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(2015 Video Game)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Sexual references throughout.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is shown violently punching a man illustrated by the camera shaking from her punches.
  • The single-player story is played in an episodic style and the player can make choices that will impact the story as each chapter is completed.
  • The player (as the protagonist) can use a variety of firearms such as pistols, shotguns, grenades, machine guns and rocket launchers to combat human enemies who're criminals, and can opt for non-lethal stealth takedowns where he'll incapacitate enemies and handcuff them or shoot them with a taser.
  • In addition, the player has access to many vehicles such as passenger cars, police cruisers, armored vehicles and helicopters during the multiplayer portion of the game.
  • The overall level of violence is moderate during game-play, when characters are hit blood is hardly seen.
  • Some cinematic scenes depict violence, such as a man getting shot in the chest at point-blank range and then he dies as he slumps down onto the ground, and another man throttled with handcuffs in a prolonged struggle.

Profanity

  • In the mission where you raid a mansion to place a tracker in a bag of money, on the way to the bag of money, you hear a few enemies talking about prostitutes (referred to as whores), with one enemy asking, "when will the whores arrive."
  • 93 f-words 14 g-d-words 9 s- words
  • There is some strong language in the game's dialogue (not much different from other similar games in the Battlefield franchise). Expletives such as 'motherf**ker',as well as uses of 'f**k' and its variations are used.
  • However language isn't present in the multiplayer game modes.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • If this game were a movie, it would be rated R for Sequences of Strong Violence, Language and Drug Content throughout
  • Violence and Language throughout, and some Drug Content
  • There are drug references and incidental scenes of drug use by non-player characters that the player may come across in the game. The player may also encounter drug paraphernalia as part of the environment.
  • In a scene, a main character is driving a forklift stacked with bricks of cocaine over a railway. He gets stuck and asks others to push him. A train comes and eventually is forced off the forklift. Cocaine is seen flying everywhere and characters are seen covered in it.
  • The realistic depiction of drug-dealing and drug use is emphasized throughout the course of the game's campaign, however, its portrayal doesn't include instructive details. The game doesn't glamorize or encourage drug-taking, nor does it serve as the primary intent of the campaign to encourage the consumption of drugs to achieve success. In fact it scares you from consuming drugs because of all of the risks it can do to your life. (i.e. consume drug paraphernalia to complete a level).
  • Multiplayer has no Alcohol/drugs/smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • 'Battlefield Hardline' is a first person shooter set in North America where the player takes on the role of Mendoza, a young police officer investigating a large drug trafficking ring that spans across the country. In this video game, you are a police officer doing actions of good not bad. You also get bonus points for arresting people, not shooting them.
  • This game is just like other games in this series, but it is focused on a large drug bust.

Spoilers

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Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • For example, antagonists including Julian Dawes and Carl Stoddard are responsible with dealing cocaine and marijuana.

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