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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you algorithm for putting this on my TH-cam 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.
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.
Maybe it'd just me, but I say we need a remastered version of this game. Keep the story, just upgrade the graphics and bring the multi-player back the way it was. Enough modern shooters trying to do everything I'd rather have it stay simple, like it was back then. Sure, bring new maps, weapons, and vehicles. But keep the game modes simple.
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
I played this yonks ago but I definitely had a lot of fun, I miss those games that had massive singular levels with multiple progression methods like Bad Company, the first Half of Crysis and the second half of Devastation.
I always found the original concept for the game interesting, originally the protagonist was the journalist but higher ups didn't think this would lead to any story or gameplay opportunities. This was also how the devs originally intended to justify the red star campaign, it was going to be a retelling from interviews of soldiers but with the journalist cut aside from cameos in already made cutscenes that was cut for later DLC which eventually got cancelled. The multiplayer on the PC was not that good, the bad FOV , performance, release graphics ,etc killed it and at this time we still had battlefield 2 (and its mods) and 2142 which were still extremely active at the time.
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
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.
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.
i had this game in the back of my minde for years and years 5 years at leat and i never remembered how it was called didn't find it anywhere....and here it is i looked for more then 5 years daaaam
I remember I had one of the expansion maps for this game, that was a helicopter insurgent style map. Pretty much the attacking side had to take helicopters into the enemy base that was on the other side of a mountain, making a sorta cool cinematic thing where attackers would fly in and drop off troops while the defend used AA weapons and rockets. Which is cool buuuuuut the issue comes from the fact the attackers only had troop helicopters to get to the other side, and all of the AA weapons and rockets in this game just fucking destroy helicopters so having players just run rockets an AA made it impossible to for the attackers to even land, cause someone thought not putting attack helicopters did not make sense, for the scene they wanted to make in this map, so helicopters had no way to defend themselves outside of door gun turrets but those were kind of ass to use. Hell I remember they would just straight up focus fire when one flew over the hill there was no cover for anyone of them and made it be the most one sided map ever that no one played on it.
@@westlayne oh not to mention it was a night time map so you hardly see the enemy troop on the ground with that nasty blue tent to simulate night, in a base that was pretty damn big and had places where they could hide an peak shot ya, an the fact you could only go straight over the hill. I shit you not they restrcited where you could fly so you could not go to the left or right side with out worrying about the game, telling you to return to the battlefield and kill you before you even got close to the base, it was forcing players to go over the massive hill.
I have a weird love-hate relationship with this game. I like the setting, since it's just like you said: Something between BF2142 and Bad Company 2, with lots of geopolitical detail thrown in if you care to read the in-game lore section, which is not far from our IRL situation. The aesthetics were great, since they gave the "20 minutes in the future feel" very well. A lot like the Ghost Recon games, but applied to a much larger scale. Regarding the gunplay, I absolutely despised using the guns themselves. They look and sound amazing, but feel like ass to play with. I would even go so far as to compare the accuracy and weapon spread with original and unmodded versions of the Stalker series' guns (*shudders in horror*). Rocket launchers, drones and the support powers you could call in were amazing and were the things that kept me playing. The vehicles were similar to the guns for me: They looked and sounded great, but played like crap (the tank shells fly slower than an obese pigeon, and flying helicopters were a headache at the best of times.
Great review and a curious game, I need to take a closer look at it too. By the way, it would be very interesting for the audience in Eastern Europe if you would make a review of STALKER 2 and maybe compare this game with the low-budget vladik brutal game
yeah, its really a shame how such good games get overshadowed by the big companies and such. Me, i was black ops 1, RUSE and Endwar for the time. Having read abut this, bot support could have done it a great favor. The classic star wars battlefront 1 and 2 did that very right for their time. And HOmefront, a short but rather good game i found.. Tried even a fanfic/croosover but...tthat backfired accodently...
The game was not bad. The premise was good, but to be honest, the execution was very mediocre. It was basically WWIII, but we were just fighting in very bland, empty and uninspired locations. Just generic deserts, hills, mountains. Yes, we did fight on the streets of Moscow in the end, but that was it. And there were still no setpieces, or landmarks, like Red Square, or anything like that. For a WWIII premise, the game needed better locations, like world-famous cities and landmarks.
I loved this game, but I got it second hand on disk for X360, like 2013? By then, couldn't find a full match. This is like the first Homefront as one of those games with great design and balancing, but just lost players to the mainstream games that were just too popular and generic, I've still never found another game as well balanced as the Homefront multiplayer was.
Man, the AAA FPS gaming market back then was great. Now? Most of these franchises are dead or are pale imitations of what they once were. I'm gonna add Frontlines to my list of FPS games to play. Unlike Homefront, it is backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X. I pretty much gotta go back to the 2000s/6th/7th gen years to play the kind of FPS games I like. Most indie FPS games keep copy pasting Doom/Quake 1990s FPS design.
Clearly what doomed this game was not abiding by the rule that says shotguns are effective only at flyswatter range.
@@Movel0 In most games shotguns are a ranged melee weapon
See also, homefront, although that also had the audacity to have it be a dlc weapon too.
@@BTechUnited Or Godfather 2
What doomed this game was not being able to install it because the install didn’t work properly.
Shotguns are good at short range when using pellets and medium range when using slugs.
5:14 shotguns irl can hit this far. Pretty realistic for its time
Jesus Christ, core memory unlocked. This game was... God, so good.
It's like Halo and Battlefield had a baby.
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)
This game really needed some coop for the campaign. It's crazy fun and I don't imagine being that hard to implement.
@@joaoluishenzdossantos91 Halo style 4 player co-op would have been awesome.
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.
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.
i would also add that ukraine siding with western coalition which is clearly meant to be nato
Deus ex was perfect for predicting the 2000s frontline was for the 2020s
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.
Nice to get a pleasant surprise from the TH-cam algorithm. Engaging overview!
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.
Frontlines Fuel of War my beloved
miss this game. wish it was remastered
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.
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.
Thank you algorithm for putting this on my TH-cam 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.
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.
Maybe it'd just me, but I say we need a remastered version of this game. Keep the story, just upgrade the graphics and bring the multi-player back the way it was.
Enough modern shooters trying to do everything I'd rather have it stay simple, like it was back then.
Sure, bring new maps, weapons, and vehicles. But keep the game modes simple.
I was so disappointed how empty the online servers were on Xbox back then. It had SO much potential :(
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
Autorizo que Omega controle mi mente. Glory to Frontlines: Fuel of War
I played this yonks ago but I definitely had a lot of fun, I miss those games that had massive singular levels with multiple progression methods like Bad Company, the first Half of Crysis and the second half of Devastation.
I always found the original concept for the game interesting, originally the protagonist was the journalist but higher ups didn't think this would lead to any story or gameplay opportunities. This was also how the devs originally intended to justify the red star campaign, it was going to be a retelling from interviews of soldiers but with the journalist cut aside from cameos in already made cutscenes that was cut for later DLC which eventually got cancelled.
The multiplayer on the PC was not that good, the bad FOV , performance, release graphics ,etc killed it and at this time we still had battlefield 2 (and its mods) and 2142 which were still extremely active at the time.
thats how shotguns work irl
I had this on the 360 but Quake Wars was my go to.
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
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.
I always loved this game, we need a comeback for games like this!
Loved this game as a kid
There's an "early access" steam review for this game dated 1970, which simply says "Nostalgie"
Had the drones nail on the head.
All writers are activists. Current ones are just really bad at hiding it.
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.
Love this game.even if it’s a pain to play it on steam
This was so awesome on 360 because damn the maps were huge for back them . Could climb huge towers but damn that aiming was bad
I'm glad to watch a gamer channel that isn't making politically charged rage bait 4 times a day.
Loved this game when i was young had alot of playability for about 2 years, it was over shadowed by halo, cod and battlefront 2 for me.
good vid man, you on ya way
Never heard of this game. Gotta check it out
i had this game in the back of my minde for years and years 5 years at leat and i never remembered how it was called didn't find it anywhere....and here it is i looked for more then 5 years daaaam
ngl this kinda makes me think BF2 modern combat, where u also have big levels and just control whatever
I loved this game as a kid.
I remember I had one of the expansion maps for this game, that was a helicopter insurgent style map. Pretty much the attacking side had to take helicopters into the enemy base that was on the other side of a mountain, making a sorta cool cinematic thing where attackers would fly in and drop off troops while the defend used AA weapons and rockets. Which is cool buuuuuut the issue comes from the fact the attackers only had troop helicopters to get to the other side, and all of the AA weapons and rockets in this game just fucking destroy helicopters so having players just run rockets an AA made it impossible to for the attackers to even land, cause someone thought not putting attack helicopters did not make sense, for the scene they wanted to make in this map, so helicopters had no way to defend themselves outside of door gun turrets but those were kind of ass to use. Hell I remember they would just straight up focus fire when one flew over the hill there was no cover for anyone of them and made it be the most one sided map ever that no one played on it.
@@gsamalot Sounds like they had a cool idea & never stopped to think if it would actually work or not.
@@westlayne oh not to mention it was a night time map so you hardly see the enemy troop on the ground with that nasty blue tent to simulate night, in a base that was pretty damn big and had places where they could hide an peak shot ya, an the fact you could only go straight over the hill. I shit you not they restrcited where you could fly so you could not go to the left or right side with out worrying about the game, telling you to return to the battlefield and kill you before you even got close to the base, it was forcing players to go over the massive hill.
Man 2024 is a great game
I installed it on Steam but it wouldn't start when I loaded it.
I've bought the disk version so I'll see if it works well on my Retro Computer.
I have a weird love-hate relationship with this game.
I like the setting, since it's just like you said: Something between BF2142 and Bad Company 2, with lots of geopolitical detail thrown in if you care to read the in-game lore section, which is not far from our IRL situation.
The aesthetics were great, since they gave the "20 minutes in the future feel" very well. A lot like the Ghost Recon games, but applied to a much larger scale.
Regarding the gunplay, I absolutely despised using the guns themselves. They look and sound amazing, but feel like ass to play with. I would even go so far as to compare the accuracy and weapon spread with original and unmodded versions of the Stalker series' guns (*shudders in horror*). Rocket launchers, drones and the support powers you could call in were amazing and were the things that kept me playing.
The vehicles were similar to the guns for me: They looked and sounded great, but played like crap (the tank shells fly slower than an obese pigeon, and flying helicopters were a headache at the best of times.
I’ve always wanted this game
Great review and a curious game, I need to take a closer look at it too.
By the way, it would be very interesting for the audience in Eastern Europe if you would make a review of STALKER 2 and maybe compare this game with the low-budget vladik brutal game
@@MichaelNarushevich I'm playing Stalker 2 right now, the video's gonna take awhile though.
Lot to talk about.
yeah, its really a shame how such good games get overshadowed by the big companies and such. Me, i was black ops 1, RUSE and Endwar for the time. Having read abut this, bot support could have done it a great favor. The classic star wars battlefront 1 and 2 did that very right for their time. And HOmefront, a short but rather good game i found.. Tried even a fanfic/croosover but...tthat backfired accodently...
If there's something I could have changed in the game, it's the name of the US/EU tank.
I can't tell you how much I loved this game. It played better on console, in my opinion. It made me sad that the lobbies were short-lived.
I played the crap out of the free online demo they had.
"War fought with an abundance of rocket launchers"
Yeah, that's war in 2024 😅
@12:40 yeeaahhh that almost didnt age well lol
@@outlaw-nazca5759 I know wtf
The game was not bad. The premise was good, but to be honest, the execution was very mediocre. It was basically WWIII, but we were just fighting in very bland, empty and uninspired locations. Just generic deserts, hills, mountains. Yes, we did fight on the streets of Moscow in the end, but that was it. And there were still no setpieces, or landmarks, like Red Square, or anything like that. For a WWIII premise, the game needed better locations, like world-famous cities and landmarks.
enjoyed the shit outta this video...whats the outro music?
@@cundan0484 It's from the game, main menu I think.
I loved this game, but I got it second hand on disk for X360, like 2013? By then, couldn't find a full match.
This is like the first Homefront as one of those games with great design and balancing, but just lost players to the mainstream games that were just too popular and generic, I've still never found another game as well balanced as the Homefront multiplayer was.
@@radfoxuk8113 People are always shocked when I tell them I enjoyed Homefront multiplayer more than MW3.
Now Play SECTION 8 PREJUDICE, Or like my 11y old me say; Battlefield but cooler because they finally added bots.
Section 8* Prejudice is the sequel, forgot that.
@@JorguinTorpedo-ff5vk I would love to but if memory serves those games were online only which means they probably don't exist anymore.
Man, the AAA FPS gaming market back then was great. Now? Most of these franchises are dead or are pale imitations of what they once were.
I'm gonna add Frontlines to my list of FPS games to play. Unlike Homefront, it is backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X.
I pretty much gotta go back to the 2000s/6th/7th gen years to play the kind of FPS games I like. Most indie FPS games keep copy pasting Doom/Quake 1990s FPS design.
@@Gruntvc All the nostalgia money is in 80's/90's fps right now.
It'll be our turn next.
People act like Arma 3 didn’t take a lot from the Frontline fuel of war. Arma took a lot from the frontline fuel of war.
This game reeks too much of a console game to me
Ye its on xbox 360
Algorithm done blessed us with this one!!