Battlefield Hardline's disappointing campaign is more Bad Boys than The Wire

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Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece, based on completing Battlefield: Hardline's campaign. Our full review will be up once we've played the multiplayer on fully stressed servers.
Experience has taught us not to jump the gun when it comes to online games these days. As such, our full review of Battlefield Hardline will be here next week, once we've spent some serious time in the game's multiplayer modes on post-launch public servers. That, at least, offers the opportunity to dig into the campaign mode to see how it translates DICE's military milieu to a more domestic cops and robbers setting.
Given that American police forces increasingly look and behave more like an occupying army than a civil service the leap isn't quite as dramatic as you might think, but the first few of the game's ten single player missions still feel like a change of pace.
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