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Homefront Singleplayer Review (PC)

Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido), 14 days ago
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Another thing about the multiplayer, you can login into an empty server and start playing and capturing control points and gain levels, meaning you can unlock gear and skills without ever having to face an actual opponent. There are so many completely empty servers right now that it wouldn’t be hard to go and sit through a couple empty games and level up then go into a game with other players and start with a lot of gear that others might not yet have achieved. It certainly wouldn’t be any fun but I am sure there are some who would go do that.

Overall, considering all of the hype surrounding Homefront, it just isn’t all I hoped it would be. The ridiculously short single player almost makes it feel like they aimed the game at multiplayer more so. But with such a rich storyline, rushing you through it and putting you on rails really seemed like a crime. While the game looks and sounds good and the gameplay is quite good, it just wasn’t satisfying. If they bring out DLC for single player, like a battle for San Francisco, it should be given away free because they have robbed gamers who purchased the homefront title for the single player campaign experience. In the end, I felt like an emotionally-distanced, jilted lover.

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The GDN Homefront Multiplayer Review (PC)

 Our Rating for Homefront Singleplayer Review (PC)
7.0
Replay
I might go get some achievements and play some multiplayer, but I won’t go play through the whole 4-hour campaign again.
9.0
Graphics
Some of the textures seem overdone and yet remain flat looking. Other than that there’s a lot of good graphics and environments in the game.
9.0
Sound
A great soundtrack (see my review of that separately) which is further enhanced by great weapons sounds, explosion and some decent voice work although dialog is flat at times.
5.0
Gameplay
FOUR hours of single player? That is highway robbery and THQ and Kaos Studios should be ashamed of themselves. That is disgusting. The actual gameplay is fine but I left me completely unsatisfied.
7.5
Multiplayer/Online Content
Lots of missions and maps. It almost feels like this was the main focus of the game when it should have been the single player campaign.
6.5
Overall
I know the overall score doesn’t add up to an average on all the other facets, but because of the cheap, on-rails, four hour single player campaign I am completely dissatisfied with Homefront and if you are looking for a strong single player game, this is certainly not it right now. They should offer up some free DLC to expand the single player or else they are just stealing money from gamers. If this had been 7-9 hours of single player, it might have gotten a Silver. 10 hours would have been a gold award.

Rating: 1.8, votes: 5
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