Battlefield 6's greatest strength is its intensity, and that's served in spades whether the maps are big or small

Battlefield 6: A Recon crouched aiming a sniper, with two decoy dummy next to them in dirt ditches.

Rory Norris, Guides Writer

(Image credit: Future)

Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps in the launch version.

This week I've been: trying to unlock every weapon in Battlefield 6 before Season 1.

It's been almost four years since the last Battlefield game, 2042, and nearly a decade since the last truly great one. The multiplayer FPS landscape has changed a lot in that time, flip-flopping on concepts like 'hero' characters, movement, and more, but Battlefield 6's insistence on returning to its series core was certainly the right thing to do. For one, it stole the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta's thunder, hitting a peak of 747k concurrent players on Steam alone.