"Only in Battlefield"

27 October 2025

1 min 46s

Combative comeback.

Is this the year 'Battlefield' beats 'Call of Duty'? Not only has 'Battlefield 6'—not the sixth game in the series, not by a long shot—trounced its predecessor, 'Battlefield 2042', in every department, but Electronic Arts is confident enough to take a leaf out of rival publisher Activision's book. If 'Call of Duty' can have squads of celebrities, so can 'Battlefield'.

Thus, we get actor Zac Efron, MMA fighter Paddy Pimblett, Golden State Warriors small forward Jimmy Butler, and country singer Morgan Wallen on the offensive. They get to play soldiers to the sound of 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' by Smashing Pumpkins… for about twenty-five seconds. That's right, folks—all four are blown up before anyone has a chance to shoot. Time to let the real experts take over.

It's a clear and obvious piss-take of 'Call of Duty' ads where celebrities have infinite health, infinite armour, and infinite lives. Even if what follows is your standard orgy of destruction, you understand that it's the classes (Assault, Recon, Engineer, and Support) and the day in, day out players who tackle those roles that matter, not star power.

Global

Electronic Gaming