With BioWare’s highly anticipated sequel Dragon Age: Inquisition being released on the same day as games like Alien: Isolation and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, it was pretty obvious at least one of those game would eventually be moved off that date. It’d be silly to have some of the year’s most exciting upcoming titles all come out on the same day when there’s plenty of other open dates available this fall after many other titles were pushed back to 2015.
This has now been confirmed with the announcement that the next Dragon Age has been delayed. But no worries, the delay is not a major one. Instead of October 7th, Inquisition will now be released on November 18th.
Usually when a new Call of Duty game and a new Battlefield game are coming out, the two franchises battle for the title of best military shooter. Each has a new game coming out this year, but the two don’t feel nearly as similar as they once were.
Call of Duty remains in the military shooter category, though in a decidedly more futuristic, somewhat sci-fi setting with their latest, Advanced Warfare, while Battlefield: Hardline picks up and moves itself to the land of cops versus bad guys.
You can see the some of Hardline‘s multiplayer action in a new gameplay demo from E3 2014 below.
A recent leak seemed to indicate that the next game in Electronic Arts’ Battlefield franchise would be straying from the realms of military conflict and entering some kind of much smaller cops and robbers territory, to put it simply.
This has now been confirmed with the unveiling of an official website for Battlefield: Hardline. Unlike other entries in the series, however, it sounds as if the newest game will offer its single player campaign in episodic fashion in addition to the expected multiplayer options. It’s said to be somewhat along the same lines as the FX series The Shield as far as the characters and action goes.
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