Homefront

[zak13317]

Have we failed to mention this amazing video game?




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The campaign kicks off with a montage chronicling the next 15 years. As gas shortages lead to civil unrest, the United States weakens while across the Pacific, new expansionist leadership leads North Korea into a golden age. This video paints a satisfyingly plausible picture, and collectible clippings throughout the campaign flesh things out even more. With every image of a bread line and article about the consolidation of America's armed forces, it gets easier and easier to suspend your disbelief. As Homefront's vision of the future becomes more believable, the events of the campaign hit closer to home. An introductory travel sequence in the spirit of Half-Life brings you up to speed very quickly with how bad things are, and one particularly shocking execution scene will likely stay with you throughout the entire game. Homefront's most intense moments aren't action movie sequences--they are emotionally wrenching, human encounters with the horrors of war.
The setting is the standout in Homefront's campaign, though the story is more of a tour through this rich scenario than a compelling journey in its own right. The characters who accompany you the whole time have a few good bits of dialogue and create some dramatic moments, but they aren't developed well enough to make you really care about them. This detachment can help you overlook the occasional friendly AI blunders, but don't expect your companions to carry much weight. As in many modern shooters, you are the workhorse. The action itself is solid and proceeds at a pace that steadily intensifies as small shootouts give way to larger skirmishes. An explosive mid-campaign climax leads into a stealthy infiltration, and a much-foreshadowed vehicle sequence near the end delivers nicely. Despite the fact that you are a small resistance force, you scrounge a variety of powerful guns from the enemy, giving you a substantial (and satisfying) arsenal. Homefront gives lip service to things like having to be frugal with ammunition and getting creative to avoid patrols, but it mostly plays out like a standard, linear shooter campaign.
It's a shame that the action isn't really on the same wavelength as the setting, but the environments you traverse reinforce your grim situation well. Though Homefront isn't a beautiful game, there are a lot of thoughtful details that provide echoes of earlier conflict and show different stages of societal breakdown. There are some issues with screen-tearing and characters clipping through solid objects, but on the whole the visuals are equal to the task. Unfortunately, the campaign wraps up around the five-hour mark. That may not seem terribly short by modern-shooter campaign standards, but what makes it worse is not that you are left wanting more; it's that you are left expecting more. By spending a lot of time on quality exposition in the early going, Homefront's campaign sets itself up for a longer story arc, but it doesn't deliver. It's an unpleasant surprise when things wrap up so abruptly, but it is still a very memorable campaign."

Thought that I'd just use that review. Anyway my thoughts.. This video game is f@#%ing nuts. A time where it becomes your civic duty to fight off your own government. Sounds an awful lot like an end of the world scenario to me. Campaign looks great as does the multi-player.

YouTube - HOMEFRONT MULTIPLAYER GAMEPLAY HD

YouTube - HOMEFRONT MULTIPLAYER GAMEPLAY HD

Amazing graphics, and game play. In my opinion it looks a lot like a better version of Battlefield. Definitely not the most original game, but still very amazing indeed. I'd say that's it's worth a 9/10 rating.

[Galoku]

Hahaha that looks like a fun game! ima go hunt down for it at the shops since Steam just told me its currently unavailable in my region >.<

[Kyatto]

Friends bought it on steam. the Multiplayer is fun, but the singleplayer seems to lack some stuff. One of the facts is that the game can be finished in 4 hours. My friends all played around 6 hours.
I always wait for the cat to come out of the tree instead of calling the fire department to help me.

I'll wait a little longer. Got a LAN-party this weekend and 4 out of 8 have bought the game. will check it then before i deceide to buy the game.

[zak13317]

Yeah I heard the same thing. I would definitely rent, or watch it being played out before I decided to buy it if I were you. The game's multiplayer looked really good and the campaign sounded promising, but if it's beatable in such a short time frame I'd definitely consider playing it before buying it.

[Big Boss]

I was pretty disappointed with this game. PLayed it with a guy I work with at his house and it is definitely not the so called "Replacement for Call of Duty" Single player was ok, very short and not as intriguing as CoD MW, MW2, or Black Ops, and the multiplayer, at least for me, was not as great as it was hyped up to be. Felt like a water down version of CoD. They may as well have just called it, Call of Duty: The Watered Down Not Nearly As Awesome Version.

[zak13317]

Haha that's pretty cold.

[Big Boss]

I calls em like I sees em.

[zak13317]

Like the best part about this game is that you can use the disc as a frisbee.

[Deadpool]

Lol harsh. But idk if it is a bother for me anyways. I am quite happy with COD Black Ops.
I would rent this one just to go get a taste of it.

[Big Boss]

Black Ops rules.