game as good or great if the most dynamic, balanced, and solid gameplay is based on the legacy of previous games and it's only a small portion of the whole content?
    Second, bugs and glitches: you'll experience various problems, from being unable to change loadout, spawn, control settings, etc. to game crushes. It's like beta-version, and the previous one gotta be    First, how can you rate a game as good or great if the most dynamic, balanced, and solid gameplay is based on the legacy of previous games and it's only a small portion of the whole content?
    Second, bugs and glitches: you'll experience various problems, from being unable to change loadout, spawn, control settings, etc. to game crushes. It's like beta-version, and the previous one gotta be called "open alpha" for sure.
    Third, gameplay. It's boring. Maps are HUGE and most of the combat usually happened somewhere in the middle while the rest of the area is abandoned. Map design produces total chaos of those certain spots of a battlefield, and sometimes it is not fun at all. Tornadoes and stuff, for instance, are more like just visual effect than actual game-changer like some of levolutions in BF4 or behemoths from BF1 were. Hazard Zone is just pathetic, Dice should remove it and rework. Oh yes, no voice chat.
    Fourth, I played on Series S, and on that machine, 2042 looks not good at all. Runs smoothly at stable 60 fps but textures and resolution are blurry and have sharp edges especially on long-range objects. I believe that Series S can do it better if developers optimize the game.
    Finally, maybe in the future 2042 became a really good game. But right now it's just an unfinished shooter with a lot of troubles and mediocre game design.    … Expand
  22. bandero
    Nov 16, 2021
    3
    This game feels like a cheap attempt to cash-in on the Overwatch hero system to sell skins to rich children. The game is buggy and the class system is gone, along with destructions and weapon variety in order to get the game out before the holidays. This used to be my favorite multiplayer series but I can no longer support it. Save your money and time and don't but this title.
  23. 200ft
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    This is a disgrace. NEVER BUY THIS GAME. please, I dont even know where to start. It is just ectremely bad. Thank you Ea and Dice for destroying another beloved franchise!
  24. hawk6754
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
    Seriously... who are these people saying this game is amazing let alone good. This is not just the worst battlefield to date, but it is also one of the worst games I have ever played. They have essentially removed any semblance of what a battlefield game is.

    The graphics are horrendous. BF1 ( a what 7 year old game?) has better visuals operating on an older console. No scoreboard???    Seriously... who are these people saying this game is amazing let alone good. This is not just the worst battlefield to date, but it is also one of the worst games I have ever played. They have essentially removed any semblance of what a battlefield game is.

    The graphics are horrendous. BF1 ( a what 7 year old game?) has better visuals operating on an older console.

    No scoreboard???

    The menus are a nightmare

    No roles?

    Seriously. This game needed about another year in the over or more. This was clearly just an EA/DICE money grab.    … Expand
  25. Johnnybravo8125
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    The game is missing core features such as in game chat and even the scoreboard...
  26. tiXxi44
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    This game is unfinished and boring. Performance is bad, gunplay feels clunky, portal browser servers have minimum 100ms ping, its just horrible.
  27. Siskus17
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Menu:
    First off, BF 2042’s menu setup is a rip-off of CoD Warzone’s. Its menu designs, its main menu, its side menus, its player card system, its customization, and its background. EA went lower than anyone could have expected and actually ripped off Activision of all companies thinking that either no one would notice or no one would care. The customization menu is completely bugged, I can    Menu:
    First off, BF 2042’s menu setup is a rip-off of CoD Warzone’s. Its menu designs, its main menu, its side menus, its player card system, its customization, and its background. EA went lower than anyone could have expected and actually ripped off Activision of all companies thinking that either no one would notice or no one would care. The customization menu is completely bugged, I can change my loadout names and my Attachment Loadouts but nothing else; even at level 10 everything is greyed out and unavailable including Specialist customization. The options have a 50/50 chance of working, I have had moments where I cannot change any options mid-match and got stuck with uncomfortable settings until I relaunched the game. There is no quality/framerate mode in the menu, which doesn’t exactly matter given that the graphics look like they’re in 1080p and the framerate is between 24FPS and 50FPS depending on how much you are planning on participating in the game; yes, I triple-checked, I do have the Series X version installed. There is no means to disable Crossplay which is disgraceful considering how much of an advantage it is to have a set-up that can actually run the game semi-functionally and how out of control the hacker situation has already become.

    All-Out War:
    There are 2 modes. 2. Conquest and Conquest-Rush There is no option for private matches unless it is Vs. AI. The core issue with both modes is the 128-player limit: the sectioning of control zones into separate points does not matter when 64 players are going to storm a single point whether or not it makes tactical sense. With a 128-player limit the maps feel smaller than ever because there is not enough environment outside of the control zones, so while the maps themselves are enormous there is only enough of what I will call a “playable area” for maybe an 80-player limit. I was going to go on a long tirade about this concept, but simply put BF 2042 does not have the map design quality necessary to make a thrilling and memorable experience for 128 players. The new initial spawning is confusing to say the least, it allows you to select vehicles in the load menu but from what I’ve seen it just ignores your choice and deploys all players as infantry regardless and spawns in 8 default transport vehicles for 64 players, which means roughly 20 players per team will play the first several minutes of a match while others are forced to either run or redeploy to play a part in any of the action. I was only able to changes specialists and loadouts once per match in the 5 matches I played which makes it impossible to experiment with different styles of play against different opponents. The specialists make the implementation of hardcore modes a pipe dream as the indistinguishability of 10 characters in a game of 128 makes target ID impossible. Rao, the hacker, is one of the many crimes against balance EA and DICE have committed as he can completely disable vehicle weapons and countermeasures for about 6 seconds and scrambles player HUDs to an indescribable severity with no cooldown in between the hacking tool’s uses except for a 4-second cooldown on something or someone that was recently hacked and his passive, which maps and tags the teammates of nearby enemies he kills, means that if a Rao kills one of your teammates while you are sneaking near them, you lose. This kind of imbalance exists in all specialists, Rao is just the only one I personally main.

    Hazard Zone:
    There’s nothing really much to say since the 1-minute queue time, 4-minute load time, unskippable 2-minute cutscene, 1-minute pre-game screen, and 30-second deployment cutscene bored me by match 2. Match 1 was cut abruptly short when the AI 1-shot my teammates and I from 300m away, so I guess it literally is just Escape from Tarkov.

    Portal:
    They have completely disgraced the memory of 3 of Battlefield’s most famous titles by giving the character classes we all love and remember passive abilities that make them utterly broken. I uninstalled it after looking at the Portal character screen. I do not remember much of it, likely due to my brain already trying to repress it, but I remember seeing that snipers from all three titles instantly ping anyone that shoots them and Anti-Tanks and Demolitions regenerate explosives the same way tanks do.

    All and all, do not buy this game because there was not enough thought or effort put into it to justify the outrageous price. It is disgusting that EA expects us to just shut up and buy and I just cannot do that any longer. Battlefield’s future is bleak and I expect we will be seeing heavy layoffs at DICE in the months to come.    … Expand
  28. splashyDIAMOND
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Battlefield Battle Royale scraped into a mess. Greedy devs wanted warzone money. That's it!
  29. Sarabya
    Nov 15, 2021
    0
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  30. DawsBaws
    Nov 17, 2021
    1
    Big disappointment. It's never been clearer that EA and now unfortunately DICE git a taste of that "Mobile Game Money". Very shallow game, for example...not a huge catalog of guns. It's actually really sad if you go BF3 and BF4 and see the shear amount of weapons on that game.

    No skins other than an immediate reward and one skin for the very end of a challenge. This game is set up to be a    Big disappointment. It's never been clearer that EA and now unfortunately DICE git a taste of that "Mobile Game Money". Very shallow game, for example...not a huge catalog of guns. It's actually really sad if you go BF3 and BF4 and see the shear amount of weapons on that game.

    No skins other than an immediate reward and one skin for the very end of a challenge. This game is set up to be a season pass cash grab. REST IN PEACE BATTLEFIELD. You guys were the ones to challenge Call of Duty. But as soon as EA got a hold of DICE...it was over. Rip to another franchise.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 4 out of 18
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 30, 2024
    40
    Destruction is still cool, and in the end I have to give the creators credit for the fact that the much marketing-washed akedo has its moments. Everything else that made a good Battlefield is completely missing, and that chase for record-breaking size or player count is really a poor substitute for well-designed maps, rich content in the form of game modes, and certainly no substitute for the original class system that the gameplay has always relied on in the first place. [Issue#317]
  2. Impulsegamer
    Dec 6, 2021
    52
    Battlefield 2042 is a huge disappointment for gamers and the Battlefield franchise. Had this been the product of an indie developer, then this might be a different story as it would be understandable how a game like this could be the product of an independent studio that doesn’t have enormous corporate backing. Instead, EA pumped more resources into creating a CGI film that acts as the only real source of storyline context than ensuring the game was going to live up to the enormous amount of hype they were trying to create. I hate saying such negative things in my reviews, but when a game developer can’t be bothered to even try and live up to it’s own legacy, then I have to call it as I see it and for that very reason, I don’t recommend this game. Not even the nostalgia or temptation of ‘Battlefield Portal’ is enough to save this game from itself.
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  3. ComicBook
    Dec 3, 2021
    40
    Battlefield 2042 absolutely should have been pushed back by EA and DICE to some point in 2022. Instead, the version of this game that is currently available has been virtually unplayable for me at times since first releasing. Even beyond this, though, some of the key design changes that DICE has made in Battlefield 2042 don't feel for the better. Rather than improving on the core Battlefield experience that fans loved with Battlefield 3, 4, or Bad Company 2, 2042 is a bloated husk of its former self that is trying to recapture some semblance of its previous glory. As a fan that has been playing this series for well over a decade, Battlefield 2042 is a massive disappointment that I struggle to think is even worth saving.
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