Gaming Frontlines: Fuel of War

It was truely and thoroughly rubbish if you ask me. I tried the SP and found it boring to the extreme. If the MP is even worse then I just don't see who would buy this game. I only played to the first vehicle-mission, but it proved to be even worse than the action on foot. I just wonder how the hell they only managed to reshape the helicopter and add some (invisible) armor to the guys when the guns are still so damn bad? I found it easiest to just run at close range and shoot the damn russians at close range. This brings me to the storyline. It's lame. Really made me feel like I was in a propaganda movie. The bad guys don't hit and it's our DUTY to take this fuel dump on the opposite side of the planet. Cmon.

Ok enough of my rant, try it if you wish, but I just found it in no way pleasant experience. SPs are cheesy to begin with in my books, but CoD4 was still easily better than this. Like outlawaol earlier said, I'll stick to CoD4 where it feels like you're actually shooting and hitting.

 

As always, I was hoping that Joe's review would either cane the game or demonstrate that it was a must-have... but this review did neither. I don't wont to waste money on something that isn't decent, but nor do I want to miss out on a great game.

Given other posters comments, I think I'll stick with the reviews conclusion - it's a respectable game, but not the next game I want to invest 200hrs in. It's competent, uninspiring.

I loved BF2, but have now left it behind. CoD4 was fun and I still play it sometimes, but it was no BF2. So what comes next? What is going to be BF2's spiritual successor and when is it coming out?

A couple of years ago I'd play BF2 every day; these days I flit between half a dozen games, and I feel little loyalty to any of them. When is the next game coming out that will grab my imagination?

 

Trust me, I love being able to find really great games I can sing the praises of too, but Frontlines isn't one of them.

 

Hey Joe, I thought your review was very balanced it sums the game up nicely. I found the single player very interesting, game play was to short but the story more than made up for it. The multi-player is lacking in certain elements such as ranks but overall it plays better than QW:ET. I agree with cjmUK, the last game to really grab all my spare time was BF2. Frontlines has the potential to succeed BF2 but it still requires some tweeks and one of the positives I've seen so far from Kaos is that they are very attentive to the community. Hopefully they can still get the formula right.