Homefront (PC) Review @ GamingHeaven
I was extremely excited about this game. The backstory was awesome, the fact they hired the writer of Red Dawn to help with the storyline was the right move, but in typical game developer fashion they concentrated on the console aspects of gameplay and totally ignored what makes for a great PC game. At least from the single player aspect of the game.
The single player part of Homefront left me wanting more, A LOT more, the reason being that they spend a ton of time on the story but totally failed to deliver on that story. For instance on the Homefront website there is a map that explains what is going on in different parts of the country, Sadly you are not able to visit those parts or even have a mission there. Instead you are limited to breaking out of a town in Colorado to deliver fuel to the US Military in San Francisco. (spoiler blah) What happened to the irradiated Mississippi river?, or the mining camps? if you can't go there so why even mention it??
While I can agree with the views of GamingHeaven on this game I cannot even remotely support their rating of it
As we fired up the game we were greeted by one of the most amazing introductions to any game we've come across. The video documents the "past" 16 years up until the year in which the game is set, 2027 and it begins with various news flashes and headlines documenting the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, with the subsequent rise to power of the dictators son, Kim Jong Un. A revolutionist, the youngster manages to unite both North and South Korea, forming the Greater Korean Republic. At the same time as the rise of Korea we witness an America gripped in crisis, oil shortages have ravaged the military thanks to an on-going war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
I will still suggest that everyone play Homefront and try out the mulitplayer but buy the game because it's a different take on the FPS shooter genre and not because you are looking for something more than your standard shooter since it hardly delivers the story it promises.
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