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PC Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
THQ and Kaos Studios' upcoming Frontlines: Fuel of War will support over 50 players online when it's released on PC and 360 this month.
Kaos folks confirmed the news on the dev's forum. "We actually hit 73 during testing but we are taking baby steps as this is a pretty big leap," one of the staffers noted.
Frontlines multiplayer features a "unique role and load-out system allowing players to customise their character to suit any situation", in the words of its publisher.
There's already a 32-player Xbox Live demo available with two maps to play through to help you get your head around that.
Sadly though PS3 owners won't be able to join in with this one, after THQ decided to cancel that version.
Frontlines is a near-future first-person shooter inspired by the idea that the world would probably go a bit bat-s*** if we ran out of oil.
The developer, Kaos, was formed out of the ashes of Trauma Studios, the folks who handled Battlefield 1942's Desert Combat mod and eventually became part of that game's developer, DICE, before it all blew up.
So Frontlines has some serious potential and a solid team behind it. Watch out for our review in the lead-up to the 29th February release on PC and 360 to see whether it capitalises on that.
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Scurrminator
18/02/08 @ 15:40
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if only they had used the 360 party system this game could have been great, instead you have the pain of inviting friends and them not being on your team and so on - ftl :-(
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WillyWanka
18/02/08 @ 15:40
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my first friend huzzah. This game is sounding pretty immense...I want to play the demo but Uni will only let me have 1gb of taffic before the fine me. The swines
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strange_powers
18/02/08 @ 15:54
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I was very pleasantly surprised by the demo of this - slick and playable. I bet the single player campaign is awful, though.
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Chrono-Kun
18/02/08 @ 16:24
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Well this sucks... A game I might be buying and now... it won't come out on the PS3 D=
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The Kaos EU servers are the better ones lag wise.
@Xerx3s This game handles larger numbers of players by having bigger levels and implementing a nice squad system. The MP is improved a lot over the SP. It is still a little rough round the edges though - which detracts from what looks to be a good game idea with a lot of detail and work put into it. |
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I really didn't like th PC demo. The maps were very linear because of the "push" system, which means that you nearly always get shot as soon as you spawn from an enemy that's camped in far away. The reason BF2 works is because the maps are open-ended enough to allow for multiple strategies and dynamic combat. I'll pass on this.
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Ford_Assassin
19/02/08 @ 07:26
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The multi-player demo is well better than the single player and is alot of fun. They have done alot to the weapon aiming and how your character controls.
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muscleblade
19/02/08 @ 09:29
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Fronlines, Army of two, Viking and Condemned 2 is on my shopping list for the coming weeks.
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