Battlefield : Hardline - Beta First impressions : A BF4 DLC at full price

CanadianGamer writes : "EA and Visceral Games announced their new Battlefield franchise game at this year's E3 on June 9th and also took the gaming world by surprise with the announcement of the immediate availability of the closed Beta for Battlefield : Hardline available on PS4 and PC platforms. The game itself is scheduled to release this fall.

It was quite surprising to see the new Battlefield game entering the Beta stage as their latest game, Battlefield 4 has not even broke the one year release barrier. The new game features the "War on crime" theme as gamers can play as either cops or crooks. It sure looks exciting and we, at Canadiangamer.net have you covered as we got our hands on a copy of the closed beta. Please take note that we play-tested the PS4 Beta."

[ArchangelMike]

Exactly this! It's an expansion pack at best, and for that reason I for one am not going to pay full price for it. I've been burned way too badly by the BF4 launch I just can't trust that Hardline will work out the gate and be worth full price.

I've said this in another thread, but playing the Hardline Beta and then the Destiny Alpha side by side, the difference is like comparing a PS2 to PS4. Qualitatively, in every aspect Destiny shows just how mediocre Hardline is, especially for a full priced title.

[My_Name_BTW_Is_Dante]

Really, you bought BF4? BF4 was nothing but an expansion pack for BF3 at best.

Hardline looks different enough to actually be a new Battlefield game (especially since a different dev is working on it).

[Vegamyster]

Aside from all the problems BF4 has regarding stability, everything about was it was tweaked and improved over BF3 (UI, feel of the weapons, more destruction ect)

The Hardline Beta feels exactly the same as BF4 with its own little twist on the formula, it feels like an expansion similar to BFBC2: Vietnam.

[LackTrue4K]

i hurd, Hard line has it's own DLC/premium....

EA has to be joking if they thing people/gamers will pay for it.........?!

[psman012]

DLC will sell like hot cakes, I'm sure of it. It always happens. It's ea for gods sake haha

[ArchangelMike]

Yup it most probably will. EA will release DLC with Premium DLC that you have to pay for!!! Unfourtinately gamers are like crack whores. They'll sell their mothers just to get another fix. smh.

[Matt666]

People should stop saying it a DLC it nothing like BF4. Does BF4 have cops and robbers gameplay trying to steal money, no it doesn't, does BF4 have weapons like baseball bats and police batons, no it doesn't. I could go on but it certainly not BF4.

Furthermore with your whole destiny VS HL debate it bothers me that Bungie teamed up with activision because there are COD elements in the game now like a throwing knife and the fact that in halo you could see your legs but you can't in Destiny (yes I do love when the smaller detail is in the game). Yes I know it a alpha test but I wait and see what the final product is like, but activision and good games don't go into the same sentence anymore.

[Canadiangamernet]

Yep i share the same opinion !

[JsonHenry]

I don't agree at all. Hardline feels and plays like a full blown series update. Not DLC for BF4.

[BX81]

Update or not, you don't crap on your fans with BF4 and not even a year later say hey were back! For the most part bf4 is fixed but still has issues. I'm not confident that bf4 is gonna play smooth every time so I know damn well I'm not gonna throw another $60 at the bf series till they show and prove. Just my opinion though.

[JsonHenry]

You must have had a lot more problems than I did with BF4. :/

[BX81]

Possibly. I played it for the 360 and had no issues. Then I upgraded to the xb1 version and had no problems for the 1st week. After that it was a mess. It's been stable for the most part lately though.

[Starbucks_Fan]

I'll wait till it's $35-$40. I'm excited for it though.

[memots]

+15$ per dlc pack and or $50 for premium ... No thanks , not this time ea

[cyclindk]

My sentiments exactly. BF4 still isnt 100 %. And they want 60.00 for an expansion pack?

And 60 for premium on that probably?! Ha, i still havent, nor will i, pay for premium on bf4 because of all the screwups!

Consider hardline a pass and certainly its premium not to mention bf4 premium. Lost 180 dollars, enjoy.

[mcarsehat]

This reminds me of when people said modern warfare 3 was dlc and battlefield 3 was a new game. Goes to show that gamers will turn on you whatever chance you get if the graphics aren't at least 10x better in a sequel.

Fickle!

[n4rc]

Ugh.. This whole argument is flawed IMO

Everyone always says because bf4 came out last year, its dlc..

Visceral didn't work on bf4.. Its the same as forza5 and horizon 2.. Shared assets doesn't mean its the same game.. Its smart development imo

I read a report that bungie/Activision need to sell 16m copies of destiny to break even.. Studios can't dump that into every game or even the 100m that AAA games tend to take..

I'll bet we see more of this as a way to keep games at $60 and still make them money

[Prototype_79L]

Visceral makes the single player, DICE makes the multiplayer. Many people only intereted in multpilayer, the beta is the multiplayer part. So apart from instead americans fight versus russians, there is cops vs robbers, and there are no tanks but armored trucks and cop cars. Everything else is the same. The difference between BF4 and hardline is similarto the difference between BFBC2 and its vietname expansion. EA is milking the cow hard.

[norkee]

Was bad company an expansion for battlefield 2? Nope. Like bad company This is an completely new game going in a new direction. The only similarity is the frostbite engine (which is used in lots of games now).
People have no idea how big it will actually be and are only assuming from this early beta.
When the bad company game was announced everyone had heir panties in a bunch. "Oh its not a real battlefield game, what the hell are they thinking." Then what happened? It turned out to be one of the most popular battlefields ever.

[General Shrooms]

The picture in the article is a Battlefield 4 screenshot with the Hardline logo on top of it.