The notion of boots-on-the-ground was now just a footnote on the jetpacks of players zipping around new ideas. At the time, its main competitor Call of Duty was experimenting with questionable results in the aforementioned futuristic Warfare instalments. Having worked primarily on The Sims and various movie tie-in projects before their horror opus, Visceral Games were an unlikely candidate to command the aircraft carrier-sized blockbuster Battlefield was steering. Introduced into the series after superlative success with Battlefield 3 and a lot of people playing the less-good-but-still-ok Battlefield 4, fans at the time weren’t expecting EA to hand over the keys from series favourites DICE to Dead Space creators Visceral Games. Sure, a near-future warfare experience might tick boxes, but what if those series epic battles, and all of that next-gen technical mastery, were taken back to the streets? In 2015, Visceral Games’ final release Battlefield: Hardline had these goals in their crosshair. READ MORE: Red Bull Kumite reminds me how much I miss offline fighting game tournaments The rumoured narrative of a “near-future” Battlefield might be a result for fans, but it’s time we stop lying to ourselves. With EA unveiling the next iteration of FPS goliath Battlefield next week, it’s a good time for people that like watching things explode.
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