Frontlines Fuel of War preview for the PC

We've gone hands-on this month with Frontlines: Fuel of War, the massive shooter due out on the PC in March. Frontlines takes place in the near-future, a future where the oil is running out fast and the world has descended into war and chaos as nations slug it out for the last few drops of the black gold. And as you'd expect, you're at the centre of all this fighting, with all the weapons and military backup you could hope for. Frontlines: Fuel of War looks set to be an utterly absorbing shooter with masses of action and a solid plot - find out more in our hands-on preview now!
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Frontlines Fuel of War preview for the PC

It's the day after tomorrow and oil is finally running out. Nations are bickering, entire cities are rioting and and humanity has been brought to its knees with a crash. It's the worst disaster in our history. So thank heavens there's still good ol' war to help sort things out again.

Frontlines' near-future setting is surprisingly bleak and creepy for a large scale, team-based multiplayer shooter, but that wasn't Kaos Studios' aim. Their cutscenes are 100% stock action movie, it's just that when you deal with subject matter as plausible as this it's hard to stop things from getting a bit spooky. No matter- if Frontlines is ever going to be competition for EA's Battlefield series then Kaos need the kind of strong, contemporary setting that Battlefield 2142 mistakenly decided against. And Frontlines' setting is very, very cool indeed.

It seems in the year 2024 the average soldier has a lot more toys to play with. Advents in robotics mean lots of soldiers carry remote control drones that range from rocket-equipped helicopters to C4 charges on supercharged wheels. Then there's the EMP technology that allows specialist soldiers to operate invisible to radar, or fire rockets and deploy transmitters that shut down any vehicle or computer in the area.