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Battlefield V review — an unfinished work of art

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 12 min

Battlefield V is one of the prettiest games you’ll see that juxtaposes the horrific fighting of World War II with beautiful landscapes. As you wade through the golden grass of Arras in France or move through the green bogs of Nijmegen in the Netherlands or walk along the waterfront in Rotterdam, you’ll stop in your tracks and admire the scenery before you go back to fighting.

Electronic Arts’ DICE studio has launched this visually arresting game on EA Access, and it is debuting broadly on consoles (reviewed here on Xbox One) and the PC on November 20. But even when it shows up on that day, I fear it’s going to feel like an unfinished work of art.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.