Frontlines: Fuel of War

[Nanor]

OKAY! Why is there no thread? You guys suck!

Frontlines: Fuel of War is an FPS developed by the same people who made BF2 (or so Piacular tells me). It's something similar to BF2(142) and I'd say it would be set somewhere between those two time frames (technology wise). It's your typical squad based pwn the other side game except with an interesting twist. Rather than capture a specific point, moving forward changes the battle map. So you could wedge through the middle and go out the sides or pincer them. A real opportunity for budding tacticians.

It's got a lot of cool things, like the ability to call in Airstrikes of different kinds, like the Cluster Bomb or the precision strike and lots of other gadgets. I'm hoping this isn't another Quake Wars. :/

Play do it for £24.99 and you get some goodies with it. Bambi, Pia and I have all pre-ordered so I expect to see you lark on the Battlefield in 28/2/08!

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Looks good, but I've got too many games piled up to finish already without adding another one to the queue will probably give this one a miss (but I bet it turns out to be the best game ever, such is my luck) but thanks for the heads up.

 

[Ronin Storm]

There's an open beta running at Fileplanet if you care to check this out. I suspect other places also have beta keys.

Just picked one up myself. I'll report back if/when I get a chance to take a look. 1.7GB will take me a little to download, though.

 

[DocBot]

Yeah, I'm getting the beta as well. You can, as usual, get equal or better speeds off GamersHell. Although that might be a slighter older version (3.0 or 0.3, I can't remember. There's no .1 in it, anyway).

 

[DocBot]

Okay, so far it's utter bollocks.

I can't join games (like quite a few others, it seems) and there's no fix.
There's no console.
Refreshing the server list takes at least 5 minutes, when it doesn't freeze the whole game.
No good answers on the forums or the support site.

So, to summarize: it's a 1.7 gig menu. Hopefully they'll fix the issues with joining servers rather soon...

 

[Nanor]

Mmm, Betas don't have a tremendously good track record, unfortunately.

Except TF2. That was like the finished product!

 

[Ronin Storm]

I can't join games (like quite a few others, it seems) and there's no fix.

Me neither.

 

[HotStuff]

Yeah this does look good.

The fact that the beta version hangs on the PC doesn't surprise me at all.

For PC/xbox 360 only...... why not PS3?

 

[waterproofbob]

Yeah this does look good.

The fact that the beta version hangs on the PC doesn't surprise me at all.

For PC/xbox 360 only...... why not PS3?

because it costs all the money in the world to develop games for the black money hole. This is why there is a distinct lack of good PS3 games as yet. Also it's an FPS why would you want it on a PS3?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Well, I've actually managed to play a few rounds. Suggestion to those who can't connect: try connecting to a server running oilfield with only 1 or 2 players playing. After that I've been able to connect okay to servers running street with many players on.

However, I've stopped for the night after getting sick and tired of being spawn raped and n00b-tubed. Not a great impression. Not had much chance to get into it so far as a result.

 

[Pubic_Warrior]

the game looks pretty cool,

but from the video it looks like toys r us

Ill be keeping my eye on this bad boy

 

[thatbloke]

There is a demo of this available on Xbox Live, I found out tonight so I downloaded it. Only played for 10 mins or so but it looks like damn good fun

 

[Nanor]

Well Eurogamer have had a bit of a preview and they seem to think that's it a great game.

Technically speaking, it's a game with plenty going for it, with the kind of detailed, sprawling and convincingly realistic environments you'd expect from an Unreal Engine 3-powered title. Benefiting from a solid frame-rate, highly detailed buildings and terrain and a pleasing degree of destructibility, Frontlines doesn't disappoint in any area. Despite featuring such sprawling terrain, compromises are few and far between, with the draw distance holding up well, no glitchy v-sync issues to report, and an impressive amount of attention to detail in all departments. Whether leaping out of a jet and parachuting down, driving a tank or clearing the confines of a building, Frontlines is a game which tackles whichever facet of war is thrown at it.

With a decent single-player campaign and a hugely promising multiplayer offering, Frontlines: Fuel of War is possibly the first game of its kind to successfully combine the immediacy of a scripted, cinematic FPS with the multiplayer depth of the Battlefield series. Rather than reduce the single player experience to a bot-laden training exercise, both elements of the game appear to stand up well in their own right and we await its release in February with interest...

I'm definitely looking forward to this. I doubt it will have the same "oomph" as BF2 but it still looks like fun.