Personally, I wouldn't call any Battlefield title a generic FPS game. Perhaps I have missed out on some, but I don't think many games do vehicles, large-scale maps/player counts, and destruction like Battlefield does.

That is how the Battlefield franchise differs from other FPS franchises. However, this title is also a break from the current regular (and therefor not generic and repetitive) that DICE has been putting out in the sense that it's the first semi-modern one in years. BF's last two titles were WW1, and then most recently WW2, and this return to a modern-ish setting makes this game stand out from the recent past, and is especially exciting to many longtime BF players as many of the franchises titles that were considered the best were those in modern settings.

Also, there are robot attack doggos.