History VideoGame / BattlefieldHardline

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Played with. Khai does know martial arts, but it's not a traditional Asian martial art like Karate or Kung-Fu. UsefulNotes/KravMaga is her fighting style of choice.

* AscendedFanboy: DiscussedTrope. [[spoiler:Nick says that Dawes probably read a lot of comic books as a kid when he found a [[Series/{{Batman}} button to open the way to a safe inside of a bust of a person]].]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kingpin Remy Neltz is referred to as this; he dumped harmless food additives with scary-sounding names into a Florida swamp then used political connections to have the land condemned as a toxic hazard so he could use it to run drugs, then used an anime company to launder the proceeds, even going so far as to serve as the voice actor for the company's mascot. On multiple occasions characters take all this as a sign that he's both creatively brilliant and also completely nuts.

* {{Expy}}: Adam John Harrington has all but replicated his role as the snarky Detective Earle from ''VideoGame/LANoire''

* GangstaStyle: Characters hold the dual Skorpion vz.61's in this manner while aiming it.

* LawmanBaton: Several different batons are available as melee weapons for the police.

* CutsceneBoss: Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler:Stoddard]] gets taken out almost exactly like a ''Call of Duty'' BigBad. He's about to kill you while you're incapacitated, only to be momentarily distracted by your teammate, giving you an opening to shoot him.

* WeatherOfWar: Two of the multiplayer maps feature weather effects that will begin mid-match. "Riptide" will be hit by a hurricane, and "Dust Bowl" will be overtaken by a sandstorm.
* YouLookFamiliar: One of the Mooks in Alpert's militia in Episode 8 is the exact same model as one of the warrant suspects from Episode 7.

''Battlefield Hardline'' is a FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Visceral Games in collaboration with EA Digital Illusions CE and Creator/CriterionGames and published by Creator/ElectronicArts.

* CopShow: The single player campaign plays like one, complete with {{Netflix}}-style mission result screens.
* CutsceneBoss: Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler: Stoddard]] gets taken out almost exactly like a ''Call of Duty'' BigBad. He's about to kill you while you're incapacitated, only to be momentarily distracted by your teammate, giving you an opening to shoot him.

An expansion called ''Criminal Activity'' was released, adding four new maps in addition to new weapons, vehicles and equipment.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:As {{Badass}} as Nick, Khai, Boomer, and Tyson are, there is pretty much no way they are going to take down Preferred Outcomes by force. As is admitted by [[BigBad Dawes]] in a PosthumousNarration, there are too many reputations at stake, too many power players all over the police and other industries and across the country in the very least, for just four people to mount any reasonable offensive in taking it down, especially when one of them is a wanted felon as a supposed DirtyCop and is a cop killer.]]

* BottomlessMagazines: During the car chase scene, you can fire your weapon infinitely without even needing to reload. This is either an AntiFrustrationFeature or an example of TheyJustDidntCare.

** When reloading certain weapons, there's a one in ten thousand chance that you'll get a humorous reload animation, including tossing bullets into the chamber of a revolver, attempting to reload an RPG into the launcher wrong-way-first, then throwing it in the air and ''catching it in the launcher'', making your pistol perform a disappearing act, or having a third hand give you a magazine for your assault rifle.
** In some multiplayer maps, doughnut boxes can actually be spotted by cops with hilarious enthusiasm.

''Battlefield Hardline'' is a FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Visceral Games in collaboration with EA Digital Illusions CE and Creator/Criterion Games and published by Creator/ElectronicArts.

Battlefield Hardline is a FirstPersonShooter video game developed by Visceral Games in collaboration with EA Digital Illusions CE and published by ElectronicArts.

The major difference from the rest of the VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} franchise is that the setting is now a Cops and Robbers setting as opposed to a military one.

It was released on March 17th, 2015.

An expansion called "Criminal Activity" has been announced, it will add four new maps in addition to new weapons, vehicles and equipment.

!!Battlefield Hardline provides examples of:

*** Two enemies can be seen playing ''{{VideoGame/Dead Space}} 1'', even lampshading how good the Line Gun is. The game will actually pause when they see the player.

* UniversalDriversLicense: Of course you can pilot a helicopter!

** One of the achievements you can get(from profiling ten criminals in single-player) is called [[WatchDogs "Watched Dawg"]]

** When the Syndicate Hacker gives a squad the 'Fast Deployment' upgrade, he may tell them that, "[[LegendOfZelda ...its too dangerous to go alone.]]"

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Yes, Dawes and Stoddard are dead. But as Dawes [[PosthumousNarration admits]], there's too many reputations on the line, too much at stake, too many power players for a group of four people to actually accomplish anything useful in taking it down entirely. The corruption runs so deep that it's nigh impossible for Preferred Outcomes to be stopped as it is. Given how it ends on a {{cliffhangar}} of what Nick is going to do, also doubles as NoEnding.]]

* OnlyInMiami: The singleplayer storyline is centered in Miami.