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Is Battlefield Hardline Overhated?

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The Weirdest Battlefield Game Ever Made. Truly a game of all time. Hardline.

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20 Comments

@reck1224 3 weeks ago Pinned

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@RoyalFlush1998 3 weeks ago

I enjoyed the campaign and loved the multiplayer, the whole cops and robbers vibe was a nice change from the soldier vs soldier usual battlefield experience, I’ve always wanted them to do a hardline 2 lol

@Morrowind-is-the-Goat 3 weeks ago

I like the idea of cops and robbers more than military stuff

@Leg-05 2 weeks ago

Miss this game so much. It was entry to the franchise. And my favorite campaign.

@NoseyOk 3 weeks ago

Loved Hardline when i was younger. Haven’t played it in a while though

@datalistener 3 weeks ago

This is a good video, but I disagree with you heavily. The campaign is SO MUCH FUN.

@LuminecentKoala 3 weeks ago

Okay, random fun fact because it keeps getting mentioned (I'm assuming because it's not like this in the UK), but in the US all police handcuffs use the exact same key. Also, even if they didn't, it's really just a thick metal pin. They're pretty easy to unlock.

@KevenFoode 3 weeks ago

43:27 this scene was ahead of its time 😂

@fishermanpoo8257 3 weeks ago

7:36 Close enough, welcome back BF4 Shanghai mission npc clipping through car

@GrindyVine 3 weeks ago

I think the game suffers from being a battlefield game.

It's like an ice cream shop selling shawarma out of the sudden one day, it's an amazing food to be had but then again... You're in an ice cream shop. Or if Need For Speed had a cooking spin off game.

The game is not terrible for me but sometimes it doesn't feel like a battlefield game that people wanted which in turn ended up biasing some of those opinions.

@GrimnirROTN 7 days ago

I honestly loved BF Hardline

@HAIRyKNucKL3S 3 weeks ago

Bit random but the multiplayer was me and my dad’s entire life for its entire cycle. Still playing to BF6 now, I start to realize I haven’t even enjoyed many FPS’s since then. Trapped in a corridor of time I can’t hope to relive or replicate ever. Thanks for the memories on the campaign, as regardless of the review I think this game always be one for my heart.

@kaymeachem1619 3 weeks ago

28:14 believe it or not similar things actually do happen here in the states. When Katrina hit lots of criminals, police,fire department looted and or killed civilians.

@The_one_and_only_AK5 3 weeks ago (edited)

37:31 the unlockable snipers are alot more reliable and are very fun when combined with the stealth (i LOVE this game)

@jakelaurent6 2 weeks ago

Some of the best infantry maps in the series. EA just screwed up by releasing it while BF4 was still getting updates.

Solid campaign and unique weapons. Not really a traditional battlefield game but could be a Payday competitor under its own IP in the future.

@MegaMrzombiekiller 3 weeks ago

Great vid BAG! Always happy to see you post!

@Mastershvke 3 weeks ago

This game was so fucking good the multiplayer but I was unfortunately a young impressionable kid when it came out n never played bc my bestfriend told me it was garbage and I forgot abt it, started playing in abt may or June and got rly rly into it, then just like that was gone that very next month… truly felt dumb asf for not trying it out myself. I think it was different & ppl rly don’t like different so shun things that are at the time.

@SchrönDonnowitz 2 weeks ago

honestly i was very ok with the idea of playing a game that was just an FPS version of GTA online, as for the guns i loved the ability to customize my loadout throughout the campaign which added an element of roleplay to it, as for the multiplayer i felt like asside from the maps that were nothing to write home about, the general vibe was great and very compatible with PVP, but the cherry on top for me as a gun neard was that thanks to the setting we got to plays with a shitton of obscure guns that we normaly never see in big FPS like battlefield or call of duty

@NoseyOk 3 weeks ago

5:59 Hotline Miami door sound

@muttipi 2 weeks ago

i always loved the game tbh it should have got more love, even when I was a kid I thought it was handicap that they stapled battlefield onto this game, it could have just been a cops and robbers shooter without the expectations. I'm happy I was able to get it and get into a few games earlier this year before they shut it down. The episodic stucture of the campaign being a police periodical was a fun framing, and it did alot more with it's story than anything BF games do nowadays.

Battlefield/COD campaigns now are either linear cutscene watching simulators or the battle royale feature reworked into a PVE mode, like mw3 and black ops 7. It's really sad that stuff like this and infinite warfare got panned, because they were actually great games.