Battlefield: Hardline Review | Gamespot

The felons and thieves of Battlefield: Hardline are like weak-willed vampires. A quick reveal of a police badge and a yell of "Freeze!" is akin to holding up a holy cross in their faces. They surrender despite being armed with semi-automatic rifles, and protected by bulletproof vests. They surrender despite outnumbering you three to one. On the other hand, if you're slow on the draw with your badge, these offenders become as lethal as any Battlefield opponent you've previously faced. There's no middle ground between their willingness to capitulate and their cold-blooded ruthlessness--and it's hilarious. Looking for more consistently challenging opponents? That's what Hardline's multiplayer is for, with maps and modes that capture Battlefield's distinct combined-arms warfare, despite the shift away from traditional combat-ready zones toward civilian locales.

[d_g]

It seems like most of sites agree on 7 score

[snipab8t]

I remember thinking the exact same thing about the over compliance of the enemies to give up when hearing "freeze!" watching the e3 demo years ago haha. Surprised they never fixed it up to at least make them only freeze when you have a more powerful weapon or when outnumbered. Especially when you're busy handcuffing an enemy and the others are just standing around waiting to be arrested.

[SolidStoner]

if its reviewed on its own then yeah... 7/10 is quite good score.. but if I compare to other childish reviews with childish games with bigger score.. it dosnt show anything at all.. just that reviews are random people opinions.....

[KnightRobby]

I didn't expect it to be revolutionary, but then again I am having a freaking blast in it so far. Love the maps and intimate feel of the gunplay this time around. Same thing with Dying Light. Loving my time in that game as well despite the low review scores.

Bottom line: Enjoy the games YOU want to enjoy.

[Saijahn]

low review scores? 7s are still good in my book. The game is definitely a blast man.

[Rimeskeem]

7 seems to be the average.

I think i'll rent and see how i feel about it.

[SolidStoner]

Hardcore mode will save it.. :)

[--Onilink--]

so far, what i've noticed is that the consensus for the 7.0 reviews is to drop points for average single player, which probably 9 out of 10 people already expected. But the multiplayer seems to be pretty good

[venom06]

Bullsh#% score, for a pretty fun game so far.. IGN seems to really like it so far..

[ironfist92]

IGN also gave a 9 to evolve...

[Kornholic]

Well to be fair, Evolve isn't a bad game, but it certainly lacks in content.

[Trekster_Gamer]

Bought it one hour ago.
Prologue was a lot of fun.
So far it is a very enjoyable Single Player Experience,,,
now, back to the game.

[nowitzki2004]

Some site should do a release review and then, a review after major updates. This game might be much better in 3-6 months after patches.

[WillGuitarGuy]

I don't agree with websites doing extra reviews down the line. Games are released as is and should be reviewed as such around the window that they're first released.

[nowitzki2004]

Released as is? So many games are released broken and patched that very first day. And dont Patches only come out the day the game is released? So reviewers are missing those out of their copies then arent they?

[deadfrag]

How about starting to release the games when they are actually Finnished and ready for consumers instead !Your way of seeing things will only make things worst and supports the laziness of some of today developers!

[UltraNova]

Don't keep your hopes up...

[AngelicIceDiamond]

@now No developers don't need a second chance they need to get their shit together the first time.

That's one the main points of reviewing a game. I get it things don't always go as planned the moment the game goes LIVE to millions.

But that's their job. In their job description they have to make sure the games works as well as possible THE FIRST TIME not the second, third or fourth time.

So no we shouldn't give devs that kind of slack.

[--Onilink--]

polygon does that...then again, most people dont like polygon reviews anyway lol

[Saijahn]

This is the first Battlefield game where a patch isn't even necessary. The game runs butter smooth. There's no game breaking glitch, Visceral deserves a big kudos on this game.

[Swiggins]

Instead of re-reviewing game after they've been patched, how about developers just release their games without being buggy and broken pieces of garbage....that seems like a better idea.

[hangdang]

About what I was expecting. Maybe even a little higher after playing the beta last year. I'll probably give it a shot once it's around $25. BF 3 and 4 and hundreds of hours on each kind of burned me out on these

[Pillsbury1]

Same here, gonna wait till it drops to 40$.

[StormLegend]

Seems about right.

[rmw2hot]

I know I'm going to enjoy this game picking up my copy later on. First Person Shooters is one of my fav genres & can't wait to play Hardline's multiplayer.

[joel_c17]

Watched the video review - game looks fun, but dammmmmm its ugly!

[slappy508]

To me Battlefield franchise is mutiayer only having not touched the singleplayer campaigns in previous installments. At least this offers something different and should be viewed as a bonus instead of a negative because let's face it, most people will be buying this for the multiplayer.

[2pacalypsenow]

Yet they give Call of Duty advanced warfare an 8 and titanfall a 9?? Hardline is better than a 7

[LightDiego]

Terrible review.

[MasterCornholio]

Well its meta is at a 76 so I would say that this review is on par with that. That doesn't mean that it's a bad game though because its meta is over 70.

[Taz X14]

You gotta wonder though, if it was delayed to work out the kinks and stuff what would it have been like? I'm glad Ubisofts blunders and lowered sales for their past several games has shown that people won't take it anymore. People are just waiting for the next unity to blow it up and tear it down, hopefully the big publishers looking to push and peddle are aware now.

[berndogskate]

No mention of graphics, framerate, length, weapons, etc? rubbish review, screw gamespot.