DO NOT BUY Battlefield 2042 - Terrible Game

Hello, welcome back to a new video game

review. So I've been recently playing the

brand new Battlefield 2042, and as an avid

fan of the Battlefield series and tactical

military shooters in general, I just had

to play this new game and tell you what I

thought about it. Now currently it's not

officially released to the public, but you

can play the game for 10 hours if you sign

up to the EA Access Play thing, which

basically just gives you access, early

access, to some of their games. And you

get discounts and some bonus things as

well for only $3.99 a month. No, I'm not

sponsored. I just thought I would share

that information with you. Now, my initial

impressions of the game were it looks

visually fairly pleasing. Some of the

particle effects and the weather effects

and the maps do look quite impressive.

But after that, you start to realize that

the game is a little bit disappointing and

kind of boring. Okay, so where do I start?

If you've ever played a Battlefield game

before, you'll already know what this new

Battlefield game is going to be like.

It's exactly the same as every single

Battlefield game that has ever existed in

the past. You have a big map with a bunch

of points you've got to capture, and you

have a load of vehicles, different

classes, and it's quite a large number of

players who are in every game. It's 64

versus 64 players. Now the most annoying

thing about the game is the maps are just

way too big. They're really big and the

points are separated with quite a lot of

distance, and this is okay if you're in

one of the vehicles. The problem is it's

pretty unlikely you'll be able to get into

one of the vehicles at the beginning of a

match because there's 63 other players.

They all bum rush towards the vehicles,

grab them, and drive off straight away

without even waiting for everyone else to

hop on board. And they just drive off

straight to the point and you get left

behind. So what happens is you end up

getting stranded, left behind, wasting all

this time running towards the checkpoint,

the closest point that you have to

capture. And it takes ages to run and

traverse across the map without a vehicle.

It's really frustrating. Now there's quite

a large variety of vehicles, but none are

kind of surprising or unexpected. You get

the bog-standard tank, bog-standard

helicopter, bog-standard army jeep with

mounted guns on it. It's all very

bog-standard. Nothing is very new, even

though the game title is called

Battlefield 2042. None of the weapons or

vehicles feel very futuristic at all. And

to be honest, I really dislike the

vehicular combat, because if you're not in

a vehicle, you're basically a sitting

duck. If you want to play as infantry,

you are really vulnerable. You get run

over, you get gunned down, you get shot

down and blown up by the tanks and the

jeeps and the Apaches. You really don't

stand a chance, and it's really

frustrating that the people who managed to

get into a vehicle before you have this

huge advantage over you. If you're an

infantry, you'll just end up dying and

respawning and dying and respawning over

and over and over again. So if you want to

rack up some points and kills, your best

bet is to quickly get into one of the

vehicles, hop into the side guns, and just

participate as a passenger or a gunner.

Let someone else handle the driving whilst

you man one of the massive guns or the

machine guns or the turrets on the side.

Now, as an avid fan of Rainbow Six who has

played over 6,000 hours on Rainbow Six, I

wasn't quite impressed with the shooting

gameplay in Battlefield 2042. It's very

bare bones and basic. It just doesn't feel

as satisfying as Rainbow Six does. I'm not

sure why, but the feeling of the weapons

and the shooting just isn't quite up to my

standards, and I felt more frustrated than

satisfied whilst playing the game.

There's also different classes in the

game, so you've got your typical assault

class, engineers, sniper, medics, and they

don't really feel very different from one

another. There doesn't really seem to be

much point in obsessing over which

specialist you choose or which perks you

choose. Basically, they all have a main

weapon, a pistol, a grenade, and a missile

launcher, and then some kind of ammo or

med pack crate. They just don't really

feel very distinctive from one another.

You can't really tell much difference

between which specialist you choose apart

from the weapon loadout. I mean, the

sniper is pretty distinctive, but apart

from the sniper rifle, all the other

weapons are very samey. You got the LMG,

the assault rifle, you've got like a

marksman rifle as well. You also have

these automated sentry turrets, which are

very kind of boring. You see them in every

single shooting game. And then you also

have these kind of Boston Dynamics robot

gun turret things, turret things, which

are— I guess they're pretty nifty, but

they're not that interesting after a

while. It's just the game doesn't bring

anything new to the table. It doesn't

really bring anything groundbreaking or

astonishing to the shooting scene, and it

just feels a bit, bit bland, to be honest.

It just feels like the previous

Battlefield game, which was set in World

War 1. I think it feels exactly like that,

but just with a reskin in a modern setting

and modern weapons and armory. Now, the

map selection is quite varied, but the

maps are just pretty dull to look at.

They're not very exciting, they're not

very visually artistic. So you've got this

oil rig, it's in like Arctic area. You've

got this farm which has a massive tornado

flying around which sucks in airplanes and

aircraft, which is pretty interesting

actually in the beginning. And you've got

this South Korean city metropolis kind of

place and Dubai. And all of these maps are

just kind of dull. So Dubai is basically

just like a sand desert with a bunch of

skyscrapers. The South Korea map looks

kind of bleak. It's just like a bunch of

soulless skyscrapers, and it's all just

concrete and cement and glass. And the Oil

Rig Arctic Zone, it's just, it's just

Arctic Zone with a load of snow. Compared

to Rainbow Six, which funnily enough also

has a South Korean map which is far

superior to the South Korean map in

Battlefield 2042, I just really was not

impressed with the maps. Even though the

maps visually look distinctive from each

another, they are very same in many ways.

Basically it's just an open plain with

bunch of skyscrapers scattered here and

there. There should be more depth to the

maps, I think, and more intricacy and more

intimacy. It just feels way too open than

a bunch of random skyscrapers dotted here

and there. And when it comes to the

interior of the buildings in the game,

which you can go inside the skyscrapers,

you can ride the elevators to the rooftop

and then You can do some sniping, you can

jump off and parachute down, which is

pretty nifty. But the inside and the

interior of the buildings in the game are

very bland and bare compared to Rainbow

Six, which has interiors that are just

full of detail, full of little objects and

items you would expect to find in that

kind of environment. But if you go into

any of the buildings in Battlefield 2042,

it's like there's no stuff inside of

there. It's like they all moved out and

they took all the stuff. And maybe there's

a few random items here and there, like a

box, a computer screen, a bin, but it

just feels so empty and bare. Like they

didn't take any time or effort to, to

flesh out the interior of the buildings,

and it just looks very unappealing,

very unconvincing, very boring. And very

boring is basically how I felt the entire

time whilst I was playing it. After you

get over how cool it is seeing all the

vehicles around you and all the other

players rushing towards the points to

capture and all the epicness of the

fighting going on around you. After that

wears off, you start to feel a bit bored.

It's just very repetitive. You spawn, you

head towards a point to capture, you

probably die, then you respawn, then you

die, then you respawn, then you die and

you respawn. Maybe you'll get into a

vehicle, do some vehicular combat, but

after you've done that for a while, it

does get very tedious. And it doesn't

really matter what kind of class you pick.

Maybe you want to do some healing and be a

medic it doesn't really seem to make a big

difference if you put down some med packs

because everyone just respawns straight

away after they die anyway. It takes like

4 seconds to respawn. Why bother being a

medic trying to heal people and revive

people? It just feels like a massive waste

of time. So yeah, I wasn't really that

impressed with Battlefield 2042. I'll play

it a bit more, see if my mind changes,

see if I can get any better at the game.

Maybe then I'll enjoy it more. But as of

now, I just don't really feel that excited

to play it. And it's a bit of a shame

because I was quite looking forward to it

and hoping it would be my new game. But as

it is in its current state, I would have

to give it a 6.1 out of 10. I don't think

I could recommend buying it at this price

point at £50, which is pretty expensive.

Maybe at £25 if it comes down in price a

little bit, maybe then I could recommend

it. I don't really know how they could

improve the game. I reckon having roles

as your class playing a more important

part in the game would be quite fun

instead of— just feels like everyone's the

same. Everyone's just assault rifle,

marksman, and they're just shooting each

other. There's, there's no kind of healer,

tank, DPS kind of holy trinity

setup gameplay that actually matters in

the game. So yeah, that's what I thought

about it. Um,