It is time to do war crimes in a cool way. Battlefield 6, EA's big loud military-themed shooter that earned a coveted 82% from PC Gamer FPS czar Morgan Park, is free-to-try for a week. The trial period runs from yesterday, June 30, up until July 6.
The trial gives you access to five modes and four maps, which I will lay out in a conveniently bulletpointed form below.
Modes:
- Tactical Obliteration
- Breakthrough
- Conquest
- Escalation
- Casual Breakthrough
Maps:
- Railway to Golmud (Which, again, our Morgan really quite liked)
- Cairo Bazaar
- Contaminated
- Eastwood
Actually accessing the BF6 free trial is a little weird. Or at least, it seems slightly odd to me, as a man to whom the live-service world is scary and alienating. You don't get it by visiting the Battlefield 6 page on your PC storefront of choice (which is Steam, let's be real), you get it by heading to Battlefield Redsec (also available on the Epic Games Store and the EA App) and downloading that.
Redsec is, ordinarily, EA's portal to its already free-to-play version of the BF6 experience, but now you'll find some of the premium, full-fat stuff in there too. For a limited time only, of course.
I think you might want to check this one out. Why? Well, let me shamelessly quote our Morgan once again, who sang the following paean to BF6's unfussy chaos: "Place your palm on the pavement, and you can feel the low rumble of a hobby yearning for what we loved 15 years ago: the spectacle of scale, the unserious chaos of vehicular warfare, red grunts vs. blue grunts, the permission to make your own rules, and an environment where the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun."
And if you fall in love with things exploding on big maps, then whaddya know? Battlefield 6 is 50% off on Steam for the ongoing summer sale. Almost like they planned it.
