Battlefield Hardline (2015) opens with the song "Sound of Da Police" by KRS-One. This is a game that's clearest inspirations are cop dramas, 2010's prestige television, and the sort of drug war stories we still hear every day. The game has a liquid cocaine drug called Hot Shot, a side-narrative that you can discover clues about, but if this game was made in 2025 it would have been fentanyl instead. The game seems to, at the start, be about being a cop on the front line of a new drug war, of morally grey circumstances and holding onto one's beliefs (if you could say a cop has beliefs other then the expulsion of power from various holes). Around halfway the game throws out the cop drama bullshit and leans into a bootleg Fast and the Furious clone where the game is trying very hard to be goofy, fun, and frantic. It fails, but to be honest? There's the barest glimmer of a decent frame sorta buried in there, and THAT's fucking infuriating. I don't t...