Frontlines: Fuel of War - Xbox 360

This game is great and right out of todays headlines. The graphics and storyline are amazing and really draw you in. The concept of an embedded reporter is a new / nice twist. The weapons selection is great and the vehicles and drones add a whole new dimension to this game. Control layout is easy to get used to, especially is you have played other FPS on the 360. As a person who primarily plays FPS, I would have to say, this is easily in the top 10. If you haven't played this game yet, you're missing out!

this game is fun if you just want a game to occupy your attention for a while. drones are uniquely fascinating. I like the campaign a lot. Online is meeeeeeeeh. It looks like they just threw it on there to have an online game. I would compare the style to rainbow six except worse. Only a few classes, one game type, hard to get in the games sometimes, looooooong rounds, gameplay is hardly challenging. There are a few online maps that are fun, but overall it's average. The controls are different from every fps i've ever played. Jets are cool, but too hard to fly online and it's hard to maneuver vehicles. Buy it for the campaign and occassional online play.

Ok so I got this game after playing the demo, and its a pretty good game. The single player is short, but ok. The only reason i gave it a 4 was because of online play. Ok so it takes forever to load/deploy, but its usually worth it. My favorite is the drone tech mode, where you get to deploy remote control vehicles. Some of them even shoot stuff, so its pretty sick. Although the game is pretty good, I'd still recommend just getting the demo through Xbox Live Marketplace, because it has all of the good parts of the game.

Frontlines: Fuel of War certainly does not rank up there with Call of Duty 4. But, on the battlefield you will see different things: not only will you have access to tanks and helicopters, but you will also have different types of ammunition to use. This includes not only Grenade Launchers, etc., but also things like remote planes and little tanks you can set up from a distance and then from there, you can shoot or blow up your enemies. I think they could have added maybe 8 - 10 more levels. One thing I like is that you can play at a hadcore level, if you prefer. Also, I think they should have pushed it a little further with the blood and guts thing to make it a rated "M" game, instead of "T". Shooter games rated "T", like this one, should only be given to gamers who are not the type for the all-out blood-and-guts (plus "no glory") type thing. This game was OK, but it is not that good to keep forever.

This is an interesting approach to Battlefield gameplay, with some awesome strengths and a few head-scratching weaknesses. The beauty of this scheme is that every battle, at any given time, focuses nicely on either one or just a few spots. So if you're in a game with a bunch of strangers, you can still count on everybody being on the same page, given that there are only a couple that they could possibly be on. Another thing that's nice about this setup is that you generally know where the enemy will be coming from and where they'll be going, so you don't have to constantly watch your back. On the flipside, it seems silly that you can't do anything useful from within enemy territory (other than hunker down at their spawn points and pick off recently defeated enemy players as soon as they jump back into the world). It just doesn't make sense that area C would be worth controlling only if you also have areas A and B. Furthermore, considering that all of the fighting is based around particular spawn points, you yourself will get killed off the moment you spawn into the world...a lot. Of course, there are ways around this (such as choosing to spawn in at a different point), but all the same, it sucks to wait through one long respawn time just to get zapped and wait through another. Before a battle, and any time you die, you can choose a loadout and a role type. The loadouts, of which there are six, determine the weapons you carry. For instance, if you choose the sniper loadout, you'll get a sniper rifle and a pistol. If you go antivehicle, you'll get a rocket launcher and a couple of other guns. All of these have their intended purposes, but they are far from equal. The heavy-assault loadout, with its huge, accurate machine gun, is far more powerful and versatile than any other, whereas the sniper rifle is generally useless due to its lack of stopping power. Balancing issues aside, it would make more sense for you to be able to pick up other peoples' guns. However, the role types are one of Frontlines' most interesting aspects. Each role confers three extra abilities on the player; you start with one of them, and earn the other two by doing normal stuff such as killing people and capturing points. One of the coolest roles lets you control three different types of unmanned combat drones. These are essentially RC cars and choppers covered with bombs and sometimes armed with rockets. Other roles let you repair vehicles, call down air strikes, or nullify enemy electronics. These aren't particularly balanced, either (setting up a grenade turret is pretty futile if someone decides to send an air strike at you), but on the other hand it's nice to always have some kind of powerful ability at your disposal. You also have lots of vehicles, from jeeps to tanks to aircraft, and they all respawn really fast. The catch is that they tend to spawn only at your base, which is hopefully far from the front line. However, most vehicles have two gears (slow and breakneck), so getting where you're going never takes long, and it can actually be a pretty fun ride. That is, until you run over some physics. You know this has happened when you try to drive over an abutment and your giant tank gets stuck pointing straight up in the air. Tricky terrain aside, the vehicles are powerful and fun to use, but easily destroyed by rockets or heavy fire. Frontlines' controls, both in vehicles and on foot, are very generic. You zoom with a click of a stick, throw grenades with the L trigger, shoot with the right, and change weapons in a radial menu that can be brought up at the push of a button. Nothing is new or exciting, but everything works. The same can be said for the online play. Running around in tanks and capturing points isn't a new concept, and you can say the same for calling in air strikes, but chances are it's been a while since you've done either, and it's as fun as you remember. The Battlefield games were never able to deliver a good single-player experience, and Frontlines unfortunately inherited that distinction as well. The campaign tells the story of a future in which only one oil field remains in the world, so everyone gets into a fight over it. The plot isn’t all that impressive; it unfolds with narrative lines like: "It all began in that hot, hot summer of 2008." The intro cinematic isn't quite that impressive, either; soldiers and a journalist trade tough-guy banter in a chopper that gets shot down and crash-lands you right into World War III. Anyway, the single-player campaign has you running around with guns, shooting dumb enemies, and capturing control points. For a game so heavily invested in online multiplayer, this isn't bad single-player content, but it isn't really worth your time, either. Once you play online, you'll probably never spend another minute in the campaign again. The graphics lack the level of visual fidelity you'll find in top-shelf games such as Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War, but they still look pretty good. There's serious fog of war in a few of the levels, but on the other hand, many of the environments look awesomely apocalyptic, with skeletal sky scrapers and floating pieces of debris. The sounds are also fine for the most part, and in particular the heavy machine gun sounds amazing. It has the audible impact of a jackhammer, which makes it one of the most entertaining virtual guns we've ever fired. EA and DICE will inevitably be back to reclaim their prized war machine at some point, but in the meantime we're glad THQ and Kaos Studios knocked off some of its rust and took it for a spin as Frontlines: Fuel of War. The online battlefield mode is fun and refreshing, the battle-line scheme is interesting (albeit limiting), and the single-player campaign is predictably worthless. Consequently, the biggest problem is paying top dollar for a used tank when you've probably already had this experience before.

I didn't care for this game at all. The single player is ok. The online suffers pretty badly. At first it seems ok, but then you realize that there is no replay value. This game only lasted me about 3 days and I was tired of it. Save your money for GTA, GH aerosmith, and GOW 2. I really wished that I at least tried Army of two or the new rainbow six before this.

I played the demo and it was pretty interesting. The introduction was incredible. The way they introduce the game is a great way to get the player into the world of the game. Controls are different from other shooters. Its best explained by comparing the controls of Call of Duty to Halo. They take time to learn. Very realistic and looks like there will be a good storyline.

I played the demo and this game rocks. The intro sequence is awesome. The goal of advancing your frontline of the battle is very unique, and variety of weapons is deep. The drones, especially the helicopter style ones, are a ton of fun. This is supposed to have 32 players online.