Battlefield V - FIFTEEN SCHILLINGS

Bought Battlefield V in a recent sale. Although it delivers the standard Battlefield weight and momentum, it's surprising how incomplete the game feels. The problems I'm routinely encountering are the kind of things you might excuse at launch - missing stats, bugged-out results screens, halted unlock progress - but not now, seven months after release. Still, no other first-person shooter gives you the sense that you're a lumbering mass struggling with their weapon (in this case a STEN sub-machine gun). That you have to fight against the controls and aiming profile somewhat is half the appeal - it gives the game a terrifying sense of reality.

Battlefield V - NACHTHEXEN

Battlefield V's reveal is an unbroken gawp at the kind of chaos players can hurl themselves into when the game releases in October. Developers DICE have jettisoned any sense of narrative storytelling for their pitch, electing to build their advert around the sequel's refresh focused gameplay systems instead. Naturally, a sizeable band of people (men) with absolutely nothing better to do have taken it upon themselves to cry foul at the inclusion of female combatants. Apparently it's just not on having women in historical war games. Facts be damned eh? Considering my Call of Duty: World War II avatar has been a brown-haired lady since launch, I'm hoping that I've inadvertently wound up a few of the bores who stick with the square-head male default.