Battlefield 6 (2025): The Review

Overview

Battlefield 6 feels like a much-needed slap back onto the right track, a reminder of what this series is supposed to be: big, loud, glorious video game warfare. Sure, it’s not perfect and the single-player campaign is pretty forgettable, but the improved gunplay and movement, paired with the beefed-up environmental destruction, turn every map into a playground of beautiful chaos.

Score: 8 out of 10

The Positives ✅

Let’s get the obvious win out of the way: Battlefield 6 absolutely nails how it feels to play. Movement is smooth, gunplay is chunky and satisfying, and firefights, especially in the big modes, are pure chaos in the best possible way. Running infantry is still about half the Battlefield experience, and whether you’re flanking as Assault or playing dentist with skulls as Recon, the guns have that familiar heavy, punchy feel the series is known for. Vehicles are just as fun: tanks are still big, dumb, unkillable metal fridges with cannons, and a good pilot can basically become a flying natural disaster.

Environmental destruction is back to being more than just a marketing bullet point, and it actually feeds into how you play. Blowing holes in buildings and reshaping the map mid-match makes vehicle pushes and coordinated attacks way more interesting. Progression also feels like classic Battlefield: play more, unlock more toys, repeat until your social life files a missing persons report. Yes, it takes a while, but the pace of matches makes it feel less like a chore and more like “oh no, it’s 2AM again.”

And then there’s the performance, which is the real plot twist. On a mid-range PC, the game runs shockingly well. No framerate drama, no constant stuttering, no “compiling shaders for the 18th time today” ritual. It’s honestly sad that this feels like a miracle in 2025, but here we are. Battlefield 6 actually runs like a finished product, and that alone deserves a slow clap.

The Negatives ⚠️

Let’s talk about the campaign, aka “Greatest Hits of Military Movie Clichés, Vol. 37.” It’s not offensively bad, but it’s so predictable it might as well come with a fortune teller. You can usually tell exactly when things are about to go wrong, who’s about to have a dramatic moment, and what kind of dramatic moment it’ll be. And most of the time, you’re right. The story tries to look important and emotional, but it mostly feels like a fancy tutorial for multiplayer classes wearing a Hollywood costume.

The writing is a bland soup made from every war movie you’ve ever half-watched on TV. Compared to the Bad Company crew or Battlefield 3, this squad is… fine. They exist. That’s about as strong a compliment as I can give them. The whole thing lacks any real punch and ends up feeling like an afterthought instead of something you’ll remember in five years.

Then there’s the UI and HUD, which feel like they were designed by someone who hates humans. Finding game modes takes longer than it should, “Quick Match” being called “Custom Search” is just unnecessarily confusing, and the in-game icons are way too small by default. You do get used to it, sure, but you shouldn’t have to. Also, while the audio design is great as always, the campaign had some noticeable audio desync, which kind of kills the vibe when explosions and screams can’t agree on when they’re supposed to exist.

Visually, it’s… good, not great. Battlefield still does spectacle well, but some animations and textures feel a bit dated compared to the competition. It doesn’t look bad, it just doesn’t always look like it wants to punch above its weight.

The Experience 🎮

Here’s the thing: I used to live inside multiplayer shooters. My friends and I would jump into whatever was new, on whatever console, just to run around and click heads for hours. Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefront, you name it. But Battlefield? Battlefield was the one that kept me hooked. Bad Company, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, even 1943, those games made every match feel huge, like you were a tiny idiot inside a very expensive war movie.

Over the years, watching the series stumble has been… painful. So when Battlefield 6 started promising a return to form, I had to see if DICE still had it in them. And honestly? They mostly do. The campaign didn’t impress me, and I pretty much saw every “surprise” coming from a mile away, but the moment I jumped into multiplayer, something clicked. That old feeling came back. Charging into contested points, getting blown up, respawning, doing it again, and somehow still smiling like an idiot.

What really sold me was how easy it was to just keep playing. Match ends, new match starts, suddenly an hour is gone. Then two. Then three. Unlocking new attachments, trying new setups, messing around with vehicles, it all hits that same addictive loop the old games nailed. And the fact that the game runs well the whole time just makes it even harder to put down.

So yeah, Battlefield 6 isn’t perfect. The campaign is forgettable, the UI is annoying, and there are things to nitpick. But as a multiplayer experience, it feels like Battlefield remembered who it is. And that was enough to make me want to sprint straight into gunfire again, like it’s 2013 and I have no responsibilities. I’d recommend it both to newcomers who want to taste large-scale chaos and to veterans who’ve been waiting for a real excuse to come back. And honestly? This time, it feels like a pretty good one.