The questionably fruity title are the first two words that I managed to rummage and yank out of my head to describe this first quarter of 2008, other than that Spring is going to be somewhat of a riot. With such post-winter titles like Turok and errr what was it? Conflict: Denied Ops we got a pretty decent stretch of titles. Not really sure about Conflict though but hey. Despite some of these arriving near the beginning of the second quarter these title presented enough credit to be close to initial spring release dates. No this is a rather colorful crew of titles and what is interesting- or more like cautionary about this gallery is that a few of them are straight-up original properties that probably are not on par with Bioshock but then again Condemned and Brothers In Arms were original titles in their fledgling days but they later grew into um, stardom. Alright, returning to the colorful part with eight titles, three of which we have played in demo form while the others are far off in the March and April realms but they seem promising.

-Frontlines: Fuel of War, February 25, 2008. This one will explode into retail…today I mean the day of this writing with a rather original premise or rather <shutter> prediction of a dystopian future caused by a shortage of Mama Earth’s lifeblood, oil. The world’s four remaining superpowers combine forces into their own confederations against each other. The Western Coalition, comprised of the U.S.orA and the European Onion VERSUS the Red Star Coalition, comprised of a restored Soviet Russia and the L.R.C-um P.R.C. The gameplay is based on a Battlefield-like mechanic of conquest where teams must capture key points on the battlefield in order to push back the frontlines against the others. And what are they fighting with? Modern technology of course! A mean we are talking about automated bots and orbital strikes and like, GPS.

-Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, February 26, 2008. Imagine this: late thirties, America continues to stay in isolation to repair herself from Depression while Great Britain and the rest of Europe begins to fight against Hitler’s war machine. Then on a routine conference trip to New York, Churchill gets pummeled by a taxi and eventually gets “accidentally” assassinated. As a result Europe gets enveloped by the dark mist of Nazism. Several years later the krauts decide to invade a slumbering U.S. Now most of this reminds me of that one EA classic Freedom Fighters in that the PC is a normal everyman blue-collar worker who rises from the ashes to fight with the American resistance.

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