Friday, August 22, 2014

News::Visceral could be onto a winner: Playing hostage negotiator in 'Battlefield: Hardline' - MMGN

MMGN writes: Visceral Games has big shoes to fill. The California-based studio is perhaps best known for its Dead Space series, but it doesnt have the same passionately backed gamer community as the Battlefield series does. Its first full-blown entry in the series -- it worked on the Battlefield 3 DLC, End Game, in 2013 -- is not shying away from its obvious disparity with the series proper. While traditional cops and robbers lore is quite far removed from the militarised conflicts weve come to expect from the series, Battlefield Hardlines rhetoric is shaped around a fresh take on the genre, and all eyes are on Visceral to perhaps, just maybe, reignite a branch of the first-person shooter in the same way past Battlefield entries have. One such mode in Hardlines multiplayer, Rescue, purports to strengthen the games ties to the cops and robbers narrative. The games initial delay to make it feel more like a cop drama is an obvious attempt at balancing an experience still f...



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