{"id":75715,"date":"2014-10-29T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=75715"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:23:28","slug":"battlefield-hardline-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/battlefield-hardline-release-date-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield Hardline release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA&#8217;s delayed <a href=\"http:\/\/battlefield-hardline.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battlefield Hardline<\/a> will be released on March 17th (19th in EU, 20th in UK). In a change for the military FPS series, it&#8217;s based on <strong>police versus criminals<\/strong>, with a crime story single player mode and multiplayer that sees you on the right or wrong side of the law, fighting the other.<\/p>\n<p>Originally slated for a fall 2014 release, Battlefield Hardline has probable been delayed to avoid the terrible problems Battlefield 4 faced last year. In a year of <strong>botched online launches<\/strong> for EA, Battlefield 4 was probably the most damaging because it looked like it was on its way to stealing the FPS crown from Call of Duty.<\/p>\n<p>Battlefield Hardline claims to be inspired by &#8216;the most popular crime dramas seen on television today&#8217;, so we could expect it to be dark and gritty with muddy moral waters. As ever, the multiplayer modes will be most people&#8217;s focus &#8211; single player campaigns in modern FPS games are ever decreasing in importance.<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty has often used the <strong>single player campaign<\/strong> to generate controversy, as with the &#8216;no Russian&#8217; level, which saw players take part in a terrorist massacre. The Battlefield series has typically shied away from this kind of thing, but that does beg the question, &#8216;what is the point of Battlefield&#8217;s single player campaign?&#8217; Maybe Hardline&#8217;s storyline\u2013 set in Miami with cops chasing the supply of drugs to the city\u2013 could change this.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Check out our impressions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/battlefield-hardline.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battlefield Hardline beta<\/a>. It will be released on PC, PS 4, Xbox One, PS 3 and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Battlefield Hardline multiplayer will launch with nine maps and seven game modes\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/battlefield-hardline-multiplayer-will-launch-with-nine-maps-and-seven-game-modes\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battlefield Hardline multiplayer will launch with nine maps and seven game modes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watch the reveal trailer for Battlefield 4: Final Stand\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/watch-the-reveal-trailer-for-battlefield-4-final-stand\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the reveal trailer for Battlefield 4: Final Stand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gamescom 2014 - Battlefield Hardline single player campaign revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/gamescom-2014-battlefield-hardline-single-player-campaign-revealed\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gamescom 2014 &#8211; Battlefield Hardline single player campaign revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA&#8217;s delayed Battlefield Hardline will be released on March 17th (19th in EU, 20th in UK). In a change for the military FPS series, it&#8217;s based on police versus criminals, with a crime story single player mode and multiplayer that sees you on the right or wrong side of the law, fighting the other. Originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/battlefield-hardline-release-date-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battlefield Hardline release date announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2777],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-75715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionbattlefield-hardline"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329917,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75715\/revisions\/329917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75715"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=75715"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=75715"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=75715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}