Battlefield: Hardline multiplayer puts you inside a TV crime show (hands-on preview)

It’s easy to imagine that Battlefield: Hardline‘s multiplayer won’t be much different from all of the other Battlefield games that came before. And Visceral Games, the Electronic Arts studio that made the game, was very aware of that impression. So it worked on its design so that the combat shooter game was adapted to the storyline of cops and robbers.

While seasoned Battlefield fans will like it because it has their favorite modes like Team Deathmatch, Visceral Games has a chance to hook some new players because it designed the multiplayer to appeal to those who are familiar with modern e-sports and multiplayer battle arena (MOBA) games — such as League of Legends — where five players square off against five players.