Initially the player character begins on the frontlines during D-Day backed up by other computer AI-controlled soldiers with an emphasis on fast action-orientated gun-based gameplay.
Each mission is structured through a number of linear levels, each with differing locations, levels of action and styles of gameplay.
Briefings take place at the start of each mission, which advance the plot and introduce new characters. Frontline is a first-person shooter where players take control of the protagonist player character in a first-person perspective where they fight through levels set during the Second World War against the Wehrmacht using historical weaponry of the era, performing a series of military operations.
