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Video game developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts are confirming that they are now aiming to launch their already delayed Battlefield Hardline on March 17 of 2015, on the PC, the Xbox One from Microsoft, the PlayStation 4 from Sony and last-gen consoles.

The two companies are not ready to offer more details about the core features of the game or how they have been transformed since it was first pushed back from its original date.

Battlefield Hardline was supposed to arrive this fall in order to provide competition to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but the beta test revealed some issues with the experience which prompted the development team and the publisher to announce a delay.

Visceral Games says that since then it has made a number of changes to the mechanics, all of them based on the feedback that the community has offered.

The single player of Battlefield Hardline will take gamers to Miami where they will take on the role of officer Nick Mendoza, who has just been promoted to detective and finds himself in the middle of a major drug operation.

Alongside partner Khai Minh Dao, he needs to investigate a cartel and quickly finds how deep corruption can run and how it affects even those who say they serve the law.

The developers are saying that the core structure of the campaign is inspired by both Hollywood movies and by recent top level television-based episodic dramas.

A focus on multiplayer for Battlefield Hardline

The Battlefield series is best known for the complex multiplayer experiences that it offers and Hardline is no different.

Visceral Games states, "You’re on one side of the law or the other — a baton or bat, stun gun or rifle, armored police truck or powerful muscle cars. But either way, teamwork is going to be essential if you’re going to want to pull off that perfect heist or big time bust in this new take on Battlefield multiplayer."

In the initial beta, gamers complained that the two sides were too similar and that some weapons were not balanced correctly.

Since then, Visceral Games has made changes which will themselves be tested in another beta period which is set to take place during the winter of this year.

It will be interesting to see how Battlefield Hardline will perform when it arrives on March 17 and what other titles might get launched at the same time to compete with it.

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