Too bad COD wasn't more COPS than military
Will I buy the next COD? Probably. Will it be worth my time? Yes. I'll buy it at launch and beat it in a week and then trade it in to Gamestop making my purchase more a rental for about $25. I'll be part of the conversation, I'll have an opinion, and I wouldn't have been challenged in my thinking.
If COD had tackled policing all those years ago maybe the well wouldn't have run dry by now. Battlefield Hardline is about police work. Maybe a Battlefield Hardline 7 would have gotten around to the Houston Riots of 1917 or something meaningful instead of rehashing conflict after conflict with the US always being good guys. At some point COD being an arm of US military propaganda will come out.
The ability to arrest criminals in this game instead of killing them is a pretty novel arc in my game play experiences. And since im not using a public relations fact sheet to help write this i can't be sure if you can go the whole game without killing anybody. Nor am i sure if anything is rooted in reality or if the places in the game are modeled after existing cities or neighborhoods. I do know that the game has destructible environments and you can lean while aiming which went the way of the dodo bird a while ago and i reclaimed when pubg came out on consoles. I love a lean mechanism and i love destructible environments.
I played the game on PS3 and really enjoyed the way the levels were presented in an episodic way. It was nice to get a recap of the goings on in the game when I started the game or played a new level. I played this game about a year ago and some of my notes are pretty skant. Since i played this on PS3 I wouldn't mind a replay on an Xbox One if I can get it for about $10.
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7.9/10 (yeah the math checks out if i start my 4-star games at 8.0. I do what I want.)