Anyone else play the Battlefield V open Beta last weekend? I managed to get Monday night on it after I randomly noticed it existed. It's closed now
Yes, it's yet another online FPS but I thought it was one of the better ones I've played recently. I'll tell you for why.
Small digression first. I was hugely happy when Battlefield Bad Company 2 got put on XBox Gold a couple of years ago, as a bunch of people started playing it again - there were a few months of bliss, but now it's a wasteland of empty servers. BBC2 is without question the finest multiplayer FPS of all time (yes, yes it is. Objectively so). I had many happy evenings blowing buildings up and running around like a joyous loon. There's nothing quite like you and four randos being the last tickets left and then taking down 30 tickets from the red team to win. By collapsing buildings on them. The level design was, without doubt some of the best ever. Arica Harbor will go down in history. The weapons were all meaty and you weren't crippled by not having ground out enough XP to get the "best" weapons.
In essence yes, it's basically a FUCKING GREAT GAME.
So Battlefield V, despite being YET ANOTHER WW2 game, somehow managed to capture a bit of that B:BC2 feeling. It might have been the snowy map I spent most of the evening on being fairly reminiscent of White Pass or Nelson Bay in B:BC2, but it just played so well. I also hugely enjoyed nailing a Tiger with a static AT gun.
895 BOOMs out of 1000.