Frontlines: Fuel of War cancelled for PS3
- Posted January 23rd, 2008 at 18:37 EDT by
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THQ is disappointing the PS3 faithful once more as they have officially canned Frontlines: Fuel of War for the PlayStation 3. The rumors regarding this game were all over the place over the last handful of days and THQ has finally had the guts to come out and lay them to rest in nothing but a negative fashion.
Some speculate that an interview with Frank Delise done through Gamespot kind of gave the foreshadowing for this event. It was in this interview that Frank stated, "Mostly the engine we're using--Unreal Engine 3. One of the main things about it is that the PS3 came a year later than the Xbox 360, so that actually delayed us making a budget in a sense for what's possible on the PS3 versus the Xbox and PC. Also, the engine wasn't ready for a year later because the PS3 came out a year later. So [with] the Xbox and the PC platform we've found more solid a platform to develop on, but the engine is literally just finished for that platform and that's actually a long time. All the first games for the PS3 are coming out now for the PS3 on that engine."
Along with Frontlines being canned for the PS3, THQ has canned their Concrete Games Studio which had two unannounced titles scheduled for release over the next 2-3 years. With the recent cancellation of the small-hit Destroy All Humans and now this, it’s been a disappointing week overall thus far for gamers.
THQ had the following to say about the issue, "In October, we announced certain product quality initiatives, including personnel and structural changes in product development and a more rigorous internal and external product evaluation and feedback process," said Brian Farrell, president and CEO of THQ. "Consistent with these initiatives, we have taken actions to strengthen our pipeline and position ourselves to compete aggressively with compelling, high quality games."
I guess in order to strengthen their pipelines they’ve leaned towards weakening their pipeline to the PlayStation 3. This move may hurt their reputation in the long run.
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swanky2167 |
Sanguinary- 6:52pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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Whatever, one less bad FPS on the market. That's too bad about Destroy All Humans though. Never played it, but heard it was fun.
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SilentHillSam |
SilentHillSam- 6:56pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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NOOOOO! the ps3 was supposed to be easier to develop for nowadays! i hate THQ!!!
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CONFLICT__01 |
conflict01- 7:03pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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THQ are TO$$ER$ I wont be buying any of there CRAP ever again. I was actualy lookin forward to Front lines, and had been following it from the start, and Destroy all Humans has always been good fun in the past, so thats a bummer as well.
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RotaryMatt |
MattNasty- 7:06pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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who cares tht game looks boring anyways. just play COD4 and call it day
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Tears of Ash |
tearsofash- 7:27pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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I hope 2008 isn't the year of the downfall of THQ... Maybe I'm overreacting though...
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djrussell |
djrussell89- 7:32pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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Well I honestly cant say I'm disappointed because I had no intention to pick this game up - but at the same time that isnt very good news for people hanging out for this game. If they were gonna cancel it they should have cancelled it months ago! Its not good enough... now what happens to all the pre-orders aye? Stupid THQ.. rediculous.
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French |
French- 7:39pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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THQ probably didn't want to go up against Killzone 2 and Haze. They figured Playstation owners are more well rounded and don't just play FPSs. This would have been nothing more than a rental for me if I happened to be bored the week it came out, so I won't miss it. 360 gets Frontlines... PS3 get Metal Gear Solid... hmm, I'm gonna go cry now!!!
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Sunshine_Killer |
SunshineKiller- 7:42pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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hahaha who cares. I wouldnt have bought their lazy games anyways.
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RagingStorm |
RagingStormX- 7:45pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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Ok...can we get a list of all the "banned words" that the filter blocks....cause this is getting ridiculous. I can't post what I want to say concerning this article...and there isn't a cuss word in there. That my friend is weak sauce!
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dasteru |
kados- 8:00pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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Maybe it has been canned but i doubt it, devs have been known before to say games were canned when they werent, and it seems kinda strange that the company would confront a rumor with "the game is still on track" then 2 days later say it has been canned. most likely it was just an uninformed rep that isnt directly involved with the game.
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Hulkman5000 |
Blkscorp- 8:17pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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I wish they would confirm every rumor before posting it
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GryestOfBluSkies
- 8:48pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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wow great. UT3 runs the unreal engine great, but thq sucks too bad to use it. not that i care about more shooters, but its still BS
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cell989
- 8:50pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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what abunch of a**holes, but in reality I thank them for saving PS3 owners from purchasing a mediocre game. Its not like this is going to be a groundbreaking game or anything, its just another FPS with shot guns, rocket launchers and enemy soldiers. I'll stick with call of duty thank you. Xbots are welcome to keep this one.
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Cuttboy
- 9:26pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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i said it b4 and i'll say it again, this is by far the best thing that could happen and if they were smart they would can the game all together. the demo is complete trash, trust me, no one is going to buy this game and this is no hate for the 360, i have 1 but this game is simply horrible.
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lurkingshadow89 |
DEATH555666- 9:33pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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thats fine with me anyone who dosen't want in to the ps3 revolution can be left out on the curb. FL)CK THQ There games r a waist of time. my money isn't going to them till they make a real game.
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Undying_Darkness
- 10:50pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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i hope they like loosing our faith in them, because when THQ sees that are console is selling alot they will want to come back, well they can keep their CRAP!
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edward_moffet |
edd- 12:16am GMT - January 24th, 2008
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thats funny on g4 on the 22nd the feed said though being rumored canned it was merely delayed
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JonconThegreat
- 12:19am GMT - January 24th, 2008
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HAHAHAHAHAHA. That is over used now. The PS3 came out a year later.... it came out a year later. SHUT UP!!! I'm tired of that, get it outta here. That didn't stop epic from making Unreal Tournament, an amazing shooter using the Unreal Engine.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 1:28am GMT - January 24th, 2008
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Is Microsoft down to the point where they have to bribe studios for their platform? Probably wouldn't have gotten this title anyway. Glad THQ lost all that money deving for PS3.
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Naucious23 |
Naucious- 3:02am GMT - January 24th, 2008
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THQ lost credibility i dont know how they are going to bring it back for the sony faithfuls, just seems THQ isnt that great of devs as some people may think that they can't conquer the PS3 hardware like everyone else can. as a matter of fact I can't think of a game that was really an AAA title, I wasn't a fan of DAH played and sent it back to blockbuster that same week.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 6:12am GMT - January 24th, 2008
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So,their excuse,after UT3 released exclusively on ps3 last year,is that the unreal engine doesn't work properly on the ps3?THQ,are you serious?
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