If there's one thing you can expect from a Battlefield game, it's destruction. In our first moments with the newest addition to the series, we escaped from a sinking car by shooting out its windshield, blew up a looming helicopter, and slid off the roof of a crumbling five-story building, only to...

+ Stellar multiplayer; with Levolution and Commander mode adding to what's already great; + Great opening level of the campaign..

? When will DICE figure out how to make great single-player

The Battlefield series, with its 13 installments, has gone from WWII, to Vietnam, to the future, and then back to modern day combat, all within the last decade of DICE development.

Dynamic gameplay; massive scale multiplayer; return of online destruction and commander mode; solid graphics for PC and next gen; a lot of cheesy one-liners

A lot of cheesy one-liners; repetitive, boring campaign; AI interaction is like high school all over again; maps too big and graphics too complex for consoles

" Battlefield 4 " is definitely still an iterative experience, but it's one that at least shows direction and purpose. The more streamlined multiplayer, increased focus on destruction, and better image quality and frame-rate makes for a game that's better than BF3 in virtually every way, and at...

D.I.C.E. set out to do one thing with the Battlefield series and that is tell a compelling story through epic events and sequences that help shape the battlefield. Many will find things to love about Battlefield 4, as well as hate, but at the end of the day, it's one of the greatest first-person...

Battlefield 1942 is still my favorite entry in the Battlefield series. It pretty much blew away my expectations for an FPS game at the time, and even today, it still blows me away at how it was technically possible.

While Battlefield 4's next-gen outing offers something new and exciting in terms of multiplayer – 64-players – and in visuals – it looks fantastic and runs at 60 frames per second – the current gen version is more of the same, with no real evolution aside from a few instances of "levolution.

Parents need to know Battlefield 4 is a "Mature"-rated military simulation filled with extreme, realistic violence. Played from a first-person perspective, the single-player campaign and multiplayer modes are designed to make you feel you're right there in the middle of the action.

While the current-gen version of Battlefield 4 fails to match the sleekness and scale of its next-gen counterpart, DICE's achievements on the age-old hardware are commendable. There are the usual visual compromises: for the most part the frame rate hovers around its target 30FPS, only creaking when...

The game has the feeling of being primarily a Multiplayer game with an added Single player campaign only to teach you the basics and brush up your skills for when you get online

An Appetite for Destruction