Hardline is just a mediocre cop game. It has nothing to do with Battlefield. It can be played with low expectations just to waste time. But what bothered me the most about the game was the number and time of loading screens, like all games made with the Frostbite engine. While games made with this engine look beautiful, they also have horrible loading issues. I'd say it's even worse than Bethesda's Creation engine. It's very abysmal for a 2015 game to have problems even on SSD.