Frontlines: Fuel of War is a first-person shooter from KAOS Studios, a development house whose core team is comprised of the creators of Desert Combat and the R&D team for Battlefield 2. The developer's pedigree is immediately evident upon playing Frontlines. The game is designed primarily as a multiplayer shooter with a strong emphasis on team play, with a healthy variety of vehicles and character roles to keep the action fresh.
Frontlines: Fuel of War features a modestly-sized single-player campaign that you could complete in a handful of hours. The single-player campaign can be seen as an extensive tutorial for the much longer-lasting multiplayer meat of the game, but that shouldn't be seen as dismissing its effectiveness. The campaign is quite entertaining, giving you a chance to utilize all the nifty tricks and high-tech weaponry that you'll need to master in order to excel in multiplayer, while also offering up some of the better vehicle-based missions we've played in a shooter.
Driving can be difficult at first, since the controls take some getting used to, and the flight controls in particular can be quite challenging. We've seen plenty of helicopters lift off only to crash a few seconds later. This sort of thing is always worth a good laugh, but is also an indicator of a much larger problem related to an unfriendly control scheme.
Minimum PC System Requirements PC Processor Type Intel® Pentium® processor, AMD Athlon™ processor PC Processor Speed 2.8GHz PC Operating System Windows XP, Windows Vista PC System Memory 768MB PC Hard Drive Space 12GB PC Video ATI RADEON X800XT or NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT video card PC Sound Card DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card PC Drive Type and Speed DVD-ROM PC Additional Requirements Internet service required to access online features