Sunday, 9 March 2008

frontlines review part 1

this is the first part of my frontlines:fuel of war review where in i shall review the single player.

You may be wondering why i dont just review everything in one, well i have decided that the single and multi player aspects of this game are so diffrent that they warrent there own reviews.
so first a little bit of plot: frontlines is set in the year 2024 in a yet another post-apocaliptic waste land that seem to be the only thing we have to look forward to.
but this one has an intresting twist and that is that it is a really likly timeline, here is a quick run down:

the oil in the middle east starts to run out and that region bassicly goes in to complete civil war(well ok the hole place gets nuked which is what i have been saying we should do all along)
then the developed world starts to feel the strian and pretty soon all hell has broke lose.
Russia and china form the RED STAR alience and start to look for the last oil.

the EU and america form a aliance and take controle of the remaning oil fields.

and all this leads to a very black hawk down esk first level intro and some of the most tear inducing lines since Evil Dead.

on to the gameplay, on the hole this is a very easy to use system of contoles once you figure them out, if you are striaght out of COD4 like me then you will struggle for a while but once you get used to it the controls start to make sense and you will be blasting those naughty ruskys (who are the only people you fight strangle) with ease.

the single player story is very short taking at most five hours on normal although there is added value with all the timed achevments and what not but i can say with a amount of certanty that it will prove to be no more than a training mode for the online witch i will review with in the next two days.

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