battlefield hardline it shouldn’t be a battlefield game
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Battlefield Hardline: It
Shouldn’t Be a Battlefield Game
http://www.gamebasin.com/news/battlefield-hardline-it-shouldnt-be-a-
battlefield-game
Last week we were treated to a leak of the new Battlefield game, Battlefield Hardline. Now, I love
Battlefield games as much as the next guy, but this is a mistake. I am going to tell you why and
hopefully when it releases, you will think: “Wow, that guy, Zack, is pretty good.” With Battlefield
Hardline will come a story about cops and robbers, but going by the trend of Battlefield games, the
story won’t be about planning and performing heists or stopping heists as the police force, it will
be an unnecessary convoluted, overly scripted and linear experience that will play into the slow
drip of dopamine that keeps you satisfied until the end of the game. You will never be more than
just satisfied, but that’s all that they need to keep you playing. However, the developer is Visceral,
not DICE, and amongst the drivel of games they have made there are some gems like the Dead
Space series that shows some promise in delivering a good game. A simple story that attempts
something other than the usual AMERICA, GUNS AND BROS approach that most modern shooters
go for will save this game a lot of grief.
However, I am however‐ing the however, leaving this article in an absolute mess of grammar and
pointing out that this game is part of a brand. A brand that will want this game to meet with the
usual AMERICA, GUNS AND BROS approach. There will be limited room for experimentation and
expect a story that aims to reach for ambition but falls flat on predictability and constant explosions,
slowly numbing excitement into boredom. Battlefield Hardline isn’t going to a typical Battlefield
game but it is going to be forced to conform as much as possible and it won’t benefit from it. For
example there is less emphasis on vehicle combat which is basically removing the one thing that
sets Battlefield away from other shooters. Battlefield marries infantry combat with great vehicle
combat almost perfectly and that’s what makes Battlefield games brilliant. Battlefield Hardline is
removing, what is essentially, the heart of the game.
What the game should be is a game that uses the Frostbite 2 engine to make a shooter of its own
merit, a game in a similar vein to that of Payday 2. It should be a game where you are a man, a man
in trouble. Good start, right!? You are then pushed to rob shops and slowly push towards robbing
banks. It should be mostly linear but has some variations on how you approach a heists to make
you feel like you are on your own journey. In short, Battlefield Hardline, should be called GTA:
Payday (if you were to stick to labelling of franchises to games)! Well, the name could be worked
on a little, but the gameplay should be GTA: Payday: a first‐person, heist simulator game with plenty
of action but also plenty of planning and team play. My worries for the game are that the Battlefield
name will push marketing and sales, but will raise expectations. Those expectations will then be
met by a game that may not even be average in terms of playability. Of course, this is early days. I
could be entirely wrong, but that is fine. All I ask of you, my friend, is that if you are excited by this
game then be excited! BUT, be careful. There are all kinds of marketing bullshit going on here. Don’t
fall victim to the marketing bullshit!
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