Being an FPS for Xbox360 and go after Bioschok, Gears of War, Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, should acojonar an egg, just enough to not try to go up and want to be caliph instead of the caliph.

The greatest virtue and the biggest ever default Frontlines is to be precisely the result of his time. It is a game correctly, with minor innovations, but not in danger beyond what is necessary. Know your strengths and limitations, it's like when you go to dance and marcarte some ligues: know what you can do and what not, what can you say and what not. However, that prevents you from playing in the league of the great masters, as much you eat something, but never succeed with the queen.

Frontlines argument is (serious) not talking about a combination of history and ambience as Bioshock, and yet another story of redemption through the blood in Gears of War, only a couple of lines then sprinkle with a succession of clichés, but it works pretty well, especially the large dubbing and so well calculated the timing of events.

The idea of Frontlines revolves around a confrontation global energy resources, which is unfortunately very modern, very real and is also well told. It is probably being a plausible plot that draws in a campaign that saved a few surprises up its sleeve, despite the circular paths used.

However, the campaign mode is just a tutorial for the multiplayer. The stealth missions are to learn to be sniper, the driving to get used to the controls, the mini vehicles to learn to handle them. And all, absolutely all missions, are a return to common places. In fact the whole campaign Frontlines is like having to endure watching Neo black cats everywhere and Trinity highlighting the obvious: it is a déjà vu.

The most poignant is that it makes no sense currarse a story about the shortage of energy resources and raise the conflict as if the Third World War, after which the impact of this premise in the game is zero. The single player has a thousand times seen in other multiplayer games and in our actions have no consequences beyond the number of frags made. It is in games like these where you realize that the argument is almost an excuse needed by programmers who the players. With the argument in mind creating weapons, scenarios, units, ... but when it comes to play, and is given ostias point.

Frontlines is an easy game, in fact, seems to be asking for forgiveness when the player dies. The regeneration of life is to stop occasionally and a deep breath, if we join this being an arsenal foot, the result makes us demigods. Weapons do not convey any sense of weight and power, "and although the sound effects leave a good impression, it would certainly fail to mitigate the effect Mattel.

At death, we have the possibility of deploying again on the battlefield. In the single player this means that, as in the MOH: Airbone, reappears as if we were members of the second or third wave of attack, are not the enemies that we have settled before and, ultimately, just walking in empty venues until we return to the point where we palms. In multiplayer, you can choose where to reappear among the points that control our side, which always gives humorous moments and subsequent spawnkilling insults frantic 5 minutes if the place chosen for return is being assaulted by the enemy.

Our partners usually go ahead of us is not necessarily a suicide IA, but too risky. If other games where you strip the other, this will find that although you choose a path for reaching this goal, part of the troops that they take the shortcut out of the ball and eventually reaching the goal even before as you.

The enemies are always the same guy with the same uniform and the same anxiety about eating your lead spitting machine gun, which I am not saying do not know cover, sometimes they do, but have a marked fondness for jump-run front of us like a chicken crossing the road in question. We understand that we are facing an army, but there are short, fat, thin, different bodies, different units, are made more lack variety, it seems, as in fear, always kill the same hijodeputa. Only in the final assault on a city whose name was not mentioned, we find something different enemies, and the excuse is that they are militia.

The main problem is that it is repetitive, just doing virtually the same thing over and over again. Not to mention a widespread scourge in games that talk about world wars is that few if any time we come to believe that we are immersed in a global conflict. It gives the feeling of being immersed in small skirmishes and two points off except when the Russians have caught the ball and they do all they can do at that moment to turn the tortilla is when the value of global reach the situation.

Roots

One thing is to work above what others have done and create something from scratch. Have calved Desert Combat and gives you extra kudos, but Kaos could have been something more risky. Frontlines can not hide who his parents are, so far there is a single player campaign, the real reason for Leiv is a multiplayer game.

Is a pure multiplayer Battlefield in all its aspects, but added two amendments which give personality: attack targets and mini vehicles. As a great game stretch of the rope, the teams will have to corral the enemy does not leave breathing. the battle moves from great distances and fighting vehicles, to the melee in the final moments, and then back to attack from a distance. The idea of incorporating the goals fronts causing several things:

In single player, the feeling that only work as checkpoints and saved, because the won can not be recovered by the enemy (except in one screen counted wrong), and thus clearing the illusion of being involved in a conflict war moderately serious. The enemies rarely counteract the feeling of going and led to the den of the wolf is constant.

In multiplayer, progress on fronts prevent incursions into enemy territory (no strategic value) and usually cause the concentration of troops around the goals. We can choose the point of the front on which we appear in either the more advanced position and to keep up the attacks of an opponent, or go to the rear positions onto the vehicles. The patrol system should allow greater synchronization within the teams and players to deploy so that the pressure on the enemy is constantly compared.

The vehicles are well compensated and, unlike in Battlefield, the air units are not necessarily indestructible units of land. Undoubtedly the charm and the most interesting and fun, the mini vehicles. If, before the hated Snipers and generally to all campers, now I meet a new type of player static, but it offers a considerable mobility, with advanced monitoring capability, a high power of destruction in advanced stages of the battle and above all an extraordinary advocate positions.

Mini vehicles can be handled as suicide units, and faith that meet its mission, to locate an enemy and pounce on it for the mini helicopter to explode right in your chepa gives more pleasure than to terminate it in a salad shots .

Slip below the tank with a mini car teleridigido and ready to blow the low of the day is cojonudo.

But to get a mini helicopter gunship divide between those who seek firewood assaulting our position is simply glorious, a single unit, possibly the weakest of all those that are currently in the field, you can go back to armored vehicles and disrupt an infantry attack at a crucial time for the balance of fronts.

Each player can choose a default class, and within that specialize in a particular role, whether air support, destroying vehicles, engineer units, etc ... the balance achieved is remarkable and it is essential to get used to because all the roles Frontlines is a game back and forth, which are constantly changing fronts and raisins with numerical superiority to see only to find you and surrounded by enemies at a time.

Pity the small number of maps and the lag that exists in practically all servers (including officers). Still, Frontlines is a fun game, but not phone the next day.

The feeling that one is left in the body playing Frontlines is always the most interesting thing happening in a second and third level. It's like being in a place and really be looking in another which is only a few meters. Come on, as if spitting at people from the VIP area of trendy nightclubs. Everybody wants to be up there with those of Gamesajare, but of course, if we are all up, who spit.

6.5 AJAR