Even Star Wars: Battlefront 2, which rightfully attracted controversy around its launch, has been turned around. Turning around struggling games has become something of a DICE speciality, starting with Battlefield 4 - one of the more disastrous launches in recent years, yet a game that went on to become one of the most cherished multiplayer shooters of the generation. Being a Battlefield 5 player has been, more often than not, a deeply frustrating experience. Firestorm made a belated debut earlier this year, and offered a fascinating take on the Battle Royale genre, though support seems to have petered out, while elsewhere new maps were only being added sporadically. It launched just under a year ago, undercooked and with support in its first few months patchy at best. True to form, Battlefield 5 has offered a bit of both. When Battlefield's bad, it can be really, really bad. Or maybe you just fell foul to one of the many glitches to be found. The one where you're running aimlessly across a vast map, not entirely sure where to head next, and having your long journey to a capture point cut short by some sniper camping out on some faraway hill. Of course, there's the other side to Battlefield as well. It's breathless stuff - and when Battlefield's sandbox delivers, there's nothing quite like it. There's a magic to be found when zipping to a distant capture point in an armoured vehicle, your friends in tow as you man the rear guns and take potshots at the fighter plane above that then comes screaming down in a streak of fire and crashes into a building, sending it tumbling to the ground and taking out the squad that was camping there. When Battlefield is good, it's really, really good.
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