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Here's a Narrated Look at Battlefield Hardline

Creative Director Ian Milham talks over a chunk of Battlefield Hardline's single-player campaign.

Aug. 13 2014

Posted by: Jeff

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Battlefield Hardline

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Battlefield... mmmhm
"Alpha footage"

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Looks alright. I'm probably the only person on the planet excited about the single player of this game (cause it just looks like modern day LA Noire). ;)

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At least your character talks.

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Looks promising. First time I've been actively interested in a Battlefield singleplayer campaign.

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Could there possibly be a worse time in US history for this game to come out?

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So, a linear FarCry game?

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What! You mean to tell me that piece of shit and stupid "girlfriend" set you up? Totally didn't see that coming.

The creative director also sounds like he's doing voice over inside a box.

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Well, it's not Bad Company 3 but I'll take it.

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Kind of a shame how generic this looks despite of the more open map design. Was hoping for something more tactical, since they promised something that was actually different, but I guess not.

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They probably should have been showing this instead of multiplayer.

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Having the enemies fly "don't thread on me" flags, I don't like that. I don't want political shit in my games. What's next, raiding the DNC? How typical of Dice putting this shit in their games. No, I don't want to pretend-invade Tehran either.

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They nail the evening time Crime Drama feel. Some interesting gameplay changes. But how much of it is just going to devolve into "Just shoot your way through dozens of criminal goons".

Doesn't look too promising.

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Haha I think it's funny how the main character is holding up his hand-cuffed hands at eye level.

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will definitely try to actually finish this campaign unlike the last two games.

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I'm pretty impressed by their willingness to touch a...difficult subject in US politics.

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I dig it.

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Nope! Not impressed by anything in this trailer. Battlefield isn't doing anything for me anymore :(

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I wish it's possible to complete the single player without killing anyone. I was in until he started the mayhem. It seems different enough from the usual run,cover and shoot campaigns so far.

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Just what I don't want in a Battlefield game, dialogue.

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I was already excited to play an FPS game that wasn't about being a military man. I really like the singleplayer content of FPS games, so it's great to see them putting some work into that part of it.

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Infinite handcuffs!

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This looks incredibly lame, just like the multiplayer Beta they canned a while back.

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@schlorgan: How does this look anything like LA: Noire?

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Anyone else has an audio problem? Dialogue is really muffled and balance leans heavily to the right side.

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@schlorgan: I agree that it looks alright, but I can't imagine how it could possibly be anything less like LA Noire.

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The campaign looks more interesting than BF4 at least.

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I don't understand who this game is supposed to be for or who wants this. Know what I would rather have? Resources still fixing the issues with BF4. They definitely should have made a bigger deal about this rather than the multiplayer though.

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So it looks like you will be playing the white dude again, with your trusty black wise cracking, but not quite as heroic sidekick by your side... or rather somewhere behind, while good ol cookie cutter McClane leads.

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@reelife said:

Battlefield... mmmhm

"Alpha footage"

To be fair, the audio seemed to be kind of rough in some parts, even for a trailer. For instance i only got Right Side Audio at the start.

But if the game gets less bio shock/deadspace later in the game, then i might be in. But i did like the joke about the nuke, nice MW joke.

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Having the enemies fly "don't thread on me" flags, I don't like that. I don't want political shit in my games. What's next, raiding the DNC? How typical of Dice putting this shit in their games. No, I don't want to pretend-invade Tehran either.

...I hope you're being sarcastic.

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@manicproblematic: Yep, good ol' Nick Mendoza. Super white guy name for a super white guy.

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Looks interesting. I still haven't beat BF4 single player yet though. The campaign reset on me half a dozen times so I gave up trying to play it.

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I'm already loving the writing in this game. But where do I know that black guy from?

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Anyone else has an audio problem? Dialogue is really muffled and balance leans heavily to the right side.

I think it's like that on purpose? You'll notice how the audio is fine once the narrator speaks.

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I have no idea what I think about this game so far. Though I will say I'm surprised it's only Alpha footage this far in. Hrm.

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I really hate how they keep talking like this is some sort of awesome police drama.

Putting a badge and taser into Battlefield 4 doesn't really change much.

Basically I wish visceral would have been given the chance to build this concept from the ground up.

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No lie, I thought the thumbnail on the front page was from a bad fmv game

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did that cop smacked a surrendered prisioner before handcuffing him?

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yay, game mechanics that are already two gens old.

Fuck these games.

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wow this game looks TERRIBLE. So generic, and now they allow you to handcuff people that have a 4 to 1 edge on you? wtf?

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Looks okay. Looks like a shooter campaign though.

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Hopefully all or most of the encounters in the game let you pick stealth or full on gunplay.

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@manicproblematic: The main protagonist is Nick Mendoza. I don't know many white guys who have the last name Mendoza.

Dude doesn't even look white. Set aside your SJW badge and just watch the trailer past the first 30 seconds.

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It just hit me. This is Far Cry 3, via Visceral Games.