Homefront Reviews - Average so far... 72%

[Sephychu]

Wow, that IGN review is total and utter crap.
I didn't watch it for more than 24 seconds, because in that time I saw a knife animation identical to the call of duty ones, little hit indicators forming a cross around the target he just shot, and the speaker saying that what Homefront does to stand out is 'tell a unique story in a frightening environment'.

Come again?

This book has come out already. It's called Red Dawn, and it was written by a man working on the damned game. How can the reviewer possibly say it's unique? Media has done enemy on friendly soil forever. This is silly.

Plus, what everyone is saying about it being cookie-cutter FPS is looking pretty true from what I've seen.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

BO certainly invoked anger in me. Mainly because it was such a piss poor lazy excuse for a game. The single player deteriorates after the third mission and the multiplayer is pathetic. Hopefully the invlusive nature of the multiplayer here will be better, though a game that relies on teamwork is going to fail spectacularly on XBL. That's BC2's biggest problem.

Opinions.

They're great, you know.

Don't mind me having one.

I'll go play some Black Ops. On XBL.

 

[Bags159]

The game scales horribly. I don't have the best PC but I can run Crysis on medium / high ~40 fps. I've got EVERYTHING on the absolute lowest setting and at times I'm dropping below 30, though most of the time it is ~60 fps.

 

[DVS Storm]

It is a COD clone. Why does every game want to be like COD(well obvious answer but still)?

Oh yeah... I forgot, game that has gun and is modern is a COD clone...

Well I read an interview from somewhere and in the article some developer said they were trying to get a COD feel into it. And what I've heard about the campaign is that it is a streamlined shooter with some general shouting "Don't stop" to your ear.

I'm not a huge COD fan anymore. It just seems that Homefront is COD-like game. Nothing wrong with that if they add something new but it just seems they haven't. I could be wrong though.

 

[Captain Pirate]

That video did not leave me with a good first impression. I thought it was doing a pretty good job building atmosphere, I was genuinely impressed. Until the parent shooting incident happened. That scene just seemed completely ridiculous, relegating the Koreans to comic book villain status. All they needed to do was have you hear the child screaming, that would have been enough, and it's far more subtle.

Another big mistake they made was to have all the Korean soldiers masked. They don't seem human anymore, so it's just become America versus the giant evil empire. As usual.

I haven't played the game, but that left a really poor first impression, just looked like a really hamfisted attempt at creating emotion. Without that emotion they've been hyping so hard, there's nothing really seperating it from the myriad of other shooters. It may be that it gets absolutely amazing later on, but a first impression is incredibly important, and that one failed.

This, down to a tee.
I haven't seen the video, as I'm just not interested, but it's this whole thing about the Koreans not being human soldiers, but being masked villains to an almost comical level.

They're just modern Stormtroopers to me.

 

[Bags159]

The only emotional experience I've had so far is

Spoiler

killing Goliath. It was like killing the Companion Cube in Portal.

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Although I really liked the helicopter tanker escort mission.
"Connor this isn't a demolition derby!"
*Connor's truck is seen pushing 2 - 3 cars*
"I don't stop for shit! These are good, strong trucks!"

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"Jaccobs... that's like the fifth thing you've fallen off of and lived"

Really short(4 hours) story on normal . Guess I'll have to play it again sometime on a harder difficulty.

 

[Korten12]

Necroing because I'd like to see the thread title updated to between 74% and 77%, lol. Hate to quote myself here, but:

Every time I see this thread, the title is edited so that the average review score is a little lower each time. Seems we're getting past all the paid-for reviews, and eventually it will drop down to 85%, average at best for your standard cookie-cutter FPS.

Looks like I over-shot that by a decent amount.

http://www.gamerankings.com/xbox360/960374-homefront/index.html

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/homefront

I didn't bother to edit it becuase their is too many reviews to add. But jezz can you just let off? Seriously, you're typical escapist response example number 1. Finest example of someone not being able to just let a game exist, and having to hate on it.

 

[purf]

Yup, bargain bin, if at all.

I only kept half an eye on this game, but still... from what I can judge by gameplay videos: an exact copy of all the gameplay mechanisms of all those MWs and CoDs (I mean, look at it. and listen to it!) packed in a somethingstory featuring retro Combine from Korea is more than dissapointing.

 

[Korten12]

Necroing because I'd like to see the thread title updated to between 74% and 77%, lol. Hate to quote myself here, but:

Every time I see this thread, the title is edited so that the average review score is a little lower each time. Seems we're getting past all the paid-for reviews, and eventually it will drop down to 85%, average at best for your standard cookie-cutter FPS.

Looks like I over-shot that by a decent amount.

http://www.gamerankings.com/xbox360/960374-homefront/index.html

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/homefront

I didn't bother to edit it becuase their is too many reviews to add. But jezz can you just let off? Seriously, you're typical escapist response example number 1. Finest example of someone not being able to just let a game exist, and having to hate on it.

If I could determine whether or not this game was allowed to exist, it wouldn't. There's always somebody who will expect a game like Homefront to be a lot better than it actually is, but I'm not that guy.

You could at least edit the title to the appropriate value so as to not mislead people on its quality, yes?

You honestly think review scores truly show off quality? Uh, I loved MW2, but I know many didn't. That has a 94%.

 

[Yarpie]

You honestly think review scores truly show off quality? Uh, I loved MW2, but I know many didn't. That has a 94%.

If you don't think that review scores are indications of quality, I have to ask why you made this topic in the first place? Not trying to be an ass here, I'm just curious.

 

[Korten12]

You honestly think review scores truly show off quality? Uh, I loved MW2, but I know many didn't. That has a 94%.

If you don't think that review scores are indications of quality, I have to ask why you made this topic in the first place? Not trying to be an ass here, I'm just curious.

Becuase, I will bet 90% of ppl, buy games based off of review scores alone. I can't show too much examples except to say that if you look at sites like IGN/Dtoid, lots only buy games they say are good, rather then their own opinion.

So this topic was more intended for them, then myself. Since I already decided to get the game when it goes on sale for either PS3/PC. (would maybe get it sooner, but my next game is Socom 4, the $150 full deployment edition, since I really want to try it, and other games out with the move, so with 150, I won't have enough money atm for Homefront.)

 

[Bags159]

I find it funny that this game is getting reviews in the 70's when MW got reviews in the 90's.

Neither have terribly moving stories, great gameplay, a long SP, or great MP. Yet MW gets a free pass simply because it was the first to be bland?

 

[Mister Six]

I find it funny that this game is getting reviews in the 70's when MW got reviews in the 90's.

Neither have terribly moving stories, great gameplay, a long SP, or great MP. Yet MW gets a free pass simply because it was the first to be bland?

Part of it was from coming in front of this current wave, the others being that it had such a large fan base, which included many people who didn't own/play any other games, to draw from, and if you're into that whole marketing/reviewer corruption bit, they got paid off big time.

Off Topic: Is there any chance of the Escapist getting rid of Captcha? This is getting ridiculous, four times in a row its used words that aren't even words, just random bunches of letters with accents.

 

[nipsen]

You'd be surprised by how many people consider parts of the CoD games emotional. Amazing what a moustache, some walking clichés and some slow-mo will do.

Depends on what you mean by "emotional" in this particular scenario.

Nobody cries over Modern Warfare 2. Nobody sobs over Black Ops. However, both of them do invoke emotions - anger, excitement, more excitement, you know?

..this one is more for liberal sissies, though. You know... fellowship, purpose, righteousness, doubt.