Battlefield Hardline Creative DIrector Talks About The Single Player

Expect Battlefield Hardline's single player to "do something completley different."

So far between the videos and betas, a lot of what Battlefield Hardline has to offer has been seen. But that is for the multiplayer mode that Visceral Games and Electronic Arts have shown off.

So in a new post on the Battlefield blog, Hardline's creative director Ian Milham revealed Viceral's approach to the game's single player mode. "Taking Battlefield into the world of cops and criminals gives us an opportunity to do something completely different than what's been done in the past, not only in the series but in the genre," he says. "When we look around the landscape of gaming these days, there are a lot of gravel-voiced super soldiers saving the world from domination. But that's not the world of cops and criminals, and that's not something we're interested in doing with Hardline."

Previously Viceral pointed out that that the single player would take inspiration from television shows. "Our world is more personal and relatable," he continues. "There won't be any five-minute cut scenes where the evil general explains his super weapon in our game. Instead, we want to create the look, tone, and pace of our favorite TV crime dramas."

No other info on how Viceral would do it, but Milham said that the developer is "delivering a different type of storytelling and a new tone that feels different from the from most of the first person shooters we've all played a lot of lately."