Frontlines has a proper single player campaign, based on the activities of the Stray Dog assault company during a critical period of what soon becomes a third-world war. Those cynically expecting a glorified bot-match are in for a shock. Most importantly, it’s a game where single-player action – not just multiplayer – is a real priority. Yet Frontline does deviate from the established Battlefield formula in some very significant ways. Denying any similarity between the two games would just be silly. If you’re a Battlefield 2 veteran, even the scenery and the character models can seem eerily familiar at times. It’s also a game that demands and rewards teamwork rather than every-man-for-himself showboating. It also focuses heavily on vehicles, with a range of different armoured cars, tanks, helicopters and jets for those moments when you need to travel (and blow things up) in relative safety and style. This is still fundamentally a game of large maps designed for large numbers of troops, based around control points to occupy and objectives to destroy. The latter might not be surprising considering that in a past life its developer, Kaos Studios, was known as Trauma Studios best known for creating the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942.įor a whole mass of other reasons, it’s impossible to talk about Frontlines without mentioning DICE’s Battlefield series – and particularly Battlefield 2. Of course, Frontlines isn’t actually set in the modern day – the conflict in question is a near-future scrap over oil and energy between a Russian/Chinese alliance and the western world – but it still feels very much like Call of Duty 4 or Battlefield 2.
Is modern combat the new World War II? With Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4 and Conflict: Denied Ops behind us and Battlefield: Bad Company and Far Cry 2 ahead, it’s definitely beginning to feel that way.
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