Battlefield: Hardline bekräftat. Släpps i höst

Igår rapporterade vi om en läcka som gjorde gällande att nästa spel i Battlefield-serien ska heta Battlefield: Hardline, kretsa kring tjuvar och poliser och utvecklas av Visceral Games. Idag har vi fått det bekräftat, tillsammans med en ny bild som visar upp spelets första officiella artwork.

I ett öppet brev från EA skriver Visceral Games-chefen Steve Papoutsis att Battlefield: Hardline ska visas upp den 9 juni för att sedan släppas i höst.

"The game launches this fall and it's a brand new series in the Battlefield franchise, set against the backdrop of a genre we all love - the war on crime and the battle between cops and criminals."

"Several years ago, I was at an internal EA meeting in Barcelona with creative leaders from across the company. It was there I met Karl Magnus Troedsson, the GM of DICE, for the first time, and we immediately began talking about games - I've always loved Battlefield and KM was a huge fan of Dead Space, which I was working on at the time."

"We started talking about different ways we could work together, different ways we could take Battlefield and action games in a new direction. It was then that this project that became Battlefield Hardline was born."

Papaoutsis säger också att han är förväntansfull på att få visa upp vad Visceral Games har gjort med spelets singleplayerläge, ett spelläge som ju annars brukar hamnar i skymundan när det gäller Battlefield.

"There's been a lot of buzz today about Battlefield Hardline - we're getting ready for E3 and fans found some details on our website about what we're working on for the show. We've been reading all of your comments and we're excited to be going into more detail soon on the ways we're adding new twists and turns to the foundation of Battlefield multiplayer and more about how we're bringing our strengths at Visceral to single player."