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Gauging interest: Frontlines: Fuel of War
Nitsuj82
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I know a lot of us are getting excited for the next big thing after CoD4. I for one think this might be it. Here are some previews for those of you who have not yet checked it out.
Sorry, only X360 links since that's what I roll. However, it's coming to the PS3 and PC as well.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/frontlinesfuelofwar/index.html?tag=result;title;1
http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/frontlines-fuel-of-war/
My apologies for the crappy OP.
Sorry, only X360 links since that's what I roll. However, it's coming to the PS3 and PC as well.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/frontlinesfuelofwar/index.html?tag=result;title;1
http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/frontlines-fuel-of-war/
My apologies for the crappy OP.
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I'll have to check the demo out. It SOUNDED good.
If you read the other thread we had on this, you'll know my sentiments. I've played the single-player demo and the multi-player beta. Without a doubt, this was one of the worst multi-player games I have ever played. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but it's still pretty bad. While single-player was just sub-par, online play was so badly put together it actually made me angry.
Visually, it wasn't pleasing. Textures and models looked very low quality, even though I had all my settings set to high. There is an incredible level of fog in the game that you can confuse it for the Dynasty Warriors series. And once again, view distance was set to the maximum. Perhaps it was meant to shield me from the poor level design. They either felt empty or just boxy and confining. [Multi-player; SP looked a little better]
Gameplay didn't fare any better. All the guns felt weak and sounded weak. Hit box detection was so off you could be standing point blank from an enemy, unload an entire clip into them, and not hit them. It also doesn't help that the recoil on the guns are so enormous, that it makes it difficult to keep your gun on a target. As soon as you pull the trigger, and this is no exaggeration, your gun will rocket up vertically to the sky. This made a battle almost humorous between another player and me. We were probably ten feet away from each other, and he had an assault rifle while I had a sniper rifle. It took about ten seconds for one of us to kill the other.
The interface and menus also gave me a headache. Some buttons would only respond with the enter key and not the mouse, options wouldn't save and kept reverting to random levels, etc. It felt very sloppy.
All in all, it just feels clunky, buggy, unresponsive, weak... unfun. It oozes "amateur." It sounds cool, I know, and even some of the screenshots look really impressive, but playing it is a whole different ball game. I was seriously excited for this. I thought it would take the crown from Battlefield. It does not. The single-player seems to be getting most of the focus, but if you were interested in this only for online play, I do not recommend it.
"Clunky" is the perfect word to describe it, and nothing else. The game just feels 'wrong' to a degree I didn't think was possible, and really outlines how much needs to be 'right' in a game for it to be good.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
During the closed beta, you couldn't even play it. It was impossible to connect to a server. And that wasn't fixed until the open beta. During a miracle, you could get in, but like I said above, the level design and shooting felt weak and unresponsive. It's just not a fun game, and it's not a well made game.
This is Kaos Studios' first game. They're the team behind the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942. I guess they weren't the experts of the genre everyone thought them to be.
More or less, I am hoping there will be a game that will suck me in like CoD4 has.