Battlefield 4 is a pretty neat shooter. With an environment that is mostly able to be manipulated by the players. Whether that be because a tank blew up a house and it collapsed, or maybe it’s me driving a tank and not realizing there’s a concrete barrier behind me, plowing right through it (I can’t drive). It just feels nice, the gunplay, the teamplay, the classes you can play and when you get this game on sale, you get all the dlcs because it's the premium edition. Which means even more maps, I picked this game up for like 5.19? But the prices of the game can obviously vary depending on sale, but if it's not too expensive on sale it’s a pretty good buy.

One important thing about battlefield 4 is the class system. You have 4 classes, each class can use a carbine, shotgun and dmr, but at the same time there is a class specific type of weapon per each class. There is Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon, each having a unique weapon class and 2 gadget slots. Assault having assault rifles, defibs and medpacks and overall being the medic type class alongside some other things. Engineer having pdws, being the repair guy for your friendly tank and rpg’s which are great for taking out tanks and other vehicles, and the repair tool can also deal damage to enemy tanks if close, Engineer has a bunch of different rpgs, and some other things too, but they're pretty much anti tank guy/assistant to friendly tank. Support has lmg which is good for sustained fire, but they also provide ammo to the team and have c4’s, alongside some other things. Then you have recon which has snipers and can laser designate things (which basically means specific rpgs/things can lock onto it and do more damage) and also has a radio beacon which can make people on the same squad spawn. What is interesting about this though is that not one person has everything. Did you play support? What if you're low on health? Did you play assault? What if you run out of ammo? A tank spots you? Did you play recon? What if you need ammo, health, etc. Did you play engineer? What if you need ammo/health? Basically teams just have to work together to provide everything to everyone.

There’s also a squad system per team. 5 people can join in a squad and you can spawn on squad members (I believe it can vary by server). You have the squad lead who can be like, defend this objective, or tell you to attack an objective. You have the before mentioned respawn beacon, which only squad members on the same squad can spawn on that respawn beacon. Basically if you aren’t on the same squad as the recon who placed the respawn beacon you can’t spawn there. It’s pretty neat though as there is like teamwork with the whole team, but also the whole squad and you can spawn on your squad and work with them, to help your whole team as well for capturing objectives. There is also a commander that can join on each team, which I've never played I believe.

The environment is destructible. There's levolutions where if something big gets destroyed, (ex: the tower in siege of shanghai collapses into the floor, where now rubble is, where a building used to be) the level can change. Things in the world can be destroyed, whether it be glass, concrete pillars, some harder than others, and some things aren't destructive. For example the flag on objectives isn’t. The world overall feels like you're in an actual battlefield, it may look less destroyed at the beginning, then comparatively at the end of the match you may see the environment more destroyed, trees fallen, pillars destroyed, buildings collapsed. There are also in general a lot of maps due to the premium edition you're getting, alongside the base maps, you're also getting the dlc ones.

There are a lot of vehicles, too. They can be in the air, ground, or water. It depends and there is a lot of variety, and stuff you can unlock too which can change how you use them. You can change the guns on your tank and play a totally different playstyle and equipt several different types of guns, for your secondary and primary. You can be a jet and fly through the air and just cruise and kill things. You can be in an attack boat and kill things while on water. You can be in an apc and be able to go in the water and on land. This isn’t mentioning all the vehicles, like tanks, Rhib boats, transport/attack/scout helicopters, hoverboats, bikes, and more.

There is a decent amount of grinding in this game, I remember trying to get a pistol I want. Let's say you wanna get a pistol, you have to get kills with pistols to get points for the pistol, same goes for upgrading any other guns like shotguns. Same for tanks/vehicles. You also need to unlock all the equipment for each class alongside guns. There are battlepacks, which can give you a 25%, 50%, 100%, 200% xp boost which’ll boost the xp you get from kills.. Some guns/gadgets you can’t even get by just using the class or gun, and you have to do specific assignments for each one. It can be a lot, it just depends on what you wanna get, or if you just wanna play the game for fun.

There is also a campaign, it's about 6 hours long according to howlongtobeat website, I don't really recall how much it took me, as I played the multiplayer most of the time. You do get weapons from this campaign though that you can use in the multiplayer.

There is also a marking system. Where you press q to mark something and it appears on friendlies with a red triangle thing at the top of the thing you marked. Some servers may change this setting.
You also have emblems, which each person can customize in an external website, called battlelog battlefield 4 . You'll see it on your gun and any vehicle you drive, which is pretty neat. There's also a website with custom battlefield emblems too to use.

Bugs

One bug I had was that punkbuster for a little bit kept kicking me out. It’s the anti cheat that battlefield 4 uses. Which it would for a little bit just kick me out whether it be when I loaded or the such. I reinstalled a while ago and it seemed to fix the issue. You can also as far as i'm aware also reinstall punkbuster too and see if it fixes it, if you ever have this issue.

The server browser is also sometimes funky and will display an incorrect number of players. It could display almost max and then you join and it's not so much almost max. You can also check this in battlelog for battlefield 4 though, and go to the server browsers to make sure its correct.

Overall though, on sale this game is great on sale. Fun to play and also destructible. It has a lot of maps, replayability and also in general is very good. It has a few bugs but overall a very good and fun shooter game.