Broder Salsa
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This sounds really dumb. They going to Medal of Honor this franchise, aren't they?
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Polygon: Visceral's Battlefield game has a police theme, is due later this year
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dark_inferno
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CoD all over again.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
2008: Bad Company 1
2009: Battlefield 1943
2010: Bad Company 2
2011: Battlefield 3
2012 has been the only recent year without a Battlefield release, we should have seen this coming. Now, if Policefield is a download title like 1943 I won't have a problem with it but if it is a full retail Battlefield game I hope it blows up in EA's faces.
2009: Battlefield 1943
2010: Bad Company 2
2011: Battlefield 3
2012 has been the only recent year without a Battlefield release, we should have seen this coming. Now, if Policefield is a download title like 1943 I won't have a problem with it but if it is a full retail Battlefield game I hope it blows up in EA's faces.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
they were going to do battlefield then medal of honor then battlefield ect but medal of honor tanked hard
Turin Turambar
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Battlefield: Counterstrike Edition.
Turin Turambar
Member
You people like to set up your own future disappointment! It will be a BF with police / criminal skins and scaled down arsenal: not tanks and jets, but police vehicles (cars, suvs, bikes, maybe a swat armored truck) and normal or rigged cars for criminals.
Visualante2
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Battlefield: Most Wanted
Neuromancer
Member
It'd be really nice if this game had bots. Put bots in and I will buy it guaranteed, Visceral.
Revolutionary
Member
Police themed, eh? Will be keeping an eye on this. Loved the SWAT series.
Flame Lord
Member
It would be nice if it was just an old school expansion pack that added police stuff, but I doubt it.
Yankee Ruin X
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I would be so down for this if it was something in the vain of the old Rainbow Six on the OG Xbox. Loved that and Black Arrow on the original Xbox can't even begin to imagine how many hour I sunk into it playing Team Survival between them.
Edit:
Thinking about it more it could be really good. If they focused on smaller CQB maps like offices and building would it allow them to add more destruction and other map changing events allowing for a much wider variety of tacitcal gameplay. Give you choices for gear like do I take the night vision goggles and shoot out lights and stay in the dark or do I take the gas mask and roll in the tear gas.
With more destructible environments you could find a room where people are hiding and instead of going through the door just blow out the wall behind them or even the floor or ceiling.
If it allowed this type of destruction gameplay would be more suited to a more one life survival type as if there were endless respawns the map would be destroyed in 5 mins flat.
Edit:
Thinking about it more it could be really good. If they focused on smaller CQB maps like offices and building would it allow them to add more destruction and other map changing events allowing for a much wider variety of tacitcal gameplay. Give you choices for gear like do I take the night vision goggles and shoot out lights and stay in the dark or do I take the gas mask and roll in the tear gas.
With more destructible environments you could find a room where people are hiding and instead of going through the door just blow out the wall behind them or even the floor or ceiling.
If it allowed this type of destruction gameplay would be more suited to a more one life survival type as if there were endless respawns the map would be destroyed in 5 mins flat.
Yeah, was going to say I wish it was SWAT 5. But it won't be. It will be shooting terrorists at first sight in a blue uniform rather than a green or brown one.
7DollarHagane
Banned
While I don't like yearly franchising of series, treyarch did make my favorite call of duty and now they're a better team than infinity ward.
still wish visceral was doing something original.
still wish visceral was doing something original.
Riots? I'm assuming it'll be the US police though, otherwise it'll just be a truncheon simulator.
andrerobot
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Worst case twist: Battlefield: Reno 911.
Neuromancer
Member
Maybe this game will deliver on the unfulfilled promise of 25 to Life.
Battlefield: Bad Precinct
You mean best case twist. Featuring the Bad Company guys.
Battlefield: Bad Precinct
Reign_Of_Rain
Member
New Battlefield? By Visceral? Possible Third-Person view? Possibly cops? I'm in 
+ Not DICE.
No thank you, Visceral. I love you, but go work on Dead Space/something you own.
...and more recently, the dreadfully shite Dead Space 3.
Sadly, you're probably not wrong. Criterion/Ghost is your proof.
Neuromancer
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Dead Space is gone, man. Let it go.
gigantor21
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But I thought everyone said Dead Space was run into the ground because it became too actiony anyway?
UnluckyKate
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If it's like Rainbow Six / SWAT I'm down for it. Too bad it will milk the Battlefield name
SneakyStephan
Banned
They should make it a sim, you could burn people alive in buildings, rupture ballsacks, shoot a couple of asian ladies in a truck, beat a homeless man to death and shoot a retired old man in his appartment while yelling 'he's coming right at us!'
Fun for the whole family
Fun for the whole family
HassanJamal
Member
There will be only one game in my heart that got the police theme part to be enjoyable and fun and thats Urban Chaos: Riot Response Gluck to Visceral in their attempt.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Now that these are both annual do you think we can watch EA and Activision dwindle their resources fighting over dominance in the increasingly strained and diminishing military shooter market?
Will either of their sci-fi shooters prove nearly as popular?
Yep played it on XBox. Rocksteady respect!
Will either of their sci-fi shooters prove nearly as popular?
Yep played it on XBox. Rocksteady respect!
LordBaztion
Member
So, next BF will have a The Police theme ?
TigerBrown
Member
This. I'm more than confident that Visceral has the potential to produce something amazing with the Battlefield franchise.
BF:Cops may be interesting. Levelolution and large scale warfare in a police themed shooter seems odd without details. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Didn't they also flub up Army of Two 3?
Didn't they also flub up Army of Two 3?
FriedConsole
Banned
Are they going to finish Battlefield 4 first?
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
BC2 was beginning of March and BF3 was end of October, 1 year 8 month gap. Certainly nothing like CoD anyway.
Seems like Policefield would have much less vehicular combat, and at that point it wouldn't be much of a battlefield title.. I guess they have to piggyback off another franchise to get a SWAT game noticed. I'd probably welcome the change from fighting terrorists, though, so I'm cautiously looking forward to it.
That was another Visceral studio in Montreal. EA closed that studio soon after they shipped Army of Two.
The Faceless Master
Member
... not like this
Please don't be police themed multiplayer.
I mean, ill have to see it and stuff, but man... That sounds pretty bland to me.
Not to say the whole modern war scene hasn't gotten bland for some, but this, to me at least, sounds just odd.
Open map conquest as a policeman.
If they pull it off and i like what i see, ill pick it up, but I'm going to remain skeptical until a gameplay reveal.
I mean, ill have to see it and stuff, but man... That sounds pretty bland to me.
Not to say the whole modern war scene hasn't gotten bland for some, but this, to me at least, sounds just odd.
Open map conquest as a policeman.
If they pull it off and i like what i see, ill pick it up, but I'm going to remain skeptical until a gameplay reveal.
Like that's going to change.
fastford58
Member
BF bugfest every year. Great idea EA!
I was in your boat for awhile. China Rising had me excited.
Here's where I fall under after the past few days: Their business model is to shove out game after game on a yearly basis and then trash the previous iteration. There's no long term. It's basically a yearly membership but none of the stuff from the previous year carries over. Tired of spending cash on something that I'll only have for a limited time.
Vladimir Klitschko is a pre-order character
Fornaximus
Member
I wasn't sure how to respond to this. Whether to be mad about yet another military shooter going yearly, or the Dead Space devs wasting their time on it. But I don't really like Battlefield no matter how frequently they come out, and Visceral already ruined Dead Space. I just don't have the energy for these types of things anymore.