After a leak this morning, EA has taken to the official site to announce Battlefield Hardline...
Well, here's another big game announced before E3 (it's like they're taking away some of the magic of it all, isn't it)? EA has confirmed that the next Battlefield will be named Battlefield Hardline and not Battlefield 5.
EA officially revealed Hardline via its official site, simply displaying some assets and stating that the game will be fully revealed June 9th at 12 PDT (E3).
The game will be a cops-and-robbers shooter scheduled for release this fall, and has been under development via Visceral Games (they did Dead Space for those keeping score at home).
Executive producer at developer Visceral Games Steve Papoutsis wrote, "The game launches this fall and it’s a brand new series in the Battlefield franchise, set against the backdrop of a genre we all love – the war on crime and the battle between cops and criminals. We’re excited to be going into more detail soon on the ways we’re adding new twists and turns to the foundation of Battlefield multiplayer and more about how we’re bringing our strengths at Visceral to single player"
Obviously, we don't have all the details yet, but the thoughts of cops-and-robbers sounds cringeworthy to me. I'm not writing it off yet, though, but only because it is Visceral Games, and we have some seen great Battlefield games in the past from EA (obviously not talking about Battlefield 4).
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BF4 was total $h!t. A bug ridden flop from launch. That being said you would think they would want to shy away from any kind of controversy with the launch of a new game, and put as much distance between them and negative press as possible. With this new format, Cops Vs. Robbers, I am assuming that one side will play the police and one side will play the robbers in the skirmishes. So it is only a matter of hours, maybe days, until the whole "video games glorifying the killing of police officers" debate fires up again. EA is going to be once again in the spotlight and at the epicenter of a new media war focused on one of their products.