The US retaliates with economic embargoes and surgical military action intended to cripple the economy and topple the regime.

World oil prices, already high, begin to surge based upon fears that any widening of the conflict could drastically reduce oil production.Īttempted coup by pro-US, CIA backed military officers in Venzuela fails and US involvement is revealed to the international community.

military sitting between them in Iraq prevents them from going to all-out-war. The Sunni/Sh'ite conflict raging across the Middle East deepens as Iran and Saudi Arabia fight a proxy war against each other using ethnic and religious militants who launch bloody insurgencies in each country, terrorizing the civlian populations and causing shocking amounts of infrastructure damage. NATO member states iterate their commitment to reinforce the independence of those republics, much to the satisfaction of US and EU oil companies who are pumping oil from the region. Georgian republics, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia join the EU, against the strong protestations of the Russian Federation. The disease will continue to outbreak for the next 10 years. Global influenza pandemic first of many subsequent H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks kills thousands, mainly in South East Asia, and causes tightened borders, and paranoia. Oil prices begin an irrevocable rise that slowly begins to weigh on global economies and leads political leaders to increasingly place energy at the forefront of national policies.Ī process of pulling the strategically valuable former Soviet republics away from Russia and integrating them into the EU and NATO is begun, much to the chagrin of the Russians. The beginning of the Long Emergency, global peak oil extraction is reached. 10 2016: The Western Coalition is Formed.Older gamers with a taste for the genre will likely find it to be a reasonably satisfying romp, nothing more. In the end, Frontlines is a perfectly competent shooter with an interesting hook, but it simply doesn't stand apart in any significant way from the glut of big budget, high gloss first-person shooters currently lining store shelves. But the attack prowess of these machines can be a double-edged sword they're sometimes so powerful that they can take an enemy objective all their own, which has the effect of making the campaign mode feel, at times, too easy. They also typically carry a heavy load of ammunition, making them surprisingly effective offensive tools. They have the ability provide a bird's eye view of a battlefield, which is useful for identifying enemy troop locations. The only time any sort of strategizing really becomes attractive is when you come into possession of the game's futuristic flying drones, which can be great fun to pilot. Players will usually find just as much success rushing headlong toward whichever objective appears closest on the map. But in practice, tactics are surprisingly unnecessary. This liberty of choice is the game's shtick, as it were, designed to provide players the ability to develop their own strategies for each mission. In both campaign and online multiplayer modes, the action takes place on large, free-to-roam maps, and players can tackle objectives in whatever order they choose.

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