A new
Battlefield Hardline
website is online, as EA DICE takes a hard line on the
leaked details about the next
installment in the shooter series. The site offers newsletter signups, and
promises an unveiling at E3 on June 9th at 3:00 pm EDT. A
leaked trailer is also
online, though this may disappear soon judging by the "confidential" and "do
not distribute" watermarks (thanks
DSOGaming). Finally, there's an accompanying announcement on
the EA website where Steve Papoutsis confirms this is being developed by
Visceral Games and that this will depart the military theme for more of a cops
versus criminals shooter. Here's word:
On behalf of everyone at EA and
Visceral Games, I’m fired up to confirm our next project – Battlefield Hardline.
The game launches this fall and it’s a brand new series in the Battlefield
franchise, set against the backdrop of a genre we all love – the war on crime
and the battle between cops and criminals.
Several years ago, I was at an internal EA meeting in Barcelona with creative
leaders from across the company. It was there I met Karl Magnus Troedsson, the
GM of DICE, for the first time, and we immediately began talking about games –
I’ve always loved Battlefield and KM was a huge fan of Dead Space, which I was
working on at the time. We started talking about different ways we could work
together, different ways we could take Battlefield and action games in a new
direction. It was then that this project that became Battlefield Hardline was
born.
There’s been a lot of buzz today about Battlefield Hardline – we’re getting
ready for E3 and fans found some details on our website about what we’re working
on for the show. We’ve been reading all of your comments and we’re excited to be
going into more detail soon on the ways we’re adding new twists and turns to the
foundation of Battlefield multiplayer and more about how we’re bringing our
strengths at Visceral to single player.