2024: The Official Video Game | Frontlines: Fuel Of War

[@Arax.__.]

FINALLY SOMEONE COVERS THIS! This game is amazing. The og multiplayer servers are down but there is one discord server that hosts pc lobbies at the end of the week every week. It can be found in the steam guides. If this can be pinned or a comment repeating this can be pinned, that would be amazing.

[@akooma3694]

im installing after seeing this comment

[@madcat789]

Jesus Christ, core memory unlocked. This game was... God, so good.

[@mattc7420]

It's like Halo and Battlefield had a baby.

[@willwolf8436]

It was a lot of fun. I stuck around after everyone left. It was sad to see it go.

[@PyroSexTech]

Yes! Im glad to see fans of this forgotten but awesome game! I loved how much variety the classes brought to the game 🤌

[@Movel0]

Clearly what doomed this game was not abiding by the rule that says shotguns are effective only at flyswatter range.

[@westlayne]

@@Movel0 In most games shotguns are a ranged melee weapon

[@BTechUnited]

See also, homefront, although that also had the audacity to have it be a dlc weapon too.

[@giguyjoe]

@@BTechUnited Or Godfather 2

[@LtColwtf]

What doomed this game was not being able to install it because the install didn’t work properly.

[@angeloluna529]

Shotguns are good at short range when using pellets and medium range when using slugs.

[@Jayalen]

5:14 shotguns irl can hit this far. Pretty realistic for its time

[@SeenInMirrors]

It's also one of the few games I've seen that takes distance into account for how fast sounds reach you, like explosions.

[@pricelessppp]

Rifled slug shotguns also

[@lm-rh3qo]

Yeah shotguns are pretty insane against unarmored and even armored targets with just cut shells.

[@thatguy4305]

@@lm-rh3qo cut shells, wax slugs, you name it. shotguns are insanely accurate and powerful for how crude they are. it's basically the principle of naval grape shot cannons applied to a portable handgun

[@WichoSuavee]

There’s a reason the Germans hated em in WWI ;)

[@coopermatlack4238]

My dad was a developer for this game!! He bought my brother and I an Xbox 360 and a gave us a collectors edition of the game when it came out. This game was a blast to play and i remember my brother and I always stopping to look at the trading cards that came with our copy of the game.

[@joaoluishenzdossantos91]

This game really needed some coop for the campaign. It's crazy fun and I don't imagine being that hard to implement.

[@westlayne]

@@joaoluishenzdossantos91 Halo style 4 player co-op would have been awesome.

[@stargate12345678]

@@westlayne As you never got to play it, I can say from personal experience, that with a group of 4-5 mates playing this for hours in full lobbies on the Xbox 360 back during its peak was one of the most fun gaming memories I have.

[@planescaped]

Avian flu pandemic, Russia and China allying, crashing economies, everything sucks. Man, this game predicted 2024 better than any of Deus Ex's predictions, lol.

[@Reinboa]

Would agree if the Russia/China alliance didn’t already exist way before this game released, the economy crashing and everything just being ass already. The pandemic seemed to be the only thing it got. And for Deus Ex, at least the original, has predicted way more then this, MGS 2 and every game past it, and others. The game basically predicted the past 2 decades a year before 9/11 happened. You can’t beat that.

[@Mikkku]

i would also add that ukraine siding with western coalition which is clearly meant to be nato

[@Tab1300]

Deus ex was perfect for predicting the 2000s frontline was for the 2020s

[@ChiefCrewin]

Except the main point-running out of oil. That's always the main spark but we have enough oil for a hundred years.

[@Alex-jb8wr]

@@Reinboa I mean even the pandemic part is not correct but a copy. This game came out on 2008, I think this game was probably referencing the 2004 SARS global pandemic and the 2005 US bird flu scare

[@BTechUnited]

Nice to get a pleasant surprise from the KZbin algorithm. Engaging overview!

[@dwarfdigger135]

Frontlines Fuel of War my beloved

[@Ally5141]

Driving right into detonating nukes was the peak of the campaign.

[@lukeskywanker7839]

I watched my grandfather play this on his 360. He was a huge gamer and would play online on this game, bad company, cod and so much more. I miss watching him play games as he passed away a few years ago. Definitely a core memory unlocked. I love Frontlines.

[@katzarkul]

I played this game back in 2008, when I bought it because I couldn't get COD4MW (yeah we used to have street stalls selling pirated games in India back in the day) and I absolutely loved it. Really nice to see a review that doesn't just dismiss it as a Battlefield clone and actually talks about the game's strengths. I loved the effort they put into the lore.

[@meyers0781]

i like how, along with Battlefront, is that the vehicle controls are easier while Battlefield vehicle controls tried to be realistic for the wrong reasons.

[@eyohboy455]

Best shoter since the original battlefront and cod mw/ww1

[@Reiyuko]

Despite the release cadence of fantastic games in 2008, my child self always played Fuel of War when my friends were not around. The game was unknown when I played it back then. Thank you for this video reminder, it was a concise and agreeable breakdown. I loved drones, they reminded me of what I wanted in Vice City RC vehicles. I look forward to the next video.

[@thedigitaldummy3098]

15:29 funny thing is is that gun isn’t fake. The XM8 was a proposed replacement for the M4 by Heckler & Koch based on the earlier OICW program started by the US Army. It would be canceled in 2005 due to the M4’s replacement becoming too expensive with what little stock had already been produced being sold to Malaysia. Whether the predictions were correct or not, it’s fascinating to see how what was around at the time influenced the world building. It’s also nice that there’s finally a game where the fish gun that could’ve gets to take centre stage.

[@MrTJPAS]

If I recall correctly, this game had originally been meant to release in 2007, but got delayed to 2008, and that probably helped seal its fate to living in the shadow of COD4 and Battlefield Bad Company. Maybe if it had met its original launch date, it would have had some time to garner attention before those other two games came out.

[@Vash001]

It's almost as if the shotguns had realistic shotgun range. Cod and Battlefield have warped peoples sense of reality on a shotguns actual range Examples by ammo type Buckshot: About 35 meters (38 yards) Birdshot: About 45 meters (49 yards) Slugs: About 100 meters (110 yards) Saboted slugs in rifled barrels: Well over 150 meters (160 yards)

[@anonimus370]

is this for accuracy or effective range? Cuz ain't no way birdshot has better effective range than buckshot. It probably would struggle with thick clothes at 45 meters.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

it's a balancing thing. I promise you, any game that has accurate shotgun range without advanced armor mechanics, has an OP shotgun.

[@NHGAFWYUTB]

@@anonimus370yeah the birdshot take is wild, maybe he flipped em on accident.

[@_Davepocalypse]

This game was criminally underrated. We all lost out with this franchise not taken forward.

[@gregp7379]

I purchased the special edition for this game. It came with a fake green metal ammo tin, which I still use today to collect odd bullets over the years. And yes, an underrated GEM.

[@Tomofdahook17]

Homefront’s multiplayer was very similar to this but the drones and vehicles were score streaks. It was a perfect combo between CoD and Battlefield. Even the way the main game mode was a tug of war was awesome.

[@ShadowDreamer100]

same team that made it

[@thecornfieldiii2069]

Yeah i loved homefront's mp, played it on ps3 for hours and hours, I hated the map that had the church

[@TheMALEK789]

I was talking to my dad a few weeks ago about an old game I played as a kid, that's not BF or Quake Wars with big maps and stuff, neither of us could think of what it was called... and lo and behold YT recommendations save the day. Instantly bought the game on Steam for myself and my dad :)

[@Clone003]

That idea of switching to another soldier on the map when you die while the battle just continues on is so cool

[@slicex3408]

It’s taken from Battlefield:Modern Combat on Xbox/Ps2

[@HamanKarn567]

I thought Battlefield Modern Combat was the only game that used that system where you could switch between soldiers mid mission. This looks awesome liks it took that idea amd heavily expanded on it. Someone told me this game was an rts style game which was online only back in the day and I forgot about it. I definitely need to try this game out.

[@aarongerard7277]

Thank you algorithm for putting this on my KZbin homepage. Still have my copy of Frontlines for 360 and pop it into my Xbox One every now and then when I get the mood to play this again.

[@davidquezada50]

miss this game. wish it was remastered

[@rathapolr.3666]

Here's a joke for you, one of my classmate when the game was new got a trick that you can headshot most soldiers with smg and it's strong enough to kill them in one tap, you could've been specialist and still got plenty of ammo to deal with soldiers. I plan to test this theory once i get any chance to pick up that old disk again. I wasn't paying attention on difficulty back at 2000's.

[@crispy-pt9pq]

Great video on a great forgotten gem! Thank you for unlocking great times from the depths of my memory

[@TheGamingDefinition]

Brilliant game that I never knew existed, thanks for bringing it back to light!

[@MadM0nte]

This game was released into an era of such powerful competition yet if you ask me it's probably the best multiplayer shooter of the year. It's mechanics were deep, graphics amazing, variety unheard of for console, and it boasted 50 player lobbies at a time where BF3 could only muster a measly 24. This game is GOATed.

[@thatzaliasguy]

Dang, I didn't know BF3 on console was only 24player... Makes me more glad Ive been on PC since '96 lol

[@TheJohn_Highway]

BC1 and 2 were a billion times better. Moar players doesn't compete with environmental destruction and awesome gunplay

[@ChiefCrewin]

​@@TheJohn_HighwayI agree BC was better but I wouldn't say a billion.

[@cattysplat]

@@TheJohn_Highway True Bad Company was mind blowingly revolutionary at the time and changed the game. Static battlefields were boring. Only works in CoD becuase it's basically an arena game in tiny boxes for maps.

[@jakefahey7152]

thank you for bringing up so many random memories in my head, much appreciated

[@zzurge1173]

*CUZZZZ EVERYDAYYYYY IM ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME* 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯

[@westlayne]

@@zzurge1173 Lowkey a banger. I wanted to use it in the video but didn't dare.

[@elPominator]

I actually have the CD for that somewhere around here, the collectors edition of the game came with a soundtrack CD with that as the opener

[@zzurge1173]

@@elPominator Historic

[@davidpurpleartist8125]

Honestly Frontline Fuel of War and Battlefield 2 Modern Combat are the only two games that show that your just a cog in the machine of just dying you go to a new soldier instead of failing the mission. But I loved this game when I was younger. Honestly, I just like how the developers gave detailed information for individual weapons and vehicles to make the world fleshed out. I love how they actually have shotguns actually can reaching far instead of the target being right in your face to be useful.

[@vaevictis2789]

Chopper controls is something that took 13 years old me quite some time to master but boy did it pay off, it really could wreak havoc

[@sanse7370]

One thing I never forgot about this game was the sound effects. Mostly from the guns but the sound effects in general is just fantastic

[@BigBossXCV]

Loved this game as a kid. Thx for the nostalgia time

[@sambonz]

I bought this back in the day when it originally released, and absolutely loved it alongside Quake Wars, Battlefield 2 MC, and Bad Company. Great review - thanks for taking us for a wander down memory lane. Subbed! 👌

[@potatogaming3491]

holy shit, for so long ive had this game in the back of my mind like "what was that game i played as a kid again?" and finally i found it, cant wait to play it again.

[@Myth0l0gic]

Oh man this game had some awesome multiplayer when it was alive lol. Flying a jet around watching all the tanks and infantry below you was something else in 2008.

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

It's been years since I last played this game. It was a lot of fun. It would be great if this series continued.

[@Jamio_]

Only just learned that this was the same studio that went on to make Homefront! You can see so much of the bones of that game in this, its really interesting.

[@AD-nd3wb]

Man, I remember having the most ridiculous fun in this game. Multiplayer always gave interesting moments

[@DukeOfWars]

One of the few things i remember about this game was in one of the multiplayer maps, there was random vehicle you could find. it was essentially a wasteland modified food truck with a gatling gun on top. it was sorta armored and was ok against infantry. The weird/fun thing about it was that it could drift and pulling the e brake made it turn sideways and slide for 100s of feet. it was really easy to get roadkills with what amounts to a sliding wall

[@jimelliot4904]

I remember feeling my heart sink listening to the future world articulated in the intro when firing it up at a friend’s house in the early 2000s. A big reset from the heroic COD narratives

[@GloriousGrunt]

Thanks for this great overview, the game looks perfect for me but I didn't know it existed. You've earned another sub!

[@perspective11-]

wow thanks for reminding me of this gem from the OG days

[@SIGNAL-c6u]

This game was god tier. The mulitplayer had a lot of maps, and OH BOY were these some good maps. You could climb all over the maps and free jump with parachute from the tops of building to outflank enemies. It had so much charm. It was so much fun. It was truly a brilliant large scale shooter.

[@tyguy6296]

I remember playing this game pretty seriously back in the day. It didn't last long... maybe a year for me. two for the hardcore guys... but it was a HUGE amount of fun. All of the "game breaking" features were actually a great thing because the factions were evenly matched, nothing was inaccessible to all players, and everything had a counter. It was really only game breaking if you tried to play the game as you would any other battlefield shooter. Once you developed new strategies and got a solid team together, the entire game changed from a generic and poorly balanced battlefield clone into something very unique. We had dedicated drone operators, counter-drone teams, assault teams, etc. and when everyone was playing "correctly" nothing actually felt unbalanced. An assault drone wiping out a whole squad didn't feel broken. it was just something that we needed to deal with in a very specific way. The only thing that ever felt really bad was the tanks... basically a death trap, regardless of what tactics you used. Some maps were set up well enough to use them as good direct fire support, but mostly we just used them as expendable bullet sponges so we could rush in as they die lol. They were fine for public games, but a good and cohesive team made tanks unusable. very underrated game. probably one of the best of the genre.

[@Dr_McKay]

That feature where you become a different soldier if you die was in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on Xbox/PS2 from 2005 as well. I'm surprised more games haven't used it.

[@tylerchristensen1484]

I only remember this game from a TV commercial about it back in my freshman year of high school in 2007-08.

[@Destrado_]

I have some great memories playing this game. Made a lot of friends on xbox playing together.

[@derrickgl]

This is a great channel man

[@morganfreeaimthebountyhunt7682]

Imagine joining the Army to fight for your country and then some Joker with a remote control helicopter shoots you in the face with a tiny rocket

[@ChiefCrewin]

Have you seen combat footage from Ukraine?

[@stoneylepi]

Played this back when it came out, was my first multiplayer experience in a game and I remember it was huge for little corridor call of duty minded Stoney. It also never failed to make me ill after playing it, like motion sickness dialed to 100

[@JoeShmoe376]

I was so disappointed how empty the online servers were on Xbox back then. It had SO much potential :(

[@fuzzlewuzzle9388]

I replayed this game so much as a teenager. Never got to try multiplayer, because my 360 wasn't online for awhile.

[@retribution_vbz4699]

I literally replayed this game again last week and the soundtrack is so good and underrated, Its not pure gold but its def worth a recommendation to look for the ost on yt.

[@theicequeen32]

i used to play this game so much just cause it was fun and the story was good. It just FELT good. I miss it

[@PanmaTG.Gaming]

Holy sh*t, thanks for this video, I just realized that I actually played this game during my childhood years.

[@thepennywhistler]

Goddam what a blast from the past. I adored this game. Got scary good at sniping there for a bit.

[@Schizo00]

I always come back to this game and Timeshift every few years ❤

[@HaloFTW55]

I'm glad that this game gets attention, this was my childhood.

[@DualFury]

I value cooperation and team support in multiplayer, so that’s difficult online. Frontlines multiplayer made a good player feel valuable to the team kinda like Commander in Battlefield 2 (2005). If you were racking up points in Frontlines conquest you could choose vehicle drops/air strikes right away to keep the momentum going possibly ensuring victory for your team, or bank them to solo counter a 4-man squad with a drone while you hid behind a rock, preventing your team from losing a base. You were constantly questioning when you should spam your perks/drops/vehicles/airstrikes like Overwatch ultimates, but in Battlefield. Fun game

[@EclipsoR_X]

Forgotten gem, deserved a proper sequel. You could find me in the Mohawk in Oilfield or Solar Farm, great battles. -Eclipsor GLA

[@AndrasBuzas1908]

Do Section 8: Prejudice next

[@omgitsesa8823]

As a kid multiplayer was peak gaming for me. The "huge" player count and chaos that it brought made battles unique. All the tanks planes drones n ppl just going at it

[@mtgAzim]

I only ever got to play the demos for this back in the day. I had no idea they made Homefront. It's funny because I immediately thought of it when watching this. I did get to play a bit of Homefront MP when it was up. It was pretty good. Especially considering that it was one of my earlier PC games, and I had come from 360 mostly, and had spent so much time on the various Battlefields and CoD's. By comparison Homefront had excellent hit detection. I was so annoyed at the time by the horrid bullet lag in Bad Company 1, and the bizarre hit detection in CoD. There were so many times in WaW where I'd shot someone in the ankle, but get a head shot, or people sniping are multiple feet off target, but still get the hit. Going over to Homefront which had really accurate and fast hit-scan was a breath of fresh air. And TTK was low as well. It did lend itself to griefing though, because there were few limits on calling various support and vehicles if you had the points to do so, and spawn camping always ensured that the most griefy players had an ample supply. Still, glad I got to experience it, for a bit anyway.

[@KedrChadEater]

I LOVED THIS GAME only played it after it had died on xbox and it had at most 10 ppl, met one of my best gaming buddies as a kid there! game was ahead of its time

[@CheefIndian]

I played this game like 10x through because it was one of the few xbox 360 games I had growing up. It was so goooood.

[@kerbal666]

I play this game all the way through every few years since I got it back in 2009. I love it!

[@potawatadingdong]

Seeing the direction shooters went in, I regret not taking more advantage of these games growing up.

[@somethingmoredecent]

This game was great, very fond childhood memories

[@Kronorath]

underrated game!!! Multiplayer was dope and the campaign was fun asf

[@ranganesquik2920]

6:29 totally expected a turret toss clip ngl

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Man, this game deserved so much more. I played the MP demo, I know I bought the game at some point but idr if it was new or secondhand. This was a solid game.

[@Xweapon9099]

I had no idea what game this was until like around 2:00 then was instantly flooded with memories of how badass it was

[@clarenszephir9993]

One of my all time favourite games loved this game

[@Zunedoodle77]

I appreciate that this game is getting a second look. It was good when it came out but was never going to be able to be able to compete with Halo, CoD, or BF

[@borgKick]

good vid man, you on ya way

[@rogue_9xtsj]

This just triggered so many memories for me.

[@DownBreakProductions]

This is one of my favorite games as a kid and one of a few single player games I actually finished. I remember playing the demo at GameStop and thinking this is the coolest game ever.

[@Scorch052]

Fun fact: the studio that made this game actually started out as a mod team for Battlefield 1942, which makes a lot of sense when you realize this game is just a modernized Battlefield 2 with a near-future aesthetic. That's not a slight against them at all, either, as I think they emulated the classic Battlefield gameplay better than anyone while solving a lot of problems those games had like underwhelming gunplay and lackluster sound design.

[@hurrikage09]

Crazy I loved this game as a kid.

[@derrickgl]

Even the SOUND smells like 2008 air

[@pather2905]

I remember my sister letting me buy this game at a Newbury comics because it was on sale for $8. I got so many memories for those $8.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

A game with realistic shotguns? Yes please.

[@ethanforster]

I absolutely love this game, shame it never really got popular, but it did have a dedicated player base for years.

[@thejonathan130]

There's an "early access" steam review for this game dated 1970, which simply says "Nostalgie"

[@magnusjmj]

I'm happy and somewhat surprised to find out this game actually existed and wasn't just some fever dream I had as a kid - have seen no reference to it since I played it briefly as a kid in 2008, lol

[@derrickgl]

Omg homefront and fuel of war are blood related!!!! Totally makes sense!

[@PatchWorkExe]

I love this game. I played this a lot as a kid.

[@spencerbuchanan95]

Having games like these growing up, I feel helped me develop a healthy tempered expectation of the future. Like things aren’t great but at least it’s not as bad as Frontline was gonna make it out to be. I mean we're only in a proxy war with Russia, and having Cold War 2.0 with China. But it’s not full-scale WW3 and hey…no peak oil…😅

[@tropicalpines4585]

Wow. I was just thinking about this game recently. I remember how much fun the demo was on Xbox 360.

[@chadsoucek4678]

Homefront was crazy to play back then and funny you mentioned Homefront. The campaign for that wasn’t the best but the multiplayer felt so alien and new it was pretty cool. Miss games like these.

[@ScantilyCladPlatypus]

I miss this games multiplayer it was genuinely so fun. they added a crazy big map with multiple jets and future A-10's but sadly the servers didn't handle it all super well and it got super choppy. but man the battles were huge and the drones and air support classes were so fucking cool and super different between the two factions

[@vrapbrap]

This game was notoriously hard to run with max settings on release. Kinda interesting how it still sorta holds up visually, in that weird "old but good looking" kinda way.

[@TheMCD1989]

Man I miss this game, I remember being genuinely excited for this when it came out. I think it delivered on all those promises too, I think it only failed due to poor marketing and there were some other huge name games like you mentioned that were at their absolute peak at the time. The main thing that I remember fondly about this game was that it sounded absolutely amazing. On par or maybe even better than Battlefield at the time.

[@Le_pakg446]

I love how these games really thought guns would look like fish

[@zacharydelcollo2805]

Got this game a few days ago for the Xbox series X and so far I love it! Better than any of the recent battlefield games in my opinion.

[@corrion1]

Its like a battlefield 2 fever dream

[@ZeeMPee]

I remember getting this on the Xbox when I was in elementary. I don’t remember getting past the 1st stage lol, I should replay it.

[@voidofhope6259]

I remember my dad buying this for me and my brothers randomly around the time it came out. He enjoyed watching us play Battlefield and shit like that so I guess he felt compelled to pick it up lol glad he did because we played the fuck outta this. Good fuckin times