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CES '08: Frontlines: Fuel of War Single-Player Hands-On

By Jason Ocampo, GameSpotPosted Jan 7, 2008 6:28 pm PT

THQ's and Kaos Studios' future-themed military action game shows off shortly before it launches next month.

LAS VEGAS--Frontlines: Fuel of War is a game that's got a couple of big ambitions. The first is to provide a large-scale multiplayer experience along the lines of Battlefield: Modern Combat. That means in addition to running around on foot, you can jump in and control a variety of vehicles on the battlefield. However, it also wants to add what Battlefield sorely lacks, which is a compelling single-player experience.

We checked out that single-player game by playing a mission called Mountain King, which tasks you with taking out an enemy missile base that's threatening to launch a nuke. This is a mission with a sequence of objectives; achieving one manages to unlock another as the radio fills you in on the changing situation. However, you get to employ a lot of the toys that will play a big role in the multiplayer game.

Mountain King is the sixth mission in the game's campaign, so it's pretty intense. The facility, which is sort of like a giant version of Cheyenne Mountain, is full of generator rooms, control centers, and large caverns, all swarming with bad guys. You've got a pistol, grenades, and an assault rifle, as well as a missile launcher that can be used against hardened positions, such as heavy machine gun posts. The really neat toys, though, are the drones that you can employ. A gun drone is like a radio control tank, and you can use it to dart into heavy fields of fire to pick off bad guys from a position of relative safety. The helicopter drone is also really useful in the multilevel missile silo because you can fly it remotely up the shaft and use rockets to wipe out grunts hiding behind cover.

There's a pretty shocking ending to the mission--one that we can't spoil. But it did give us a sense that there's going to be an interesting and hopefully meaningful story. Developer Kaos Studios is going to be busy finishing things up during the coming weeks. The game will ship next month for the PC and Xbox 360, while the PlayStation 3 version is due later in the year.

52 Comments

  • ripdareaper92

    Posted Mar 9, 2008 5:31 pm PT

    i got the demo from OXM and couldn't stop from playing, i plan to get this but i don't care what anyone says. In my heart nothing can replace ghost recon advanced warfighter 2.

  • taurian0205

    Posted Mar 7, 2008 10:16 pm PT

    this game is broken~~, whats the best aspect of a war video game? explosion!!!!!!!!! well this game aint got that ~ im returning it, waste of $99 for a broken unfinished game, i thought this game suppose to replace battlefield 2, but nahh epic failed~ im still playing battlefield 2 and prefers battlefield 2 over this game any day at any given time.
    sorry to say these words but thats how i feel from playing this game, oh yeah, the online servers is bad. im still waiting for the review of this game but i guess gamespot is taking their time with this review. you know why people!!!

  • Freakin-Gamer

    Posted Mar 4, 2008 5:29 pm PT

    Eh, no score? But still, a great game. Simply my point.

  • aaronannie68

    Posted Feb 21, 2008 7:46 pm PT

    very interesting game....among the many already set to release throughout the next few months. i am wondering how this one will match up against Turning Point. Both look cool.

  • Titanicles

    Posted Feb 18, 2008 8:27 am PT

    I thought the PS3 version was cancelled...

  • Cookie2-0

    Posted Feb 16, 2008 7:05 pm PT

    I really hope this game will enploy some sort of cover system ( like rainbow 6 vegas) and not just be u standing there taking bullets run around the corner, come back take bullets to the face keep running and bulldoze ur'e way threw sorta thing

  • scottishlocard

    Posted Feb 15, 2008 5:24 pm PT

    Even though this demo might be a little on the "shotty" side, I am still going to buy it for the fact that this is one of the first FPS games that could offer the experience of some PC games like Planet Side, etc, etc for the 360. Hit or Miss, it is going to be a lot of fun, although Im curious to see if there is going to be a fix to the lag, or some type of "Ping Regulation" option that you could add to a dedicated server to allow for the optimum gameplay. For Example: Set your maximum ping at 150 or lower so that game lag doesnt become an issue.

    I think that this game is going to turn a lot of heads in the rite direction for future online gameplay... and that is all that really matters.

  • magnetorex

    Posted Feb 13, 2008 11:56 am PT

    I agree with stupidbluefunky about the demo. it wasn't horrible, but it sure as hell didn't blow my hair back. I also read some of the posts that say this is an old demo, and i think to myself, that's effin brilliant! Make the demo kind of, meh, only to make the game seem that much better. it's like reverse psychology! Brilliant i say! Anyways, this game looks like it may be something new to play, and hopefully won't fall into the clone genre

  • Cookie2-0

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 11:46 pm PT

    JUST A FEW MORE DAYS TO GO .. god i ahve been looking foward to this game for months ... oh well time to get some sleep I predict some late nights in my future

  • Darreo

    Posted Jan 22, 2008 3:11 pm PT

    I've seen the trailers, dev diaries & played the demo. I hated Halo......Ok I got bored of it. (I'm a Tom Clancy fan) I hated COD (I'm a Tom Clancy fan) and don't have a computer to have played those other P.C. based games. I think this game like others is going to start a great franchise and will offer something different to FPS & Multiplayer games in general. I played Tribes: Arial Assault on ps2 and think it looks and feels allot like a super better version of that game. I love games big enough to house vehicles and do them well. I look forward not behind. And this game looks bright.

  • bobnice

    Posted Jan 21, 2008 9:42 pm PT

    Dont worry SuperBlueMonkey if you didnt like the demo, there are posts from KaosMitch himself saying that it is an old demo running off an old Code. The reason for that he said was because Kaos Studios developed that demo for Microsoft a very long time ago but Microsoft took a very long time to give it to us, probably because it had to be released in the magazine (OXM) a while before it was put on Marketplace. I am in the Beta for the PC version and i can tell you it feels and looks much better than that older demo. IT IS EXACTLY LIKE BATTLEFIELD 2 and BATTLEFIELD 2142 that came out for the computer, which is a compliment. They are supposed to be releasing an updated Multiplayer demo for the Xbox 360 sometime in Feb.

  • SMASHED_ASPHALT

    Posted Jan 20, 2008 7:23 am PT

    I liked the demo and thought it was pretty fun.

  • SuperBlueMonkey

    Posted Jan 17, 2008 9:57 am PT

    Played the demo - very lame, nothing new in the slightest. To be honest, I thought it was a joke that money had been spent to make such a bad game and the fact that it's an FPS is hilarious because how do you cock up an FPS with all the successful titles that have been released in the past and present? Does THQ and Kaos Studios play any successful FPS games? The game looks like a 2D FPS, everythings so static, the weapons are typical and the whole setting could've been taken from any of the Call Of Duty games. This sucks plain and simple.

  • St0Ne4Ge

    Posted Jan 16, 2008 4:17 pm PT

    man i downloaded the demo for this game n i gota say im dissappointed, i like the idea of the little battle machines u kno, but the engine itself doesnt feel great, maybe im too use to source and cod engine but this dont quite seem fluent. its sluggish, the graphics arent special and the overall gameplay is not of the standard of the best fps out right now. for that im gona give it a miss, big dissappointment considerin how cool the trailer is

  • illuminatirexx

    Posted Jan 14, 2008 2:06 pm PT

    To all those comparing this to halo...dont...halo is nothing compared to this game, Personaly I think halo is one of the most overrated games ever, ok now that I got it out of me lol, I actually enjoy playing the multiplayer beta, its fun, but the game really needs buildings taht one may enter and shoot form windows. Also an addition of AA, and vsinc is really needes, and maby FOV would help a bit for some of us that get a bit quizzy with low angls like TF2 does have that option to regulate it.

    As to the gamespot "preview" man lol and you guyz are paid for such crap reviews/previews? so dissapointing.

  • Syzgygy

    Posted Jan 13, 2008 7:37 pm PT

    I'm currently playing the multiplayer beta. I'm loving the game. A few tweaks and alterations/additions here and there, and the game is going to be great!

  • ChestyMcGee

    Posted Jan 13, 2008 4:42 am PT

    I played the demo, didn't like it. Pretty terrible graphics with even worse AI and a dodgy control scheme. It's like Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, only worse (and that's pretty hard to achieve).

  • wheater

    Posted Jan 12, 2008 5:28 pm PT

    I liked the demo but i hope that they sort out the recoil on the machine gun, its terrible after one shot your basically aiming in the air, very annoying. I also dont like the reload button, takes some time to get used to it, but i will get this game, looks and plays really well.

  • dartheggs973

    Posted Jan 12, 2008 4:11 pm PT

    "Demo was terrible and I lost interest very fast on it, was actually happy when it finished. Why someone would buy this over COD4, the Orange Box, Halo and many more is beyond me."
    -Quote from MotownJunk

    I acually own all three of those and I didnt think the demo was THAT bad, I admit it had it pretty big flaws, but if you look at what it says on the menu for the demo, "this demo does not reflect the actuall game". I actually think they had a lot of new ideas that were really good. I've been watching the game since the first trailer, and I really hope they pull through with a really good game.

  • nate1222

    Posted Jan 11, 2008 6:55 pm PT

    Looks like it'll rock. It should get me by until Mercenaries: World In Flames comes out. I loved Mercs: PoD on PS2.

    Hopfully, in real life, we can get some politicians whom ARE NOT bought out by 'big oil' so that the events in this games story don't become a reality.

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