Battlefield 4
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The single-player campaign features frequent strong profanity, including f-words, in soldiers' combat dialogue.
Realistic modern-warfare gunfire, explosions, and vehicle combat against human soldiers with blood spray; no gore or dismemberment.
The war-story campaign involves soldier deaths, sacrifice, and grim wartime situations.
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What it is
Battlefield 4 is a modern military first-person shooter with a short story campaign and a large focus on online multiplayer matches for up to 64 players. Combat is realistic: players use rifles, explosives, tanks, jets, and boats to fight human enemy soldiers across large maps with heavily destructible environments. Hits produce blood but not graphic dismemberment. The campaign contains frequent strong profanity and grim wartime themes such as soldier deaths and sacrifice. Online play includes open voice and text chat with strangers, where competitive trash-talk is common. The game has no sexual content, drugs, gambling, or in-game purchases in this edition.
How it's framed
The game frames combat as organized modern warfare between opposing militaries, casting the player as a soldier following orders and completing objectives; violence against enemy combatants is rewarded through scoring, unlocks, and rank progression, and the campaign presents its story through a lens of duty, camaraderie, and battlefield loss.
Details
- Developer
- DICE
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- Jun 11, 2020
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