Hearthfall: EA Reveals The ‘Titanfall Frontline’ Card Game!

With the breakthrough appeal of Hearthstone a few years back it was only a matter of time until a cavalcade of online trading card games to repopulate the internet. Steam alone has seen several new online TCG’s this year including Duelyst, with untold pretenders lurking on cellphones worldwide. Hearthstones revival of the genre has made pretty much every high note developer devote their efforts to reinventing the wheel. 

Titanfall: Frontline is a joint effort between Particle City, Respawn (TF Dev), and Nexon games to bring a new breed of strategy game to iphones and android devices. The whisper on the street is that they are experimenting with creating a hybrid online game that will have elements of real time and turn based play. It will be released for free on the app store, presumably around when Titanfall 2 drops down.

So I opened this article up with Hearthstone, basically because even just a slight look at the images that have surrounded this title scream generic card game. Cards have an attack and defense stat, the keywords are Titanfall versions of time honored card abilities, and it’s pretty obviously a hit-point reduction duel between two players. Features mentioned by the dev includes hundreds of cards, strategies, and the aforementioned hybrid play style. Whether or not Frontlines has anything that will redeem itself awaits to be seen; but I’m preparing myself to be hearing nothing but titanfall slang this Christmas-time on the bus as the kids drop mecha on each-other. 

If you are looking for a new, interesting take on card games then TF: Frontlines may not be what you are looking for. Pretty much everything I have seen about it just remind me of other more established games that do effectively the same thing; but it’s still a month away and anything could happen. 

Titanfall 2 and it’s peripherals should be loading out this fall. Keep an eye out for Frontlines on the iOS and Android app stores!