Battlefield: Hardline is a first-person shooter game for Xbox 360 that breaks away from the traditional military setting of the Battlefield series, instead focusing on the war on crime and the battle between cops and criminals. Players engage in heists, rescue hostages, and raid illicit businesses in both single-player and multiplayer modes. The game emphasizes a faster pace with new mechanics such as grappling hooks and ziplines, vehicular combat, and a wide array of weapons and gadgets to maintain law and order or orchestrate grandiose crimes.