Battlefield Hardline
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| Developer(s) |
Visceral Games Additional work:
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| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Writer(s) | Rob Auten Tom Bissell |
| Composer(s) | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| Series | Battlefield |
| Engine | Frostbite 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Xbox 360 Xbox One |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (XONE) 75.00% (PC) 73.88% (PS4) 73.16% |
| Metacritic | (PS4) 73/100 (XONE) 71/100 (PC) 71/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 6/10 |
| EGM | 7.5/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| Game Revolution |   |
| GameSpot | 7/10 |
| GamesRadar |  |
| GameTrailers | 8/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 8/10 |
| OXM (UK) | |
| PC Gamer (US) | 76/100 |
| Polygon | 7/10 |
| VideoGamer.com | 6/10 |
| AusGamers | 7.3/10 |
| USGamer | |
| VentureBeat | 85/100 |
Battlefield Hardline is a first-person shooter video game developed by Visceral Games in collaboration with EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in March 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Unlike the previous games in the Battlefield series, Hardline focuses on crime, heist and policing elements instead of military warfare.
Upon release, the game received a mixed critical reception, with critics praising the game's multiplayer mode, voice acting and accessibility, while criticizing the game's plot, stealth and narrative.
The focus of the game is the "war on crime", breaking away from the military setting that characterized the series. As such, the main factions in Hardline are the police Special Response Units and criminals. Players have access to various military-grade weapons and vehicles, such as the Lenco BearCat, as well as having police equipment such as tasers and handcuffs.
Hardline also uses the "Levolution" mechanic from Battlefield 4. For example, in the map "Downtown" players can send a construction crane crashing into the building, ripping down debris from the central buildings in downtown, which falls down on the streets of Miami. This time, every map features multiple Levolution events, both small and large.
Many new game modes are featured in Hardline, including "Heist", "Rescue", "Hotwire", "Blood Money", and "Crosshair" Mode.
Visceral Games ratified that the single-player campaign will not be linear and promised to deliver a better one than the predecessors. The campaign features episodic crime dramas where choices will change situational outcomes and gameplay experiences. As a cop, players can use multiple police gadgets and personal equipments. The police badge can be used in ordering criminals to lay down their weapons, the scanner is used to stake out a situation, identify high-value targets, log evidences, tag alarms, and mark other threats. To slip past unnoticed, players can use bullet cases to distract enemies.
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