1930's Hardline

Just mulling about with random ideas again and thought a probation period, 1930's gangster styled Hardline would be cool if done right.

It'd have to be really nicely stylised with a dark and gritty theme/feel ( BF1 ) to it.

Robbing banks, armoured cars riddled with bullet holes, loose notes flying through the air in a haze of cigar smoke, shoot outs in dark damp alley, pulling out a Thompson from a violin case, a melee take down with some Brass Knuckles followed by cigar to the eye.

Wouldn't be right calling it " Battlefield ________ " as I think that was why Hardline had such hard time, it wasn't a terrible game, it just wasn't deserving of the battlefield title and couldn't live up to all the battlefield title encompasses.

 As soon as you attach ' battlefield ' onto something it then has to have classes, locked weapons/gadgets, land/sea/air combat, light, medium and heavily armoured vehicles etc.. And while yes in a typical war-torn setting this is perfect, but in Hardlines case, I felt as if it demanded too much and the game lost some of it's identity because of it.

let's say Hardline was a new franchise title ( like Battlefield, Battlefront ) and the Hardline we got was called Hardline LA. 

Then we could've had something that was like a scaled down GTA urban warfare kinda game, as being a new franchise it wouldn't have to follow the battlefield recipe and be under the same constraints. 

You could have Two rival gangs going at it, with a police force involved too, giving us 32v32v32 territorial battles, that would be something different indeed, conquest would be named " turf war " for example. 

So the game I'm suggesting would then be Hardline Chicago. You could have a Hardline New York, set in the 1980's, Hardline London, set in the 60's. 

The list goes on. 

I just thought it'd be different and fun.