Sometimes a game comes along at just the right time to chime with a huge audience – from Fortnite's pivot to a battle royale mode in the first place, to Call of Duty: Warzone's launch just as lockdowns started to spread around the world. That sort of lightning isn't easy to bottle, but I think there's a chance EA is in the process of doing so with Battlefield 6.
The first of its two open beta weekends just wrapped up, and I'm one of likely millions of people who dropped into it to check out how the game's shaping up ahead of its release in early October. I came away absolutely flabbergasted by the quality on show, and by a formula that might finally see Battlefield go truly head-to-head with COD in terms of popularity.
