| Frontlines: Fuel of War |
 Frontlines: Fuel of War FRONTLINES: FUEL OF WAR ESD. Frontlines: Fuel of War is an open-world First Person Shooter set on the frontlines of tomorrow. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression Setting Frontlines: Fuel of War takes place in 2024, in a post-'Peak Oil' world with two global superpowers, the Western Coalition (the U.S.A. and the E.U.) and the Red Star Alliance, (Russia and China) battling over the last remaining sources around the Caspian. The lack of oil and failure of alternate sources to provide enough energy has exacerbated other disasters, including blackouts in 2008, avian influenza in 2009, and a global depression in 2012. (This game was made in 2008! Wake up sheeple!) The lack of oil has no in-game effect (vehicles can't run out, for instance, and maps still contain the expected assortment of explosive containers.) Single-player Campaign The campaign is narrated by a journalist embedded with the 'Stray Dogs', a company in the Western Coalition force; during missions the player has control of a series of generic soldiers within the company. The campaign begins with the Stray Dogs flying in for a six-week guard in Turkmenistan at one of the last operating refineries to relieve the previous company, when they are ambushed by Red Star ("Darkness Falls"). After retaking the refinery the action moves to southern Kazakhstan ("Captains of Industry") in one of the Coalition's first offensives, where the Stray Dogs take control of a Red Star tank factory and find blueprints within. The journalist discovers through his sources that China has used the opportunity to invade and take control of Taiwan, and that rioting and starvation has become an enormous problem in the USA. The Stray Dogs continue to try and block Red Star reinforcements by capturing a mountain pass in Tajikistan ("Anvil"), and the Coalition presses the advantage and advances north to the Russian border. At an old USSR space launch facility in north Kazakhstan the company is assisting an armored division when the Red Star attack them with tactical nuclear missiles; although casualties are high, enough Coalition forces survive to capture and destroy several longer-range rockets ("Graveyard"). Amidst Red Star counterattacks throughout Europe, the Coalition receives intelligence of a planned ICBM launch (described as 'thirteen-hundred Hiroshimas') in an underground mountain base, and the Stray Dogs are among those assigned to prevent it ("Mountain King"). Although ultimately successful, their abort codes fail to stop the rocket and the only option is to seal the silo doors, with the ICBM detonating inside and killing many of the Stray Dogs. The Coalition continues to advance and eventually reaches the outskirts of Moscow ("Living Quarter"), and eventually downtown Moscow ("History Repeats"). After taking several Government buildings and defending a square against the Red Star's final push, the remaining Red Star forces retreat. The Stray Dogs celebrate the victory, but the reporter reminds them that China will continue to fight on... Single-player missions are broken up into several phases as the frontline 'moves', and are effectively multi-player games against (limited respawning) bots with a few scripted events. System Requirements Minimum Supported OS: Windows XP (32/64) or Windows Vista (32/64) Processor: Intel Pentium 2.8HT or AMD Athlon 2800 Memory: 768MB/1GB for Vista Graphics: nVidia 6800GT (SM3) or ATI X800XT (SM2) w/ Latest applicable video drivers DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 Sound: AC '97 or equivalent DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card Hard Drive: 12 GB Internet: Broadband connection (min upload 768K for hosting games) Recommended Supported OS: Windows XP (32/64) or Windows Vista (32/64) Processor: Intel Core2 E6400 (2.13GHz) or AMD X2 5000 Memory: 1.5GB Graphics: nVidia 8600GTX or ATI X2600 w/ Latest applicable video drivers DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 Sound: Creative Labs X-Fi sound card Hard Drive: 12 GB Internet: Broadband connection (min upload 768K for hosting games) Price: 19.99 |