Vehicular Combat as a genre has a rather obscure video game genre for many years since about the year 2000. However, Battlefield has been one of the few games that has been focused on vehicular combat as part of the gameplay here.
One of the things that I have been really enjoying about the vehicles is how they can be customized now. This gives them even more strategic depth which was missing in the older games.
Another aspect is how there is more attention giving to countermeasures and how they are integrated with the combined arms aspects of the Battlefield games. Instead of vehicles having this sense of being separate from other parts of gameplay.
The gameplay is truly cinematic.
One of the things that I have seen in YouTube videos is that the gameplay flow is consistent and exciting. We have so many interesting narratives of players partaking in shows of amazing abilities. It is one of those games that seemed optimized upon release and it wants you to play it.
The vehicle gameplay is enough for the price of admission. I think that this combination of vehicular combat and FPS shooter combat is why the franchise has been able to endure and thrive.
Battlefield 6 was released on October 10th, 2025 and has been a great success. Some 6.5 million copies have been sold and it is already one of the top selling games of the year. It is a title that the series deserves here. Many players are happy with what they have been given and this is one of the few examples of AAA games that are actually successful and the developers were not promising to fix a game. They are now improving it, not patching up problems that should have been looked at before the release.
The game is polished and complete. What glitches there are in the game are small in comparison to more recent releases. The game has many high skill players but I enjoy the thrill of being in a new game which reminds of me my middle school years playing Battlefield 2. Battlefield 6 is refinement of that mid 2000s game and I have been really impressed with the way how the graphics look and the way how the soldiers move. This is truly a game of the year and I highly recommend it to players.
The Battlefield games are now in their third decade and its been quite a journey. The games have always had some degree of success but they have been growing in popularity with streaming services such as Twitch making gaming even more communal than it was in the past. Battlefield 6, the newest entry in the series, is going to be going back to Modern warfare that hasn’t been since Battlefield 4 in 2013. Such a huge gap means that many players will be experiencing such a game as novelty over a continuation of their gaming habits.
Battlefield 1’s success with World War I FPS mechanics and gameplay made the franchise return to older warfare. Battlefield 2042 was an attempt to return to Battlefield 2142, without the Battlewalkers and had a mixed reception upon release. Battlefield 6 is return to the series’ modern style that began with Battlefield 3 in 2011. Such a return will evoke many memories among the older generation of gamers who buy this game as well as younger players.
It is going to be competing with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. As of right now, it seems that Battlefield 6 will win on quality maybe not on the quantity of its sales.
The screenshots that I took of the beta are not of the official game coming out in October but the game was already of a high quality at that time. The beta was very interesting and I felt the game had a seriousness which is missing in Battlefield 2042. While I like Battlefield 2042, especially some of the maps, the operators make you feel like a mercenary instead of a soldier. Seeing some of the characters with those skins just made it look goofy and distracting in a sense.
What Battlefield 6 had already in the beta was that the gameplay just seems more weighty.
The vehicular combat has always been an attraction to me in the Battlefield games. Endless infantry combat gets boring and is easier to manipulate by cheaters. The combined arms approach of the Battlefield games make them more interesting to watch on YouTube and Twitch in comparison to other games. Seeing players attempt to outwit each other while infantry and vehicles interact with one another is more interesting than seeing infantry only maps. While I am aware SaintsQuarter is a infantry-only map, Battlefield 6 seems to be attempting to give infantry combat a better squad focus over the run and gun approach of the Call of Duty games, which is really harkening back to the arena shooters of Doom and Quake of the 1990s era. There is a place for both, but I prefer combined arms over engaging people in houses and warehouses.
My main focus for my Battlefield 6 gameplay is going an Engineer. I want to focus on the vehicles. Infantry only will be support as I perfer slower gameplay vs most of the people you see on YouTube; they are generally the higher tier players who also have to put on a good show. They tend to be kind of players who are very aggressive about the score. My main focus is putting in some RPG elements from my experience with playing Skyrim. I have always been serious about the winning over the score, so I tend to be more careful, conserve my lives and focus on helping the team win over my score.
I look forward to getting the game. It has been some time since I have played an FPS in a serious way. The open beta rekindled by love of the genre and I hope that the game’s release is smooth and helps to revitalize the series.
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