Video Games : Frontlines: Fuel of War

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: THQ
EAN: 0752919492925
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD
Label: THQ
Manufacturer: THQ
Model: 49292
Platform: Windows
Publisher: THQ
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Sales Rank: 6806
Studio: THQ

Features:

Focused and intense system inherently promotes teamwork by creating a unified front of war. In both single player and multiplayer, players join the forces on the frontline that result in focused combat and increased intensity while allowing player choice.
Based upon actual locations in Central Asia, the player enters an epic campaign featuring 7 theaters of war with a climactic ending. Players can create their own path to victory with non-linear mission objectives and destructible environments.
Over 60 vehicles and weapons based off of real military designs of the near future. From futuristic tanks and jets to remote controlled drones and sentry guns, feel the adrenaline rush of utilizing next generation firepower on the battlefield.
Character customization allows you to represent your play style through character choices, weapon load out and role specialization.
Supports up to 64+ players on PC via LAN or Internet for large scale wars online

Accessories:

Frontlines: Fuel of War Official Strategy Guide (Brady Games) (Bradygames Official Strategy Guides)

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In a desperate, near future setting where controlling the planet's depleting fossil resources determines the ultimate fate of civilization. A global war for oil is being waged between two superpowers, the Western Coalition (US/EU) and the Red Star Alliance (Russia/China), and players will be instrumental in determining how the war is waged -- and won.
ESRB Rated T for Teen

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- I'm going to comment on the single player version
What a spectacular game! I haven't enjoyed a single player combat experience this much probably ever, and I've played them all. The story was engrossing (and timely), the weapons are awesome, usable, predictable, and accurate enough to not be frustrating.

As many have mentioned, the single player campaign, divided into 8 chapters, is quite short. You can get through it in maybe 8-10 hours. But what an awesome 8-10 hours. I would have been cranky if I paid fifty bucks for an 8 hour campaign to be honest, but as I paid less than half, I cannot complain. I could imagine playing through the game over and over as a fill in between major game release cycles.

It'd be great of the studio and publisher went ahead and enhanced the single player campaign with more installments. The ending sort of leaves you hanging (you defeated the russians, but the chinese are now ready to fight)

We can only hope that they'll issue another chapter in this terrific military political combat game. Just excellent

Rating:

- this game is SecuRom protected..careful if you buy it used
i bought this game used here, it turns out it is Protected by a security program. you may not be able to play it on your computer. it apparently can only be played on 3 different computers then no more..end of story

i downloaded the game.. 11Gb then the patches.. couple more Gigs, and then get a message "Wrong Disc", i go to the link, I'm told to do a security analysis, Rt click the Icon, zip-it and send it too them. I'm still waiting after 1 nonsense response.

i have been trying to get a resolution from SecuRom for 3 weeks, they did email me back after a while and simply said to try it again. i am still waiting for the second reply to my response, takes a while to get a response. --- i will post again when anything happens

the Company i bought it from used on Amazon had posted in their ad the game worked, Satisfaction was guaranteed.. no response from them.

people tell me i can do 2 different things to get it to work, just Google: the Game Forums for that advice.

Rating:

- A single player perspective
I play games mostly in single player mode, so this review is from that perspective. I played this game right after having played Quake Wars Enemy Territory and had also recently played UT3. I found Frontlines to be well designed, smooth, and quite enjoyable even for a single player.

Graphics were detailed and sound was good. Movements were reliable and easy, but I did get stuck once and had to "redeploy". You can't save your game and it doesn't overtly tell you when the game has been saved automatically, but objectives come in groups of three or four, and you usually need to accomplish them all before it saves your progress. You can respawn (referred to as "redeploy") a specific number of times before you have to start over on a group of objectives. The number of respawns varies according to the difficulty of the current objectives. While I usually hate not being able to save, I didn't find it to be a serious detractor from this game.

The variety of weapons was not as great as some games, but some of the weapons were very innovative. There is a pistol, assault rifle, grenade launcher, sniper rifle and a rocket launcher. You can't pick up enemy weapons, but there are ammunition dumps at reasonable intervals. I didn't run out of ammo very often. Besides the usual weapons there are flying drones, robotic ground based crawlers, demolition charges, and anti-personnel turrets that you can deploy. And, you can carry it all at once. haha! I love that.

There are a few types of ground based vehicles which are pretty typical. The tank is fun and there is something like a Bradley which is also pretty cool.

Then there's the helicopter. I tried it twice and gave up. I've never had that much hand-eye coordination. Maybe someone raised on computer games would have no trouble.

I have a 3GHz dual core CPU and two 8800GTS 512 graphics cards. Even with that power, it seemed a bit sluggish at first when I was trying to aim accurately in a hurry. In the web forums people were saying to turn off the "Foliage" which seemed to improve things. Then I turned it back up again, things were still pretty good for some reason. In any case, I had all the other graphics settings turned to max except motion blur which I just didn't like.

Anyway, comparing this with the single player action of UT3 and Quake Wars (which also target the multiplayer market), I'd definitely give Frontlines a thumbs up. UT3 and QW came across (to me, anyway) as obvious arena style games whereas Frontlines compares well with the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games.

Overall, I thought this was an entertaining shooter without a lot of complexity or a long learning curve. You won't have to repeatedly refer to the manual to figure out how stuff works. It's open field, but with specific objectives, so it leads you along without a lot of need for thought (which is exactly what I like).

Rating:

- average user
Great game, fast action, multiple ways to combat enemies. Good for experienced or novice users. Just make sure you read the system Requirements. It takes alot of space and requires alot of memory {RAM}, to work properly. Graphics are really good, but the lowest setting possible still requires a fast machine. Overall, worth the money.

Rating:

- could be better
for the most part the game is fun and the storyline is pretty good, but, make sure your rig can take it. My personal rig ran it fine in SP but everytime I tried to get online it would crash or freeze up or just couldn't coonect to a server though game was patched to most recent. I would wait for the price to come down though. My other rig though better than my personal rig would not play it at all.....mmmmmmmmm??


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