Homefront: The Revolution Reviews
Homefront: The Revolution ends up a more fitting sequel than I think anyone could've predicted. Like its predecessor, this is a kludged-together mish-mash of trendy design ideas from other, better games, glued to a story that punches far above its weight and aspires to something much greater.
While Homefront: The Revolution had potential to be great, its mediocre gameplay, lackluster story and myriad of technical issues make it one of the biggest disappointments of the generation.
An interesting change of pace for a first person shooter that has some nice ideas and mechanics, but can't quite get everything to sing.
Despite some of its shortcomings, Homefront: The Revolution is a solid open-world FPS. It gets a lot right and if you're in the mood for liberating future America, it might just be your jam.
Though its world has some great aesthetic devices and a cool concept, ultimately all of Homefront: The Revolution's elements feel repetitive, unpolished, or downright unnecessary. Over the length of its campaign it fails to deliver a satisfying - or even fully functional - shooter experience.
Homefront: The Revolution is a disappointment no matter how you slice it. Maybe Deep Silver Dambuster can improve it over time and when that happens, the game could be worth a purchase in a sale; as it is, though, it simply cannot be recommended with many better options available for gamers.
The co-op action can be fun, but the rest of the game is just as dull and miserable as life in occupied America is portrayed.
After capturing our attention with a strong concept and an intriguing open world, Homefront: The Revolution struggles with the basics: weapons feel unsatisfying to use, side quests are repetitive, characters are under-developed, and the online multiplayer represents a step back for the series. Sadly, for all of its ambition, there's just not much here worth fighting for.
A valiant effort has been made to salvage this long troubled game from the doldrums, but despite some good ideas, solid combat, and neat concepts, Homefront: The Revolution suffers for its long gestation more than it benefits from it.
Homefront: The Revolution has plenty of potential with its unique setting and premise, but its completely let down by dated design, unengaging combat, a boring story, and performance problems to boot.
Simply put, Homefront: The Revolution is outclassed in its bracket by every other big-budget game released this generation. And that's without getting into how shockingly shit the PC version is. This game made me feel unwell, it bored me to tears, and it irritated the piss out of me.
Despite the shoddy graphics and performance, and a story that could use polish in its execution, Homefront: The Revolution has a solid foundation. It's challenging and the mission variety in a pseudo open-world game is the best I've played in a while. It kept me engaged for its 22 hours. At the end, I felt satisfied. I hope to see another one with a bigger budget behind it.
Not the disaster many had anticipated, but also fundamentally flawed.
Homefront: The Revolution is doing little more than checking off boxes
Homefront: The Revolution boasts solid gameplay and impressive level design, but tonally it's a disaster.
Homefront: The Revolution is a mediocre FPS that squanders an intriguing concept, but worst of all the game is not fun to play and overwrought with repetition.
It's got this weird bubbling heart underneath it, a clear desire to be a great game despite not being able to reach it. It's packed, varied, and so bloody enormous. It's a real muddle, and a muddle for which I've developed a real soft spot.
The gameplay gets a serious overhaul as this resistance fighter series goes open world and takes some major cues from the Far Cry franchise.
The new Homefront does not excel in any field, carrying the wounds of a troubled development. The gameplay is too rough, the AI unrefined, the campaign very short (unless you get involved in the tedious subquests). The biggest fault of The Revolution, though, is the decision to re-write the setting, trivializing the impressive work that John Milius did for the first chapter.
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Homefront: The Revolution has a distinctive personality and its share of good ideas, but overall the execution is a mess. Cool weapon customisation options are no substitute for thrilling combat, while the exploration stuff is spoilt by poor movement and controls. A storyline that already struggles for credibility isn't helped by charmless characters and cringe-worthy dialogue, and visual glitches and poor AI only make the game feel less than finished. The result? A game with big ambitions that fails to hit the mark.