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hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar and today we're talking about battlefield hardline it's the latest installment in the first person shooter series from visceral games and EA now hard line moves the action away from the battlefield and brings it to the streets it's a campaign that play is more like a cable TV cop drama but it's a claim multiplayer mode remains intact to get another opinion on battlefield hardline I'm joined by the host and producer from GameSpot mr. Chris waters thanks for joining me sir my pleasure Jeff how's it going buddy it's going real well I've been told by our friends here at CBS interactive that you are a battlefield veteran is that true and if it is true what do you think about the newest entry battlefield hardline uh yeah it's true I've played uh probably more hours than I care to admit of the battlefield series over the years uh the hardline is it is a fun one it's interesting because it's it's a real big sion oh it's a split off the series because the single-player campaign is a cop drama the multiplayer is it feels kind of familiar but you're you're cops and robbers you're not soldiers and even in previous sort of balances away from the main military thrust of battlefield it was always military now it's like a civilian yeah it's weird and not only is it not really on a battlefield anymore it's also very stealthy right there's parts of battlefield that aren't shooter II at all i'm sitting down and play a first-person shooter and I'm kind of first-person sneaking you totally are yeah cuz you're in the main campaign your you play a cop and you're like on the straight and narrow so you don't just want to go around popping dudes heads off nobody totally can but the game really encourages you to sneak to like wait until dudes are alone then flash the badge then they'll put their hands up you can arrest them you get bonus points and you don't trigger any alarms people don't start shooting at you and yeah I mean even from like a basic gameplay mechanic they have the vision cones which is like a very else game thing to do right I never understand how anyone can like put that into a map vision cones but we won't split hairs there and you're right so so part of the game is you flash your badge and you can sort of juggle three criminals at once as long as you keep your your gun trained on their face they won't go for their gut it always makes me feel like the rookie cop who's freaking out like comes up to the season bad guys if you like fries don't nobody go like all the rest of you all of you like it has this kind of desperate feel to it which is kind of neat that they've captured it i mean it's also pretty silly in some ways because you're with your partner and sometimes your partner will just be walking by and the guys don't detect her when she's running and they're only going to be detected by you but you know the sort of these these words still flaws aside I it it is kind of refreshing what did you think of the sort of like overall like cop drama like the characters in the pace like did the story like interest you it did it did more so than any other battlefield game I play before probably any shooter whether it be call a duty or anything like that if it felt like it was just enough for me to care and to not skip ahead all the cutscenes and just be like all right this will do this wouldn't do if I were watching the shield or or you know a show on FX or something like that but this is just enough and I mean it's funny there's a lot of quote for you yeah just enough for me to care hey battlefield hardline just enough story they got benito martinez from the shield and he was in sons of anarchy to he's in the game so that made me suspend my disbelief a little more like I cared just what was about just what was going on in the game in terms of the cop drama it feels a little cheesy some of the stuff is you know really low-hanging fruit but it was a little just enough and I think the presentation also pushes it a little bit towards that just enough state you know the way it's like episode by episode and you get it previously on and I whenever you start it up and a next on whenever you quit the campaign and when you finish an episode it has this like totally Netflix s like next episode coming up in 20 seconds so just really Prime's you to have that kind of TV watching mentality which i think you know sort of subverts kind of what expectations you're going to have coming to a battlefield campaign let's switch let's switch gears to online play battlefields uh hasn't done so well online last couple of times that's I guess that's an understatement I've been a little rocky at launch for some of the battlefield games in recent memory that's for sure but I think I mean I've been traveling this week but uh from all Twitter indications reddit indications heartlines multiplayer has launched smoothly uh for the first week we'll see what happens this weekend when you know everyone who is working or at school gets to like just settle in and play a bunch but so far it's looking good yeah that'll be a true test of whether or not they can handle it but men isn't it weird that we're just satisfied it works it works it works congratulations you pass um what about anything new in the multiplayer modes is there anything that's really grab your attention uh well yeah so like the thing about battlefield multiplayer is well especially in hardline is like the core stuff that I've always really loved about battlefield is still there you know the way that you can play different classes of soldier and you've got different stuff you can do besides just shooting nudes faster than they can shoot you you can heal or revive your teammates you can repair your cars you can put down spawn beacons you can you know do all this different stuff that not that helps you contribute to the fight without making you actually have to fight so there's it's like a feels like a diverse kind of an action scene and I really like that for sure I'm a guy who you know I got pretty good i call a duty online but whenever I try my hand at battlefield I just get my face punched in it's just not a pleasurable experience to know that I could somehow help the cause in a different capacity maybe by you know I mean I think that for me you know I've never you know I I love playing games but I'm not like an ace twit shooter guide like I love playing shooters and you know there are kids that will light me up all day every day but like one of the new modes for hardline which i think is a really neat twist on past hardline or battlefield notes is called hot wire and in this you basically there are five cars on the map you have to hijack the car and drive it at speed around the map in order to gain points for holding that car so it's like conquest which was like grab this space defend this one space but it's more kinetic it's more dynamic so there's no like well I cleared the enemies on this zone now I'm just gonna like wait here till more show up people don't really do that they like to run around and so getting in a car and then like you could get in a van and then like your buddy joins it opens the side sliding door he's waiting there blast someone the guy in the front seat is using the blowtorch to like repair your broken windshield and then you have dudes hanging up actually remains at anyone who's following you it was really fun why what is with the blowtorch preparing I want you we reflected I Sarge it solves everything it's science-y tired don't you're gonna melt the tire more don't blow torch it they did that in FarCry 4 also that was ridiculous I understand that yeah what do you want you want like some wrenches like a little screw gun my god or no I want home there's not a tool belt or like some sort of triple-a guy you know if I don't know I my expectations are being under achieved with this whole blowtorch thing I don't fair enough but you can't kill people with a blowtorch so that's kind of fun yeah I've seen some videos of that that's pretty impressive stuff um Chris waters thank you so much for joining me really appreciate getting your take on battlefield hardline where can people follow you on twitter i'm on twitter at CT waters with 2 t's so that's ctw attrs thanks for having me Jeff all right there you have it there's my take there's Chris's take make sure you read the review there's our coverage on seen it and then read the review on 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