Battlefield V Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

4. It's Buggy As Hell

Though it's not quite Battlefield 4, DICE's latest game is one buggy mess, at least at launch. Though I've not discovered anything game-breaking so far, there are plenty of little annoyances that completely tank the experience.

Sometimes, for instance, when you first begin a match the game can bug out and decide that neither the starting area or your squad-mates are valid spawn points, leaving you lingering in the map overview until you quit out and find another match. Other times one "day" in Grand Operations will refuse to end, leaving you in limbo for hours blinding racking up kills and deaths until everyone leaves. This might be the same match of Grand Operations that disables your controller vibration for... some reason, leaving you to play the entire match without any rumble feedback.

These are all on top little visual hiccups, like characters spawning in with no arms, or as low-poly models that have faces like Snake from MGS1. It's the kinda thing that will obviously be improved in time, but after the delay, it's kinda frustrating to still have them drag the experience down.

It also adds to the general feeling that...