Frontlines

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 732

Lend us 20 quid someone.. Rolling Eyes

Might get it but i dont want to let COD4 slip with the progress we have made in that game.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:34 am

Any of you playing this on Vista? is it playable.
I've got Vista and an 8600Nvidia card, so I'm troubled by both problems talked about...

Question

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:51 pm

Still a lot of bad user comments on teh web, I hope they sort it out otherwise I think FFoW will sadly disappear into the interweb obscurity of could have beens......

To be fair a lot of peeps are saying it is fun etc but a lot of these guys also state it is flawed.

It's a shame that they were obviously forced to rush the release before the game was finished properly.

Now convince me to buy it anyway
Wink

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Nope

I am enjoying it - if the flaws overtake playability - a bit like it did on BF2142 then fine - I think however that this game is going in a slightly different direction the reason being the team behind it are deeply rooted in MODs and that sort of culture - so therefore I am hoping that we will see frequent updates etc appearing - the proof will be in the pudding until then I will continue with my Tamiya fan boyism.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:52 pm

I'm still debating.. £20 from Game... or more nappies for Bobette.... hmmm Evil or Very Mad

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Get the nappies we dont want your sort in here.....or Brune

Very Happy

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:01 pm

One option could be shit while the other will be full of shit, in the words of a great man "It's a shit business" Smile

Joined: Aug 04, 2006 Posts: 188 Location: Portsmouth

As with POTBS which i see died a quick death on here, im going to wait a few months and see if anyones still playing it, or maybe as its my b.day coming up ill get someone to buy it for me Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:24 pm

My sort ? cor, i've not been 'my sort' for ages.
Bovva boots out of the wardrobe and off i go Twisted Evil

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Call me a hothead but my feeling is that Brune has already bought the game and will be playing it tonight

and the more I think about it Bedlams baby will be crapping in an empty DVD case tonite as he plays it as well!! > Shuts door and heads off to william hills>

Consoles Moderator Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 848

starskysdad wrote:

Call me a hothead but my feeling is that Brune has already bought the game and will be playing it tonight

and the more I think about it Bedlams baby will be crapping in an empty DVD case tonite as he plays it as well!! > Shuts door and heads off to william hills>

hell yah just use the case as a napiie lol! (i hope this thread won't be printed by someone to show bobette when she can read lol)

Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 344 Location: Kent

koj1ro wrote:

all the maps are good in fact excelent but beware of bunny hoping noobtubers i am afraid.

Fantastic - where's my credit card Twisted Evil

ElGordo

Joined: Jun 14, 2007 Posts: 313

rotfl @ gordo lol Razz

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Here is a review for the game from trustedreview.com

http://www.trustedreviews.com/gaming/review/2008/03/02/Frontlines-Fuel-of-War/p1

Echoes my sentiments but I think it is much better than BF2 than he suggests and the spawn killing is not as bad as he makes out - you spawn on the frontline you expect crap to happen you spawn further back yer ok.

I am really surprised that no one from our BF2 community is discussing this!

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:16 pm

Cheers Starsky.

From trustedreview

Quote:

One final point: the PC version is not the most stable of beasts at the moment, despite a worryingly hasty patch on day one of release. Vista users, those with onboard sound and those with Geforce graphics cards seem to be suffering particularly badly - and as I tick all of the above boxes I had a hellish time getting the game up and running. You might want to bear this in mind and wait for more patches to roll out before making your purchase.
Verdict-
A worthy opponent to the established Battlefield series augmented by a decent single-player campaign. Frontlines is neither different enough nor exciting enough to make it essential, but if you're a fan of this genre you'll definitely enjoy it.

Gamespy reviewed the patched version and had this to say

Quote:

The premature PC launch has been a technical headache and major disappointment for a large number of users. Our inability to get the game to run on Vista is especially disheartening. Considering how excited we were to play what should have been the next Battlefield-style experience, we can't help but call this a missed opportunity. If you can get it to run, there's a lot to like in Frontlines: Fuel of War, and it could provide for many late nights of multiplayer excitement. But for now, your best bet is to wait until the dust clears and hope for something, soon, that resembles a finished product.

So I guess I'll be waiting for another patch or two before I get tempted Wink