Frontlines: Fuel of War is one of the most addicting games that I have played in some time. The last several nights of my life have been spent playing "just one more round" of this killer Kaos/THQ title.
First, the bad stuff though. The matchmaking has a few issues, that prevent you from joining the Official Multiplayer servers, which by the way, can accomodate up to 50 players on XBL. Ya. 50.
The array of vehicles and weaponry, expansive maps, and truly vertical freedom combine to make this a must-own for fans of vehicle-centric shooters. It's Battlefield 2 taken to a whole new level. Balanced, diverse, and just plain fun.
You give up some graphics for some of these perks, but in the midst of all of the action, you won't notice.
The single player campaign is a little on the short side, but forgiveable since you can easily tell that Frontlines is a game meant to played online.
Rather than restrict players to the tight corridors and assigned lines through a particular level, the player is shown a huge battle map and is given full discretion where they would like to go and when. You play the single player the way YOU want to play it.
The weapons in this game surprised me. They have a really nice feel when combined with the 360's rumble. It really seems like they spent extra time making sure that the rumble matched up perfectly to the game, and it shows.
The sound in the game is extremely accurate. When I say accurate, I mean that on more than one occasion I have used the surround sound in my living room to make a kill online, despite smoke screens and explosions. I literally listened my way to a kill. Now that's what I call a good shot.
Each class of player in Frontlines, be it a sniper, heavy assault, specOps, whatever, also gets to deck out their player in any of 5 different SPECIALTIES. You can be a sniper who is also an engineer. A SpecOps guy who plays with R/C drones. There are dozens of combinations which basically yield more than 40 different types of loadouts that you can try.
Flight in the game, particularly in the Helos, rivals anything I have seen thus far for the 360. Without being over-the-top complicated, the machines feel and behave quite intuitively.
I love this game.
Xbox Live Games with Gold users can snag these two games for free. They weren't announced by Microsoft but appear to show as free with Xbox Live Gold.
If you're getting something through or because of a paid subscription service -
ITS. NOT. FREE.
Stop using that word...
360 and original xbox games are free. You can download them and play them free on 360 and xbox one offline.
Mx unleashed has been free to gold for ages for some reason, front lines is a good freebie it's not advertised.
Both games are free to keep in xbox digi library. No subsxription required to play these games once there added. There yours to keep
Jason Stettner of Gamerheadquarters writes; "Frontlines: Fuel of War is a game that can honestly be forgotten, it was an average shooter and at that it certainly hasn't aged well."
LOL what a random revisit. I remember liking the demo for this game, but never bothered buying it.
Completely forgot about this game. Remember being hyped about it... probably not that hyped about it seeing as how i never bought it amd forgot about it haha
Wasn't a bad game. Clunky, but enjoyable. I still remember one of the loading screen captions; real poignant and deep...
"Our last drop of oil will be burnt by a tank."
Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs. ATV, Titan Quest, Supreme Commander, Frontlines, Stuntman, Juiced, Full Spectrum Warrior, Destroy All Humans and much more will enrich the Nordic Games portfolio
Wants Gamers Input on How to Move Forward
Nice to see they are looking for input from the people that will either buy the games or not.
Darksiders 3 needs to be more like 1. Darksiders 2 was a very deluded experience in order to be longer.
And please hire Madureira as the creative director of the game please! His art made the game alive. If the art style changes the whole game will be a piece of generic crap.
i want you to take Geo-Mod and turn that up 11 i wanna see 50 story building fall and big beautiful towers come crashing down. i want a next gen destruction physics engine.
This game fails
Great Review JSA-Gamer
I agree with every point you said