EA officially announces Battlefield Hardline

Following a rather massive set of leaked content on NeoGAF and other sites, EA has fessed up and officially announced Battlefield Hardline.

Like Bad Company, Battlefield Hardline takes the franchise in a slightly different direction: in this case, cops and criminals. The official site has gone live and EA is set to fully reveal the title during their E3 press conference on June 9th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET.

Read on for the announcement from the official EA news site.

On behalf of everyone at EA and Visceral Games, I?m fired up to confirm our next project ? Battlefield Hardline.  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.

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.

I hope you?ll join us for the official world premiere on June 9 at Noon PDT, and sign up for updates on the new game at our web site www.battlefield.com/hardline.