Battlefield Hardline is a first-person shooter video game which allows players to assume the role of either police officers or criminals. Players can choose to play in an episodic crime drama single player campaign, or as cops and criminals in rapid Battlefield multiplayer mode. Tactics involve gathering intelligence, obtaining warrants, and using non-lethal force to effectuate arrests. There are new maps and gadgets that alter the way you play, such as grappling hooks and zip lines to scale city buildings, exotic muscle cars for fast transportation across cities with 'cheddar', armored trucks that give your crew a lift - all while keeping teamwork key for winning turf wars.