Homefront sales top 1 million
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Just kind of got a meh feeling about it, the single player, which was where the game was marketed the hardest and the devs kept talking about was stale and flat, little more then the by the books FPS campaign that we've been getting for the past 5 yrs. The 'emotional impact' they kept talking bout was badly handled and could be seen coming a mile away and more often then not seemed simply to come from them trying to make the N.K.s seem as cartoonishly evil as possible.
The multiplayer, from what little I got to play as the servers kept crashing and were down for the majority of the time I had my hands on the game, brought nothing new to the table then the BP system, which I will give them credit for as I rather liked that part, but the guns and gunplay were out done by other recent shooters and the vehicles weren't on par with those from the BF series. The maps had that feel of not being shrunk to accomdate fewer players, seeing as the PC version could have 64 player battles where the consoles could only have 32, and hence seemed to large and at times the fights too spread out and random.
All in all, the single player, which the game was being promoted heavily on, was sub-standard at best, and the multiplayer, where they probably would have benefited a great deal by spending more time on, seems bland, equating, at least in my opinion, another sub-standard FPS.
PS: That whole battlecode thing is bloody bollocks, getting to level 5 in multiplayer doesn't give you enough of a feel for the whole shebang.
The multiplayer, from what little I got to play as the servers kept crashing and were down for the majority of the time I had my hands on the game, brought nothing new to the table then the BP system, which I will give them credit for as I rather liked that part, but the guns and gunplay were out done by other recent shooters and the vehicles weren't on par with those from the BF series. The maps had that feel of not being shrunk to accomdate fewer players, seeing as the PC version could have 64 player battles where the consoles could only have 32, and hence seemed to large and at times the fights too spread out and random.
All in all, the single player, which the game was being promoted heavily on, was sub-standard at best, and the multiplayer, where they probably would have benefited a great deal by spending more time on, seems bland, equating, at least in my opinion, another sub-standard FPS.
PS: That whole battlecode thing is bloody bollocks, getting to level 5 in multiplayer doesn't give you enough of a feel for the whole shebang.
The campaign is absurdly short and the ending feels cut-offish, but the multiplayer is fun.MiracleOfSound said:
The killstreak system is very interesting, actually. You build up points instead of needing streaks, so the game really promotes aggressiveness, and allows the players who die a lot to have a chance at getting the rewards.
As the other guy said, and as you've probably heard, the campaign is extremely short. It took me about 3 hours. Multiplayer is pretty fun, and that is coming from someone who doesn't care much for multiplayer. I will warn you, though, it has gotten a lot of complaints for being "too hard" because it is like hardcore mode on Call of Duty. So, you don't have to unload a clip into someone to kill them, they die after a few bullets like they should.MiracleOfSound said:
Cut-offish? Cut-offish??? The story just ends. There's no explanation, epilogue, nothing. It just ends.Radeonx said:
Anyway, we should take this with a grain of salt. I mean, Jaws Unleashed sold pretty well too.
*face desk*Entreri481 said:
Yes, if you bought it because you like shooters or you liked the idea of the multiplayer there's nothing wrong with that.
I just get disgusted when games like this don't sell because they're good, but because the publisher spend millions marketing it, because popularity doesn't equal a great game.
It's a shame because there are 80+ rated games that don't sell close to 1 million simply because they're not marketed enough/well and this just encourages publishers and developers to keep developing linear campaigns with a tone about as consistent as a schizophrenic.
I'm not saying it's not worth buying, but that marketing artificially inflated sales above what they deserved to be at, from all that I have heard and seen about the game, which is that it has a campaign that it completely linear and not very good and a multiplayer that is quite decent.
Anyway, I feel I should stop before people get the wrong idea and the banhammer really comes down hard.
I enjoyed it, to be honest. The single player campaign wasn't brilliant, but it was easily as good as MW2's campaign - though whether you consider that an insult or a compliment is entirely subjective. As for the multiplayer, it's really good. It's not particularly different from its competitors, it just feels far more refined, balanced, and more accessible. I hear people are having technical issues with it, which is a shame, but I haven't encountered any myself.
Of course, an all 'round score of "pretty good" doesn't really cut the mustard now that Crysis 2 - a genuinely fantastic game - is on store shelves.
Of course, an all 'round score of "pretty good" doesn't really cut the mustard now that Crysis 2 - a genuinely fantastic game - is on store shelves.