5 reviews
Frontlines: Fuel of War
When the oil fields go dry, the war begins. In this first person shooter, you must use every gun, drone, and vehicle at your disposal to hold the line.
Details
- Released
- February 24, 2008
- Developer
- Kaos Studios
- Genres
- Shooter
- Publisher
- THQ
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Frontlines: Fuel of War Reviews
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As society succumbs to a worldwide energy crisis, a new global depression takes hold. Amidst this desperate backdrop, two superpower alliances emerge. Join the battle on the frontlines of tomorrow as the Western Coalition or the Red Star Alliance.
Frontlines as a single-player game is a thrilling experience. It's the multiplayer that will give Frontlines legs though, providing gamers with epic 50-player battles.
Frontlines: Fuel of War is clearly deeply dependent on its gameplay to bring home the bacon. Its single-player performs well enough to get players to work their way through for the achievement points it’s the multiplayer that will hook some FPS fanatics. If you can forget about the fact that you’ve been playing this style game for years with the Battlefield franchise then Frontlines will hook you for some time with its gargantuan battles, but for most Fuel of War will likely be too generic to truly sink their teeth into.
Frontlines: Fuel of War isn’t just some filler as people wait for EA’s next Battlefield instalment, yes it does borrow heavily from the game but it has more than enough qualities to really stand proud. The frontline dynamic which is enforced helps players to hone their strategies and strength of numbers on specific parts of the warzone, it keeps action flowing. The addition of drones and the special support powers helps keeps thing even more alive and gamers on their virtual toes. Kaos...
When politics and games mix, the end result is usually somewhat ambiguous as it’s often hard to get across a serious message in the midst of all that shooting, running and mushroom stomping. I may have drifted off point but you get the idea. Frontlines focuses on a potential real world issue and tries to imagine the consequences; that being that a global energy crisis is taking place in the near future and the world superpowers have banded together in a bid to make a grab for the last resou...