Homefront reviews: Great multiplayer, mixed singleplayer
March 18th, 2011
Heard this one before? "Fun multiplayer, short singleplayer." That's the general concensus right now for Homefront, released this week on PC and consoles.
Although certainly not a "bad" review, it's a bit of a dissapointment for a game that garnered a lot of hype upon announcement for being a different kind of shooter. The premise: North Korea has invaded and occupied the USA in the not too distant future. The resistance is up to you.
Unfortunatly, that resistance feels short and ends uprubtly, according to many reviewers. "Average" seems to be a popular used adjective when describing the single player. What's more, the game is purportedly a bit buggy, like so many other newly released games these days.
Not everyone is down on the single player, however. Ripten, in calling the game "bad ass," says Homefront has "one of the best, most engaging stories ever seen in the genre" and "features you would actually expect a PC game to have."
If there's one thing most reviewers agree upon, though, it's the influenctial and engaging multiplayer. Currently there are isolated reports of server connectivity issues, obviously as THQ works to get their server workload in order. But a lot of people are praising the Battle Commander feature as a game-changer. It basically informs players as to where friendlies are taking enemy fire, and directs you on squad-based missions to counter-attack.
Still, it's obvious even the biggest critics of the game are encouraged by it, despite its imperfections. It's not a home run. But all indications are that this batter just went for a double, and is capable of going even deeper on his next at-bat.
Have you played Homefront? If so, what do you think?
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Slightly better than "Russians are bad and don't like America."
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The multiplayer is as good, if not better, than COD. The maps are huge (in this game, that is a good thing), the kill streaks are based on points. When you kill someone, you get points. Then you can use one of your two kill streaks. These include, Flying a mini chopper (that shoots missles out, can be taken down with half a clip or less of bullets), a mini drone (you can fly around and mark enemys on the map for other players to see, theys tay on map for 20 seconds), a little robot that fires a machine gun (tough little thing, remember you can kill this with a melee, IF you get close enough :) ) and many many more items. Also, if you choose not to spend it on your killstreak, when you RESPAWN, you can get a Humvee, Mini Tank, Tank, Helicopter (fires machine guns and anti-missiles, Chopper (fires missles and machine guns) and a few other vechiles.
Hope this gave you a good idea for the multiplayer. I did purchase this from ONlive, which is a great service. I run it off my ten year old laptop, runs perfect. If you have a crap computer, Onlive has some good games that can run if you have GOOD internet.
Anyways. I would give the single player a 5/10 and the multiplayer a 9/10. Well worth the money, looking forward to a better sequel:)
NOw remember, to get these Vehicles, you need to kill to get points for them
One more thing about the multiplayer. Remember in CoD when your camping and killing people with a K/D of 25-1? Thats not gonna work here. When you kill three people, you get a star. Two people are "assigend" a 60M (meter) area that says your somewhere in that area. IF ONE of them kill you, they get Bonus points. But hey, dont worry. Your not getting screwed over, you also get bonus's. The more you kill, the more STARS you get (up to five). Each star is a threat level, kinda like Grand Thefts Auto when the police is chasing you.
LIke I was saying, you dont get screwed over. As you gain each Star, you also get Bonus stats. Example, one Star might get you a constant UAV scan (its about a every ten seconds), and two stars might get you increased Defense, or increased Bullet Damage.
Forgive me if some of my numbers are off, I just wrote this to give people a General idea. It might be Two kills for one star, instead of the written Three. Idgf :) LOl just trying to give people a good review of the game, and not from some major company or fanboy :)
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the campaign is a bit shorter than mw2's but despite how it doesnt portray the whole "smooth operator" epicness, it makes up for having the gut and heart renching realities and drama of occupation. [ex. mass graves firing squads starving childeren, slave camps ETC]
though some say the graphics are mediocre, i run it on mid on my m11x with no issues and it looks just fine. overclock to crank it up and it looks great. the texture and foliage detail i must say could use some work, but the fluency of movement is actually very realistic and character detailing is precise.
as for the multiplayer, it has a lot to offer that have never been seen before. the battle point system is good for people who cant retain kill streaks as your points stay no matter how much you die. this helps people not get angry when theyre a kill away from chopper gunner or if they always go commando taking out campers.
many argue that vehicles stink in FPS as whoever is driving the tank with the big gun will win, but balance is key in this instance. it is very easy to obtain some sort of armor deterrent such as an rpg, rocket drone or EMP grenades which all work effectively. a nice tough to the vehicles is they only get destroyed once an entire plate of armor is hit three times with a rocket/2 times with rhino missles or if three damage points are struck twice. choppers can be a bit hard to use though as they are easy prey for BTRLAVs and rhino drones, so it would help to give them faster flare reloading especially with the scout's light armor.
i was slightly dissappointed with the gun and attachment selection as there are only 2 smg/lmg/sniper rifles, 5 assult rifles and 1 downloadable R870 shotgun. the attachments are mainly sights [holo MK/1-3 ACOG MK/1-3 dot/MK1-3] with the occasional suppressor or noob tube. the guns are all well balanced and tuned for the long range combat but the SMGs are really only usable on one, smaller map.
thee maps are nice and balanced thankfully and in terms of destruction are minimal with road blocks and concrete walls vulnerable to chopper and explosive ordinance.
if youre willing to try a new and easily emerging game, get it. its well worth the 50$ and one of the best pc shooters to date.
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