Battlefield Vietnam squeaks into the 80th percentile only due to our confidence that the bugs and performance problems will be fixed by patching. If we scored the game based on how it is now, it'd be in the low 70s. Nobody should put up with that kind of lag in a game that's completely focused on multiplayer, certainly not in the sequel to a game which had the same issues at launch.
BFV's lack of originality can't be excused - not only isn't it all that much different from the original, it isn't even clearly better than the Desert Combat mod. On the one hand, we're glad that DICE didn't fix what wasn't broken, but on the other, there's still the vague feeling that the Battlefield games are rough around the edges and could use something to spruce them up and put them over the top.
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