What were they thinking?!!!
Homefront was released on March 15th and ever since playing it I have been begging the question: Where the fuck did good shooters go?
Apart from an abysmally bland campaign consisting of a depressingly ugly array of characters and weapons, the multiplayer failed harder than any other game I've seen. It seems like games these days are simply concerned about who can blow up enough shit to get the player's attention, and that is YOUR fault, you demented, slow, retarded, adolescent, morons who keep throwing money into a genre that is about as much fun as sticking all your week's pay check in a fucking blender. The gamers as well as the games are getting dumber by the minute, oh hell getting fucking retarded by the second sounds better.
There's a lot of things I wanted to like Homefront for, such as the setting. Being set in war torn and now occupied America, the game had promise, it even had a semi decent story going for it, until it became just rediculous. The characters are boring, stupid, and have absolutely no personality while your character is a silent fucktard who can't summon up the courage to even say: Oh shit this is a terrible game.
The gameplay of Homefront is truely it's core flaw. The controls are smooth surprisingly, though the weapons handle like shit, most of them have next to no kick and they sound like they're being fired in the padded cell where the developers escaped from. The levels are a mess of chest high walls and muddled disgusting textures, environment should have been the awe inspiring thing here, but it sadly wasnt. While the scenes try to be gritty (Even at one point making you hide in a 'mass grave' (Which wasn't all that massive anyway), it failed to immerse me at every turn. The musical score is literally nauseating, spewing what THQ must have though was depressing and powerful tones, but in the end was just fucking boring like everything else. Nothing about the campaign is noteworthy other than the annoying glitches and horrible voice overs.
The multiplayer was supposedly this game's redeeming point, but I fail to see how in the holy name of fuck it was any good, it was generic, shitty combat that even call of duty could have done better than (And they're almost as fucking bad at it).
So in the end, Homefront fails on all fronts and deserves nothing less than to be left in the 5$ bin at your local Wal-Mart for cold-war fantasists to masturbate to in their off time, or fuck it, check your local trash bin, because that's where my copy went.
