‘Battlefield Hardline’: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know (Interview with Creative Director Ian Milham)

6. What will the game’s single-player campaign focus on this time?

We really wanted to focus on character and player choice. There’s no world-war plot this time around. Just cool cops and criminals facing off with characters you want to spend time with. So the story is clever and quick. On the gameplay side, we wanted to provide as much variety and choice as possible. The enemies are smarter and players will need to be clever to win. That means being cool under pressure and not just guns blazing all the time. It means scouting out places for clues and combat advantages.

7. Were there any real life crime stories or TV shows that inspired your game’s plot?

We were more inspired by the crime drama TV shows we love than real life, which usually doesn’t get as big as we’d like. The show Justified was a huge influence, as like us, it features cops and criminals who have history together and are always playing mind games with each other. The dialog is memorable, and the cops are sometimes shadier than the criminals.

8. Give us a brief overview of the game’s many multiplayer modes.

We’ve got more new multiplayer modes than ever before! There’s Hotwire, where high speed action and squad teamwork carry the day as groups drive and chase through epic chaos. Heist, where coordination and teamwork take the lead in attack and defend criminal attacks against vaults. Blood Money, where back and forth fluidity as both sides coordinate and change tactics dynamically as they target a central money pile. Crossfire is about tense competitive gameplay and communication as a small group tries to escort a key member to escape. Rescue is where Multi-Round strategy and-tense pace dominate as cop teams try to rescue hostages from dug-in criminal teams. Plus old Battlefield favorites Conquest and Team Deathmatch are back.

9. What are some of the newer firearms and vehicles longtime players will get introduced to?

All the vehicles in Hardline are new, twenty seven of them, in fact. And the emphasis this time is on speed. So fast cars, fast bikes, speed boats, helicopters, plus some wildcards like fanboats and fuel tankers. In the weapons and gadgets department, we’ve tried to tune for personality, so every gun has a role and playstyle. We’ve also added grappling hooks and zip lines to open up the action and let players get around maps faster.

10. What features make up the DLC package offered for the Premium edition?

Almost too many to list. Premium is where we really get to dig deep on aspects of the game and go big. Many more maps, modes, vehicles, and other cool stuff that focuses on specific aspects of the cops and robbers fantasy.

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