Frontlines: Fuel of War

Frontlines: Fuel of War
Studio	Kaos Studios
Publisher	THQ
Erstveröffent- lichung	February 29, 2008
platform	Windows , Xbox 360
Game engine	Unreal Engine 3
genre	Ego shooter
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Keyboard , mouse , gamepad
medium	DVD-ROM , download
language	German, English, etc. a.
Age rating	USK PEGI

Frontlines: Fuel of War is a first person shooter for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 . The video game was released on February 29, 2008 in Europe. The team-based shooter was developed by Kaos Studios , which emerged from the Battlefield - Mod Team Trauma Studios , and is thus their first game. The game uses the Unreal Engine 3 .

action

Period

The following is a rough summary.

• 2006: The world enters the post-peak oil age.
• 2007: The former Soviet states want to join the EU and NATO. Russia reacts angrily.
• 2009: Resistance overwhelms the Pakistani government. A civil war breaks out.
• 2010: A CIA coup in Venezuela fails. Democracy movements in China are being smashed.
• 2011: The superpowers take a stand in the Sunni-Shiite conflict. China and Iran exchange oil and weapons.
• 2013: The Iran-Saudi war encroaches on the region and involves Israel.
• 2015: The economic crisis leads to civil unrest. The North American military raids oil supplies.
• ---- The Red Star Alliance is founded. ----
• 2016: The superpowers turn into police states and override elections.
• ---- The Western Coalition is founded. ----
• 2018: The main powers are no longer able to produce enough grain for their people.
• 2020: Military rearmament in the Middle East by the superpowers begins to secure the last oil fields.
• 2024: The Red Star Alliance occupies the strategically important oil fields of Turkmenistan.
• ---- The Third World War breaks out. ----
• June 2024: The Western Coalition launched a counterattack on Afghanistan.
• July 2024: The Western Coalition fights its way to the Caspian Sea and invades Russia with almost no resistance.
• August 2024: Hostilities break out between China and Taiwan, North Korea launches an attack on South Korea.
• September 2024: The Western Coalition dares an attack on the Russian heartland before the Chinese reinforcements arrive.
• October 2024: The Russian troops refuse to give up and are forced to retreat into the Ural Mountains.

Course of action

Frontlines: Fuel of War is set in a dystopian world in 2024, amid a global energy crisis . The plot of the game is told and reflected on in a politically critical way from the perspective of an embedded journalist , a war reporter. The game not only includes acts of war and their development, but also the upheavals in democratic societies in view of the global situation.

As oil / gas supplies dwindle, diplomatic ties between East and West are broken off and new alliances are formed . The two main alliances in Frontlines are the Western Coalition, consisting of the European Union and the United States , and the Red Star Alliance, founded by the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China . When the last oil fields begin to dry up, the countries secure the last raw material reserves with military intervention. The resulting skirmishes escalate into a global war as the game progresses. Towards the end of the game, the Western Coalition wins and pushes the Russian Red Star troops into the Urals.

The game includes some political commentary on how much wars cost, including raw materials. One sentence in the game reads: " How could a war over oil be fought, with machines that refilled upon it " (German: "How can a war over oil be waged with machines that are operated with just this ? ")

Gameplay

Frontlines includes both a single player - campaign and a multiplayer mode. The game offers the player various vehicles, air support and electronic warfare to complete the missions. The weapons are slightly futuristic, but their shape is reminiscent of real weapons.

Various ground and air vehicles are available to the player in both single and multiplayer. Including u. a. Jeeps, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. Furthermore, the player has the opportunity to make use of drone technology , as well as air support, e.g. B. in the form of artillery strikes to request. The weapons depend on the respective faction and are assigned using a classic class system.

The name Frontlines is derived from the game mechanics . Since the front line always runs along the currently contested mission / control points and all other points are deactivated, the main battles usually take place along the front line. Only when the mission points have been fulfilled does the front line move further towards the enemy base. This should also reduce the radius of action in battles with smaller teams.

The multiplayer mode takes place on maps of different sizes and allows up to 32 players in two factions to compete against each other. The two game factions fight for different control points or have to complete missions, such as switching off / destroying a functional unit. The map sizes vary greatly and offer city missions as well as larger desert areas and night missions. Some structures, e.g. B. walls can be destroyed without the use of additional hardware . A recovery system is used as the wounding model, which signals the injury not by means of a bar but by means of an audio - visual restriction of perception . The alter ego recovers independently after a short recovery phase.

development

The game is based on the Unreal Engine 3 and uses EAX 5.0 effects of the sound card via OpenAL . The game also calculates the speed of sound; any noises often hit the player later as light. Antialiasing support is provided by Frontlines: Fuel of War only via external measures. It is also possible to use PhysX acceleration in Frontlines . The software for setting up dedicated servers is only available for Windows . Punkbuster was integrated as anti-cheat software.

Originally Frontlines: Fuel of War was also developed for the PlayStation 3 , but publisher THQ announced that the work on January 24, 2008 was due to problems with the development for the PS3.

Web links

• Official homepage ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Frontlines: Fuel of War at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Storyline on fuelofwar.de ( Memento from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Frontlines: Fuel of War Test on eurogamer.de
3. ^ Frontlines: Fuel of War Review on IGN
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Frontlines: Fuel of War Review on 360-kombo
5. ↑ weapons on fuelofwar.de ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Vehicle overview on fuelofwar.de ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ FRONTLINES: FUEL OF WAR - DIE DROHNEN-TECHNIKER  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Gameplay: from front lines to communication ( memento of the original from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Frontlines: Fuel of War in a nutshell ( Memento from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ General information on frontlines.eu ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Cheater out - Frontlines soon with Punkbuster support
12. ↑ Frontlines: Fuel of War canceled for PS3