Battlefield 6: Explosive multiplayer – The Hindu

Beavis and Butthead run around doling out headshots to soldiers with cat heads, then break out into viral TikTok dances. We are not talking about Fortnite or Call of Duty, but a first-person shooter with great mechanics for military campaigns and modes, making its latest entry in the Battlefield series.

After a successful beta, Battlefield 6 offers a realistic approach to military-based multiplayer in the form of its signature Conquest modes, bringing cutting edge destructive tech that is now a big part of its gameplay.

Battlefield 6 does have a single player campaign, but that is not worth your time, or why you should get this game. If you are curious, The story is set in a near future where NATO has been disbanded and replaced by a new paramilitary outfit called Pax Armata. You play a soldier, Dylan Murphy, who is the sole survivor of a surprise hostile takeover by Pax, that leads to the destruction of the NATO base he was stationed at and the killing of his team.

Now, Dylan is assigned to a new outfit called Dagger and jets around the world to counter Pax’s masterplan, whatever it may be. 

Buying Battlefield 6 for a single player, is akin to going to a biryani joint and ordering plain rice. Think of these wargames between Dagger and Pax Armata as an excuse to practice for the main event, the multiplayer. The campaign does a great job as a glorified tutorial, letting you try out mechanics, guns, vehicles and environmental destruction to get you ready to rumble.

While past games have had better campaigns, Battlefield 6 is a major comeback for the series that had lost its way after the excellent Battlefield 3. The only metric that matters is jumping into a warzone with 63 other players. 

First off, the original four classes are back — Assault, Support, Recon and Engineer. All of them retain what made them exciting in the first place, with a healthy dose of diversification in their skill sets to make them even more useful. Assault players are frontline fighters, packing an extra weapon to even the odds. The Engineer excels at repairing vehicles with their new weapons and gadgetry to take down enemy vehicles. The Support class, my favourite, is adept at reviving fallen soldiers, intercepting grenades and suppressing fire with light machine guns. Lastly, Recon is the usual sniper class, with a few class-specific gadgets. 

While all of these may seem pretty normal, it is the wrapping around these classes that give them true weight. In several modes, just the act of reviving teammates at a crucial capture point can help turn the tides of victory. Similarly, an Engineer keeping your damaged tanks up and running can save time on the field.

The best part is the game is how it celebrates every class; usually support characters are never lauded, with kills being the main metric. Battlefield 6 is rewarding to play, as any class. As someone with bad aim, I know I can rack up the revives with some deft movement skills. 

The true hero of the game is the technology, which has been unique to Battlefield for a while, except you can weaponise it now. That tech is its destructive environment, where almost everything can be blown to smithereens. It is so much fun eliminating a nest of snipers camping on a top floor by bringing down the building itself. Even little things such as breaking through windows and getting to enemies by shooting away walls are quite exciting here. 

While the maps are not as big as those in Battlefield 3, I noticed in that game, the action would always be concentrated in certain points, with minutes passing by sans any enemies in sight. Battlefield 6’s maps are smaller, but they move the action better. It also brings a level of chaos that is only enhanced by the excellent sound design. By chaos, I mean a good chaos, with so many things unfolding at the same time.

Another excellent feature that has been added is the ability to go prone. So many sneaky kills are racked up going prone among bodies; cheap kills yes, but you can do that now. The movement, vaults, jumps and even the gunplay is snappy, fluid and wonderfully executed — one beautifully polished multiplayer package.

The biggest flaw is EA’s maintenance of Battlefields, often taken over by aimbotters (individuals who purchase hacking software that allow kills across the map or shooting through walls, enemy detection and more); Battlefield 3 and 4 fell to the same evil. There have been reports of something similar in Battlefield 6, so let us hope EA and DICE are committed to purging the errant software, to create a fair game.

In a sea of similar live service games, Battlefield 6 will scratch that big military itch you have always felt with sporting cutting edge technology that not only looks pretty, but is an absolute blast to play.

Published – October 21, 2025 10:47 am IST