Battlefield Hardline

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4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 957 Ratings

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  1. hooner
    Mar 25, 2015
    0
    The fact this game was ever released as a standalone, not as DLC, shows what a terrible state the gaming industry is in. This is a mod for a base game that is STILL broken (BF4). Buy this and you are perpetuating their ludicrous business models and saying you are OK with being milked by companies that don't give a **** about gamers. DICE/EA are the anti-gamers. Maybe people will sit upThe fact this game was ever released as a standalone, not as DLC, shows what a terrible state the gaming industry is in. This is a mod for a base game that is STILL broken (BF4). Buy this and you are perpetuating their ludicrous business models and saying you are OK with being milked by companies that don't give a **** about gamers. DICE/EA are the anti-gamers. Maybe people will sit up and listen when they **** up Star Wars Battlefront.… Expand
  2. TsarVadim
    Mar 26, 2015
    3
    This game is a RUSHed reskin of Battlefield 4, with less content. If you feel like paying 120 dollars for a premium version, don't and go buy 3 other games on sale on Steam because this is a big steaming pile of EA ****
  3. Gikori
    Mar 18, 2015
    0
    EA employees are on metacritic now doing damage control/lying about the game. This game is bad it is a mod of Battlefield 4 they want to charge 120$ for. They broke the game up and took some features and added it to premium as a day one dlc. They mocked COD then copied it. EA we don't want COD we want goddamn Battlefield.
  4. sierradog
    Mar 17, 2015
    3
    This game does nothing for me anyway. It's not fun. The gunplay is boring and the 'netcode' is still not improved. Honestly if it was 20 bucks I might say it's a buy, but at 60 dollars I would say pass on this one.
  5. h4lfbak3d
    Mar 17, 2015
    2
    Very big disappointment. Ive purchased every title in the Battlefield series and this is the worst. Its suppose to be a next gen game, however it LOOKS visually like Call of Duty. Not sure if they forgot that Battlefield focuses on realism and very real looking environments etc., but all the maps felt like they were something visually in Call of Duty. I am glad I bought through Origin andVery big disappointment. Ive purchased every title in the Battlefield series and this is the worst. Its suppose to be a next gen game, however it LOOKS visually like Call of Duty. Not sure if they forgot that Battlefield focuses on realism and very real looking environments etc., but all the maps felt like they were something visually in Call of Duty. I am glad I bought through Origin and got my money back. Very disappointed in EA and really hope Dice makes it right with Battlefield 5 or Bad Company 3, whichever is the REAL project. Hardline should have started its own franchise and stayed out of Battlefield.........… Expand
  6. troofserum
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    Been playing for 15+ hours and I am completely bored. It really kicked as for the first 10 hours though, but holy **** the mp maps have no depth and are simply ugly and have no heart behind them. In fact this whole game feels so empty in that regard. Recycled regurgitated poor quality waste of time.
  7. apragmatist
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    I really wanted to like this game...but sadly have to agree with other negative reviewers. Even if this was just a $15 DLC for BF4 (as it should have been) then I still wouldn't buy it...it's just that bad. If you are a BF fan then either stick with BF4 or buy it if you don't have it. Hardline graphics suck, campaign sucks, multiplayer is horrid...really disappointed that EA tried toI really wanted to like this game...but sadly have to agree with other negative reviewers. Even if this was just a $15 DLC for BF4 (as it should have been) then I still wouldn't buy it...it's just that bad. If you are a BF fan then either stick with BF4 or buy it if you don't have it. Hardline graphics suck, campaign sucks, multiplayer is horrid...really disappointed that EA tried to pull one over on gamers. Now I'm really getting concerned that EA and DICE are going mess up Star Wars Battlefront by delivering a game that is simply a reskinned BF4.… Expand
  8. PashaAlex
    Mar 17, 2015
    3
    As mindless multiplayer shooter it's pretty good, as single player game... unspeakably bad. Single looks like game from 2008 and a B-movie. Awful and totally not worth any money.
  9. monnq
    Mar 17, 2015
    10
    This game is just perfect. People who hate it are either paid by Activi$ion or just brain dead. This is a subtle mix of Call of Duty, Payday 2 and Battlefield. The multiplayer is like Close Quarters in BF3, which was nicely rated when it was released. The action is much more dynamic than in previous games, cause maps are smaller, not like in BF3/4 where you could camp e.g. on the mountainsThis game is just perfect. People who hate it are either paid by Activi$ion or just brain dead. This is a subtle mix of Call of Duty, Payday 2 and Battlefield. The multiplayer is like Close Quarters in BF3, which was nicely rated when it was released. The action is much more dynamic than in previous games, cause maps are smaller, not like in BF3/4 where you could camp e.g. on the mountains in Operation Firestorm map and snipe all the players walking around. The gadgets for all classes are nice, and the easter egg with sofa is just lovely :P… Expand
  10. Sevorast
    Mar 17, 2015
    6
    Been playing all day, and of course in the betas over the last few months, gotta say they really nailed it IMO. The hit detection is spot on, everything is really tight and responsive. The maps are varied, some are a bit smaller than Battlefield standard obviously, but each one is pretty much perfectly laid out.

    The modes are a blast, especially Hotwire which is just off the **** wall    Been playing all day, and of course in the betas over the last few months, gotta say they really nailed it IMO. The hit detection is spot on, everything is really tight and responsive. The maps are varied, some are a bit smaller than Battlefield standard obviously, but each one is pretty much perfectly laid out.

    The modes are a blast, especially Hotwire which is just off the **** wall bonkers at times. Heists are great fun, and surprisingly the single player campaign is really well done as well. I'm only a few hours into the campaign but so far the story is compelling and the tactical and methodical nature of the single player is a refreshing diversion from the chaos of multiplayer.    … Expand
  11. tomchee
    Apr 17, 2015
    0
    This is not Battlefield, at all. Doesn't fit for BF players cuz this is too CoD like, and doesn't fit for CoD players, cuz its is too complex for them. (They just wanna shoot around).
    So this game is game is a fail.
  12. pjaguilar
    Apr 24, 2015
    2
    Wow.. i mean wow... and not in a favorable way...

    I was totally excited to see the new Battlefield... and you get to.. SHOW YOUR BADGE!!!... man, what an exciting way of doing things... what's next? Battlefield: the adventure of the supermarket? (where you can push your cart and buy groceries... and the top of the story will be paying with coupons?) May be they didn't listen to the    Wow.. i mean wow... and not in a favorable way...

    I was totally excited to see the new Battlefield... and you get to.. SHOW YOUR BADGE!!!... man, what an exciting way of doing things... what's next? Battlefield: the adventure of the supermarket? (where you can push your cart and buy groceries... and the top of the story will be paying with coupons?)

    May be they didn't listen to the market research team?    … Expand
  13. Chr0m3
    Apr 5, 2015
    0
    'IT'S A COCKYDOODY RESKIN FOR BF4!'~ Angry Joe 2015. Downgraded graphics from Battlefield 4, absurd lack of content and overpowered preorder exclusive weapons, don't even bother.
  14. SabbathNZ
    May 24, 2015
    2
    Where to start....I have played every rendition of Battlefield, starting with 1942 way back when.... The only one I did not put serious hours into was 2142..... BF4 I have 1,400+hours playing..BF3 a similar amount...somewhat of a BF fan boy you could call me..... Hardline? A risky break from traditional Battlefield, and a risk that has sadly failed. I participated in the Alpha and Beta,Where to start....I have played every rendition of Battlefield, starting with 1942 way back when.... The only one I did not put serious hours into was 2142..... BF4 I have 1,400+hours playing..BF3 a similar amount...somewhat of a BF fan boy you could call me..... Hardline? A risky break from traditional Battlefield, and a risk that has sadly failed. I participated in the Alpha and Beta, and pre-ordered the game "hoping" they would get it right... Sadly they didn't.... Whilst Hotwire can be fun to play, its about all their is to the game, the weapons are unbalanced, with Guns like the K10 awesomely OP comapred to the rest (fastest rate of fire, and the most damage per bullet??), It needed a massive patch from day one, EA admitted it, but 2 months down the track, nothing, nada zip zero.... Player base? non existant, if you want o play Hardline, buy it on the PS4, its the only platform with any semblance of a community playing it. Yes it is still "fun" and the single player a bit better than other BF titles, but in short, it just leaves a sour taste in your mouth..... so much so I hopped on EA support and asked for a refund after 40 hours gametime, and 2 months after purchase..... Suprise suprise, they actually refunded the money too.... A sure sign that all is not well with the title.... If you have money to burn, then buy it, you might play it now and again, if you are on a budget, buy something else.... This game is not value for money, and is just a massive disappointing for any "true" BF fan. It should have been released as optional DLC for BF4, as that's all is really is....
    Dont hold your breath for Battlefront either, EA and DICE seem to have lost the plot lately.... Heres hoping some other studio use's the Unreal 4 engine and makes a decent FPS game    … Expand
  15. Wigspliter
    May 1, 2015
    0
    I loved BF for 10 years. I hated BF4, DICE just totally ruined everything with that crap, and it took them a year to even say sorry. Screw them, this game is just the same thing. As a beta tester, and final player, they just took a big garbage can and stuck it up our loyal fan asses, again. Any tester that sits here and tries to tell you how "original and cool" this one mode is.... isI loved BF for 10 years. I hated BF4, DICE just totally ruined everything with that crap, and it took them a year to even say sorry. Screw them, this game is just the same thing. As a beta tester, and final player, they just took a big garbage can and stuck it up our loyal fan asses, again. Any tester that sits here and tries to tell you how "original and cool" this one mode is.... is a freakin dev. Screw your lies DICE. YOU PRODUCE CRAP AND RIP US OFF. I paid 130 bucks for bf4, totally upgraded my computer thinking it would fix the crap crashes, didn't work. This game is just a skin from bf4. booo DICE. thanks for ruining my favorite game of 8 years DICE. Hardline stinks of DICE btw. REEKS OF THE GOOFS.… Expand
  16. Mitsie
    Nov 30, 2015
    0
    Not bad for a Beta Release.. oh wait the game has been out a year and its still full of bugs !
    shoot at people and the bullets ricochet in thin air.. its a bad copy of counterstrike, payday 2 and call of duty all in one.. don't buy it whatever you do.. friends told me not to get it and i ignored them, well that was a silly mistake..i only paid £12 for it a year after release, but still    Not bad for a Beta Release.. oh wait the game has been out a year and its still full of bugs !
    shoot at people and the bullets ricochet in thin air.. its a bad copy of counterstrike, payday 2 and call of duty all in one.. don't buy it whatever you do.. friends told me not to get it and i ignored them, well that was a silly mistake..i only paid £12 for it a year after release, but still feel robbed..    … Expand
  17. spyH
    Apr 23, 2017
    8
    Playing this game only for it's Single Player part has been a great experience. It's basically a playable cop TV Show that I enjoyed a lot!

    The only downside was the annoying concept of starting a game through my browser and the ton of graphics glitches that still exist.
  18. Mastodon
    May 7, 2015
    0
    Quite honestly back in my Half Life 1 days I saw single custom MAPS that had more content than this game does. I only bought this game for my review channel on youtube... as all early indications were the game was going to be rubbish. The gun control feels similar to an old MS DOS shooter.... stiff and rigid, no real control. The single player campaign might as well be non-existent. It'sQuite honestly back in my Half Life 1 days I saw single custom MAPS that had more content than this game does. I only bought this game for my review channel on youtube... as all early indications were the game was going to be rubbish. The gun control feels similar to an old MS DOS shooter.... stiff and rigid, no real control. The single player campaign might as well be non-existent. It's not just a bad campaign.... it's a bad campaign with horrible AI. Then comes the multiplayer - the only part of this game that was even a tiny bit fun.... however you only get a couple hours out of it before you're just like "okay.... is that it?" And yes.... that is it. Oh no one last GREAT feature of this game is how easy it is to send DDOS attacks to other players. I literally got DDOSed only 147 minutes into my playtime. And that was the end of my attempt to enjoy the game.

    I really don't like giving any games a zero, but considering the wealth of the people who produced this game - Battlefield Hardline must have really required absolutely NO effort.... and therefor earns my first ZERO ever... and hopefully my only one.    … Expand
  19. benimaro
    Aug 20, 2015
    1
    This game is like any other tablet games it does not belong to the original battlefield series i regret for buy this ;/ i would like to stay playing in battlefield 4 at least u don't have to show ur stupid badge all the time and hit the right Button in the right moment to show what ? that you are smart and fast !! stupid game i can't play this anymore akhh
  20. Ornetuis
    Aug 7, 2015
    2
    I can't believe it had me spent 120€ for this game, it's lacking a lot of content to make up for its price tag ! thus making this game a cash grabbing trap from EA, not to mention the extreamly poor player count on the community in PC making servers 98% empty!
  21. stevegamer3
    May 3, 2015
    0
    This game is overall just a simple low effort reskin of BF4 with so much less content that EA thinks its ok to charge $60, $70, and $120 for. It isn't at all worth any of that
  22. BowlSk8erMn78
    Jun 5, 2015
    0
    This game was such a waste of money, after playing it for only a month I'm back playing BF4 which I will be playing until BF5 comes out. Hardline maps feel really small, time to kill you is too quick, hardly any guns to choose from, there are no tanks, ships, etc..It feels like this game should have came out 10 years ago. bottom line, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME on Hardline.
  23. hokiwubab
    Aug 30, 2015
    0
    -The game is full of incredibly large and unskippable cutscenes (also boring, by the way).

    -The game is full of Quick Time Events hell. Even then, I tried to play it, but could not, because: The poor FOV makes it absolutely unplayable. The FOV is equal to the gun aiming FOV. It made me sick. Now, some games have bad FOV, but you can play it with some effort, and it is just an    -The game is full of incredibly large and unskippable cutscenes (also boring, by the way).

    -The game is full of Quick Time Events hell.

    Even then, I tried to play it, but could not, because:

    The poor FOV makes it absolutely unplayable. The FOV is equal to the gun aiming FOV. It made me sick.

    Now, some games have bad FOV, but you can play it with some effort, and it is just an annoyance, but is not the case here.
    This game cannot be played with this poor FOV, and there is no hack, no file edit, not cheatengine table to fix it.    … Expand
  24. BigMouth
    Sep 6, 2015
    0
    All magazine are hold by same max. 10 persons. So its easy to pay Boss of these magazine to have good critics.
    Its what have do EA for this (@*$$ "game" it's clear.
    But sure you can pay all "journalist" to say how this )@$#$)$ is wonderful, player are not stupid. Well real one who know games. And you can pay magazines to be your side, it's the people who decide if you game is good or    All magazine are hold by same max. 10 persons. So its easy to pay Boss of these magazine to have good critics.
    Its what have do EA for this (@*$$ "game" it's clear.
    But sure you can pay all "journalist" to say how this )@$#$)$ is wonderful, player are not stupid. Well real one who know games.
    And you can pay magazines to be your side, it's the people who decide if you game is good or not.

    This "game" is not one. Just @(#)#. Just good to go to the toilet full of s**t.

    EA have gold between hands but want to change that to liquid gold. They like smell liquid gold.

    EA kill Battlefield license and copy (really retardly) kid game Call of Duty.
    EA boss pass too much time with w***e!    … Expand
  25. alialbash
    Sep 11, 2015
    0
    One of the WORST GAMES i ever played !!!! BATTLEFIELD 3 is much better . i always get kicked without any reason the gameplay is **** i just spawn and keep dying, HOW THEY GET POSITIVE ranking ????
  26. Fizl406
    Jan 13, 2016
    10
    I really like this game its one of my favourite battlefields ever. Im really glad I bought this game (for full price, but its worth it). Problem of this game is community..
  27. playking
    Apr 18, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this is a good game but they should not name it battlefield if they started a new series with this game it will have a great success but there is some bad things on it like the bug in episode 8
    and when you are not a cop and you are trying to frees some enemies hthe player rais his hand empty with out his badge and the is other glitches but the game is not bad -_-    … Expand
  28. james2003
    Aug 22, 2015
    4
    Having stomached the singleplayer for an hour, I wonder if this is a movie or a first person shooter. Because in all honesty in the first hour there was 15 minutes of gameplay and most of that was tutorials. I don’t know about others but I seriously dislike this “sitting along for the ride” controlling the mouse and randomly staring at unimportant features of the game world as I listen toHaving stomached the singleplayer for an hour, I wonder if this is a movie or a first person shooter. Because in all honesty in the first hour there was 15 minutes of gameplay and most of that was tutorials. I don’t know about others but I seriously dislike this “sitting along for the ride” controlling the mouse and randomly staring at unimportant features of the game world as I listen to the constant droning of the story.

    Battlefield does this a lot, mixing the idea of storyline and game, but it has yet to achieve the balance. Personally I wish it would stop altogether, you don't see people signing up to the BF servers for the storyline and it’s true about fps games in general. Storyline is an added benefit, if done well can be the cherry on top, but by no means important in this game genre. So don’t give me story immersion and then force me to sit through it, because I’d rent a cop movie if I wanted that.

    So the added features for this game is the Arrests, as instead of shooting you have the ability of a “peaceful takedown”, a novelty that wears off in a matter of moments. Seriously if you as an officer of the law booked in that many criminals in one day your colleagues would hate you for the paper work you had just descend on them. So what is the point of arrest in this game? Just the points, the moral alternative that has no purpose except tricking you into believing that game and real life are the same… and by that extension you are a good person.

    In the quest to become something more than a fps Battlefield Hardline has gone soft. In the attempt to offer something more realistic in the battle scenario department, it should charge for criminal offenses. For trying to make me believe that life in the police force has any resemblance to this game it should be sentenced for perjury.    … Expand
  29. hongkong97
    Jun 19, 2015
    5
    this games is an alright game. its not really the best battlefield game ever. but however dont buy this game. its boring and a rip off of Bf4. the single player alright, but the mulitplayer is hell
  30. Derpyderp
    Jul 2, 2015
    4
    a disgrace to the battlefield series, you will be better of buying BF4 now with all the dlc instead of this piece of garbage.A freaking disgrace , EA you can just make a new ip man... for me this is the worst battlefield game ever existed .the campaign was horrid, it tries to be a cop tv show but it failed. EA you are **** , i still got my hopes up for SW:B , if you **** it up i will nota disgrace to the battlefield series, you will be better of buying BF4 now with all the dlc instead of this piece of garbage.A freaking disgrace , EA you can just make a new ip man... for me this is the worst battlefield game ever existed .the campaign was horrid, it tries to be a cop tv show but it failed. EA you are **** , i still got my hopes up for SW:B , if you **** it up i will not buy anything again from you ****s… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 31
  3. Negative: 1 out of 31
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    May 13, 2015
    82
    Battlefield Hardline offers a fun single-player experience. Arresting suspects could have used some extra polish, as it's way too easy to manipulate the AI to surrender. The multiplayer mode is quite fun as well, but it suffers from lack of content and for the fact that it plays out like a stripped down version of Battlefield 4. The game's heritage aside, Battlefield Hardline is by no means a poor effort. [May 2015]
  2. Gamer.no
    May 4, 2015
    60
    Quotation forthcoming.
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  3. PC PowerPlay
    May 3, 2015
    80
    Be a Lethal Weapon in single-player, enjoy a different take on multiplayer. Visceral gives you the best of both worlds. [May 2015, p.57]
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