Battlefield Hardline’s 1st expansion has Tommy guns, 4 merciless maps, and crazy action (interview)

Electronic Arts is taking the wraps off the hands-on previews of Battlefield Hardline‘s first expansion pack today. Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity has a lot of things to like for hardcore fans of the franchise. And I know, because I played alongside some YouTubers who were among the best Battlefield players in the world. They destroyed me, but they also showed my how fun the four new maps in the expansion could be.

I had a chance to talk about the design of the multiplayer expansion with Zach Mumbach, multiplayer producer at Electronic Arts’ Visceral Games studio at the company’s headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Mumbach said that the team whipped the downloadable content together in the past few months, after taking into account what they learned from the March launch of Battlefield Hardline, which takes the fast-action shooter combat of the past military games and turns it into cops-and-robbers mayhem.