Remi Segal
Staff Writer
Ever since gaming began, first-person shooters have been on the front lines of fun in the gaming industry, and this year, developer company DICE teamed up with Visceral Games to give us the latest edition of their award-winning FPS series Battlefield©, with Battlefield: Hardline.
Battlefield Hardline takes the franchise on a whole new route, bringing cops and robbers to the streets, and into banks, and in the countryside. Previously, the Battlefield franchise had been exclusive to war-zones and Marines versus enemies of the U.S., but now things have changed. Instead of showing the same fight over and over with improved graphics, publisher EA decided it was time for a change.
Anyone who’s spent time with a Battlefield game knows what to expect from the series. Battlefield games aren’t run of the mill Call Of Duty games; Battlefield is more advanced in almost every way. For one, Battlefield is more realistic; featuring guns with actual recoil, large maps that can change due to Levolution, and even graphics that are more realistic.
The gameplay experience from Battlefield is also more intense and adrenaline fueling, for it’s non-stop; there is danger around every corner. In Hardline, every choice involves risk. Whether it’s taking a shortcut across a map, or peeking from cover to get a sight of the enemy, more than likely bullets will be fired. This aspect of taking risks in the game fuels the player with adrenaline and gives him the necessary fighting power required to push ahead.
Of the whole franchise, Battlefield Bad Company 2 was perhaps the best game of the series, and Battlefield 4, the last Battlefield, was perhaps the worst; even though it brought about some new cool ideas, mainly Levolution. Battlefield: Hardline takes the best out of these two games, and converges them into one big beautiful masterpiece. For example, gameplay in Hardline feels like Bad Company 2, but works like Battlefield 4. More than all, however, Hardline is its own game, and a very good one.
Hardline adds new features which were not previously seen in prior Battlefield games. One new feature is that instead of racking up XP in multiplayer to get new unlocks, players now obtain cash each game, and can use this in-game currency to buy and unlock the items they want. The biggest feature brought by Hardline, however, is the new factions present in the game; cops and criminals. Players now take the action of war to the streets by either playing as a cop trying to defend the American Dream from those who seek to exploit it, or by playing as a criminal trying to fulfill their idea of the American Dream by outsmarting the system.
Hardline features an intense single-player campaign, and an online multiplayer unlike anything seen before by the franchise. It’s safe to say DICE and Visceral put a lot of effort into this game after the recent disappointment of Battlefield 4.
Battlefield: Hardline was released both physically and digitally on March 17 for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
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