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The Battlefield series has, to date at least, been faithful to the ideas that made it a hit from the start. It's the chaos of letting 64 combatants loose across a giant map, free to rip through the ocean waves in boats, or rocket to the sky in a chopper with your team-mates buckled up. And then watching them bail out, one by one, as each slowly twigs that you have absolutely no clue how to control the thing. Win or lose, this freedom remains the rigid backbone of Battlefield Hardline's multiplayer mode - as played on PC at a recent event, and soon to be rolled out as a public beta. Despite trading its army stripes in for the police badge, the cadence of the shootouts is a familiar one, and its reward for tight team play still holds a recognisable tenor. It might be Visceral Games' first stab at developing its own entry in the series, but Hardline appears on course to retain much of DICE's groundwork.
That's not to call it a palette swap by any means. Rather, series veterans will likely gel with the moment-to-moment action right away, while its cops and robbers theme is cleverly played out across a new suite of modes. As it goes, the best distillation of Battlefield's new flavour is the Heist mode.
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