really worth it on sales. as mentioned by everyone, the multiplayer seems dead but this game has a really solid campaign. i had a blast playing it. story length's 6-8 hours depending on how you play through it. the narrative is like those 90's cop shows with lots of thrills.. loved it

only 10 but good episodes

⚠️ PunkBuster Installation and constant usage while game isn't open (is pretty much) required to access Multiplayer but not listed on Store Page. PunkBuster not necessary for Single-player. ⚠️

Battlefield Hardline is a sharp difference to what is usual with Battlefield, changing up the style from War to Cops vs Criminals and it's... okay.

This review will touch upon the Campaign ONLY as the Multiplayer is essentially dead, I would like to try out the MP as the premise of Cops v Criminals is interesting but unfortunately there wasn't anyone playing at the times I checked.



Is broken, if you can find a multiplayer game you'll need to manually install PB from EvenBalance's website. Personally I didn't bother for this title seeing as I couldn't see any alive MP lobbies but in case you do this is why you'll get kicked.



is back to being in the Web Browser despite Battlefield 4 releasing before this game and fixing this issue. Meaning your whole main menu is in your Web browser and you need an Internet connection to play the game. It's also just as broken as Battlefield 3... yay!



it's what you expect. Another external launcher on Steam and is a massive pain sometimes. For once it just worked for me but it's inclusion is a massive negative.



The story is awful. Like painful awful. Playing this I was genuinely wondering if this is poorly executed satire or if it's just a plain awfully written story at an attempt to make a story on issues... and I still don't know the answer to this. I'm leaning towards satire as the game presents itself in a TV show style with the levels being called Episodes with next times and previously ons.

It's whole style and theme is so completely different from the usual and focuses on a different kind of war in a way, the idea is great but the execution of it (in the campaign at least) is awful.

But unlike the story, the gameplay feels very nice and very refined. I really like the gunplay and levels, it all flows very nicely but with no good story to tie it all together it doesn't feel very cohesive. It feels like scene to scene.

Unlike Battlefield 3, controller does actually work in BF:H but no button prompts show up so you'll just have to play the guessing game and then memorise them. It's not too bad but it could be better.

Gyro does work but stick movement needs to also be mouse otherwise the 2 inputs conflict and cause flicking.

FoV slider doesn't work in the campaign.



Short review and quick thoughts on the game. It's okay, PunkBuster should go away. And like Battlefield 3, Battlelog makes for a good PS4 AD.

I would personally avoid the Steam/Origin version though, especially if the PS4 & XBO MP has actual players.