Homefront Review

Jeremy · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:30 pm�� Post subject: Homefront Review

Homefront Review by Jeremy

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Karai Pantsu · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:43 pm�� Post subject:

Crysis 2 looks to 'eat out my wallet', eh?

Was that intentional, or just some kind of freudian slip?

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Jeremy · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:57 pm�� Post subject:

I'm pure, innocent and naive... so I have no idea what you're talking about

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RichieT23 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:37 pm�� Post subject:

I have been very disappointed with the outcome of Homefront.
I was quite looking forward to playing it, but from everything I've read I just can't justify a full price purchase.
I may pick it up in a month or so if it drops to $40 on ozgameshop, play it and then trade it in.

el_supraman · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:37 pm�� Post subject:

multiplayer is very fun and well worth the money imo
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Kimberley Ellis · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:00 pm�� Post subject:

Smashed through this in an afternoon over the weekend and I somewhat enjoyed it. Biggest letdown had to be the way the story actually played out, I never felt that it had captured the scale of the story at large - and as the review stated, the ending leaves much to be desired.

Multiplayer is fun enough, though the map design is quite bland and ill balanced. Many servers I played on were full of snipers who would camp to build up enough points to unlock the use of the attack chopper and then consistently rocket spam the battlefield. One plus I found was that unlocks in this game happen a lot quicker than they do in some of the other shooters out there so you feel like you're accomplishing something a hell of a lot quicker than you would in comparison to CoD.
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sobriquet835 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:17 pm�� Post subject:

I'm not really interested in the multiplayer aspects of this title, personally. I think I might rent it to play through the story. It looks really interesting.

Slipvayne21 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:20 pm�� Post subject:

Sin Ogaris · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:28 pm�� Post subject:

5 hours is about the same as every other FPS title in recent years, Hell even some in not so recent years.

themashedavenger · Status: Offline Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 86 $poons: 2.40

i like short campaigns, it means i actually see the end and remember the story as a whole...

anyway, kimberley is spot on, its kinda detached from the actual "war" and its more like an occupation/survival game until the end...

... but yer definite rental material

el_supraman · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:29 pm�� Post subject:

vanquish was quite short without multiplayer. Same with other games like prince of persia and they rated a lot higher than this and were never blasted as much as this game even though its obvious they put a lot of effort into the multiplayer. If you only want to play single player than rent it and finish it in a day or two, but if the multiplayer looks interesting thats when buying is a consideration. I also believed game was filled with snipers etc but you learn your way around it. Also ground control with battle commander works very well and other than angel island snipers are not as bad as in team death match
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Ken_Gooner · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:39 pm�� Post subject:

Seriously, why make fps games so short?
Is it something to do with the development time or something?
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Azza · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:59 pm�� Post subject:

I enjoyed the single player well enough, but the multiplayer was seriously lacking polish; snipers are hideously overpowered, most of the maps seem as if they were ripped from the bottom of the Halo 3 Forge barrel and...it's just empty. I had serious problems finding a server with more than 5 players on it at one time.

Oh, well. At least I have my hat.
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Frozencry · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:56 am�� Post subject:

MAXp0wr · Status: Offline Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 41 $poons: 0.60

I had a go at SP and for while I was in stitches laughing at how bad this game is. The intro is hilarious!
You would hope the MP is 1000 times better because after the funny wears off the SP is just crap.
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light487 · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:20 am�� Post subject:

Played this over the weekend.. less than 4 hours was the time it took to go through the entire single player campaign. With all the hype, I was hoping for a lot more than that. I don't buy these games for the multiplayer, it wasn't really touted as a multiplayer game.

While the production quality of the single player campaign was good, it was no better than some of the Valve Software stuff that's come out over the years. It was great gameplay and I enjoyed it immensely.. then it just ended... just as it was getting really good.

If you disregard the 4 hour playtime, it definitely deserves a 7/10 but the fact that you getting the "THE END" screen just as you start to really enjoy the game has to knock off a point or two for me.. I wouldn't waste money on this game.
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tbenton · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:36 pm�� Post subject:

I'm with light487, I was really enjoying this game. It was heaps of fun and just as you are gearing up for a massive fight, the game went and did a Halo 2. I was bloody furious.

Here's hoping that the recently announced sequel by Crytek / Free Radical really takes what has been laid here and cranks it up to 11. I'm thinking Crysis without aliens in the USA would be pretty sweet.
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