Gårsdagens rykter viste seg å stemme på en prikk. I dag har nemlig EA og Visceral Games annonsert et nytt og annerledes Battlefield-spill, ved navn Battlefield: Hardline.
Som ventet er det snakk om et Payday-lignende konsept der man spiller enten som politi eller røver, og spillet skal lanseres allerede til høsten. Dessuten lover EA mer informasjon under EA-konferansen deres den 9. juni (kl. 21.00 norsk tid):
- The game launches this fall and it's a brand new series in the Battlefield franchise, set against the backdrop of a genre we all love - the war on crime and the battle between cops and criminals.
Several years ago, I was at an internal EA meeting in Barcelona with creative leaders from across the company. It was there I met Karl Magnus Troedsson, the GM of DICE, for the first time, and we immediately began talking about games - I've always loved Battlefield and KM was a huge fan of Dead Space, which I was working on at the time.
We started talking about different ways we could work together, different ways we could take Battlefield and action games in a new direction. It was then that this project that became Battlefield Hardline was born, kommenterer Visceral Games-sjef Steve Papoutsis i et åpent brev til fansen.
Videre påpeker han at Visceral Games har brukt mer tid på enspillerdelen enn det som har vært tradisjonen for Battlefield-serien de siste årene:
- There's been a lot of buzz today about Battlefield Hardline - we're getting ready for E3 and fans found some details on our website about what we're working on for the show. We've been reading all of your comments and we're excited to be going into more detail soon on the ways we're adding new twists and turns to the foundation of Battlefield multiplayer and more about how we're bringing our strengths at Visceral to single player, avslutter Papoutsis.