Homefront review

Homefront was one of the most advertised games of the year but the game does not live up to all the hype.

The single player story is set in America during the north Korean occupation and very quickly you can see how bad things are, you see family’s split up, a mother telling her child that everything will be fine before a north Korean blows her brains out. After that you will be forced to join the resistance and you set out to cause havoc with a few big set piece moments such as piloting a helo and controlling a goliath tank on several occasions. But the story end very quickly only amount 5 levels each lasting depending on difficulty 10-15 minutes.

The graphics I thought were quite good especially the blood effects but the bullet impacts feel a bit plastic but do have quite a good punch to them, the character models look good and the graphics are good.

The controls are pretty much the same to call of duty and battlefield bad company 2. The guns are nice but all the assault rifles sound the same all the snipers sound the same and all the shotguns sound the same and the explosions aren’t bad but they aren’t good either.

Some parts of the levels can be very frustrating for example a helicopter will try to destroy your goliath tank and you have to target it and destroy it, after that you fight a huge amount of enemies and if you die which is very likely you have to start from the helicopter part again, I did this about 5-6 times before I finally finished the level.

However multiplayer is very good it is a mix of call of duty and battlefield bad company 2 it has good looking weapons and a variety of vehicles, it also has a battle point system which you gain through kills and you can spend them on rocket launchers, drones and vehicles which is a very cool idea and it features 32 player battles which are magical and a complete bloodbath, although I noticed that lag was a big problem but if you play enough games you should find games with no lag. However the battle code is a ridiculous idea I don’t see the point, to play above level 5 you need to put this code in and if you bought a pre-owned version then you will probably have to buy a battle code (if anyone knows why they put the battle code system in please comment).

Overall Homefront is a bad single player game but multiplayer helps it out and my final verdict is a 5/10 if you don’t bother to play multiplayer doesn’t buy it.

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