Homefront - Red Dawn inspired FPS

[Trouble]

The game seems to basically be a playable Red Dawn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn). Writer/Director of Red Dawn John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Conan the Barbarian, bunch of other stuff), is doing the writing for the game.

The basic premise is near future occupied US where you play as a freedom fighter. Red Dawn took place primarily in rural/suburban areas and it looks like the game follows pretty closely to that. Imagine high school football fields being converted into makeshift prisons, etc. and acting as a freedom fighter. Not much about the gameplay itself seems to have made it out yet, but it seems like a big part of the draw will be the story.


Homepage - http://www.homefront-game.com
Theatrical Trailer (No Gameplay) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6NiAGu4_8s
Dev Blog #1 - Backstory Development - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yATBDGzGGr8

[NiX]

So far it looks good. Hoping it delivers.

[CmdrSlack]

Yep. Do want if this is done right.

I also liked that high school sports field shot where it said, "Go Wolverines" on the side of the field house.

[Trouble]

Yep. Do want if this is done right.

I also liked that high school sports field shot where it said, "Go Wolverines" on the side of the field house.

Haha yeah I noticed that too. I hate to say it but i have high hopes for the story at least.

[Surlyboi]

Yeah but... Korea?

[Modern Angel]

Yeah but... Korea?

Midwestern fever dream made real through the magic of John Milius.

[CmdrSlack]

I liked how they justified choosing Korea as the big bad guy. "The only thing that Americans know about NK is KJI, so they make a great boogeyman."

[NiX]

Yeah but... Korea?

Fiction.

[NiX]

Split and denned the politics crap. If you posted it in politics, keep it in politics.

[ffc]

Release is tomorrow so it's time to dust off this thread.

Early reports are the multiplayer is a combo of CODish shooting with BFish vehicles. The latter has me interested. A bonus is you spawn your own vehicle based on points you accumulate in a match so you skip vehicle campers. You can also spawn in the secondary seat of another player's vehicle.

The single player campaign is 5ish hours or 8ish hours depending on who is talking, and the developer claims inspiration from Half-Life with player story impressions ranging from engaging to cheesy.

PC preorders from OnLive get Metro 2033 and the OnLive console, PS3 players get game freezes, no idea about Xbox.

Multiplayer clip
Campaign clip

[Nightblade]

This actually doesnt look half bad so far...

[ffc]

Decent video review to get an idea of the game but the 9/10 score should be taken along with knowledge the reviewer was given an exclusive series of promo clips in the days preceding release. Maybe he's on the 8-10 scale.

[Der Helm]

SO tempted to pull the trigger on this.

[Nightblade]

I was going to impulse buy, but then they pulled the preorder bonuses. Waiting for reviews.

[ffc]

Console underlings get $15 towards future video games at Amazon if it makes buying more palatable. And thus concludes my Homefront spam until my joyous or raged PS3 impressions.

[Azazel]

Decent video review to get an idea of the game but the 9/10 score should be taken along with knowledge the reviewer was given an exclusive series of promo clips in the days preceding release. Maybe he's on the 8-10 scale.

This video contains content from IMG Media UK, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that

Interesting.. for a review.

[tgr]

I'm torn. The SP looks ... average or below (the fact they're filming from a console doesn't help), the guns sound satisfyingly meaty, and MP might not be too bad.

If the LAN party I frequent decide to use this instead of CSS(eww)/MW1/BC2 in their tournaments, then I suppose I'll buy it for the MP part, but apart from that I think I'll give this a pass.

[NiX]

Rage! I forgot to setup STEAM to download this before heading to work. Le sigh.

I'll give some impressions later of the SP and MP.

[Stormwaltz]

I forgot this was coming out so soon.

I still like the Kaos guys. I'll pick it up tonight, assuming I leave work before nine.

[WindupAtheist]

God what terrible marketing.

"Evil empire of China takes over America! Murder the yellow savages in our hot new game! Wait, the Chinese market is HOW big? Uh, like we said, the evil empire of... shit who doesn't buy any games? North Korea? Haha but yeah, come on. Really? If you say so. Ahem, North Korea... um... takes over America with it's starving soldiers and fifty year old tanks. Somehow. Anyway buy our game please."

Seriously this is like a game about the United States being conquered by Cuba or some shit.

[Teleku]

We already had that conversation in this thread WUA, but it got split and denned because its "politics".   

From what I can see, the last level consists of a battle on the Golden Gate bridge, not San Fransisco itself.  So boo to this game.

[tgr]

Hey, at least they're going down a different path instead of just being all "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh USA FUCK YEAH *stomp some random little country in the middle east*".

It makes little sense, but you gotta give them + for trying. :P

[NiX]

Ugh, seriously? Makes little sense? It's fiction. You mean the MW2 plot was believable, but not this? Especially when they've explained the situation in much more detail than "North Korea floats across Pacific and conquers all of America! GREAT SUCCESS!"

[Sky]

Hey, that would be cool. If NK somehow attached rockets underneath and was able to lift off and be a giant flying island of world terror, with the mad Kim Jong Il from Team America.

[tgr]

If I were to ever comment on MW2's plotline, then I would have to say that yes, it was more believable than korea invading and actually threatening USA.

It was an off-the-cuffs remark on the plotline. I don't see what the big deal is.

[Mrbloodworth]

What the HELL do you people have against Patrick swayze?


 

[01101010]

What the HELL do you people have against Patrick swayze?


 

He sold out after The Outsiders. 

[Merusk]

Hey, that would be cool. If NK somehow attached rockets underneath and was able to lift off and be a giant flying island of world terror, with the mad Kim Jong Il from Team America.

I'd play that game!

This one? No, probably not.

[Azazel]

I like Kaos. Well, it'd be more correct to say that I kind of like Kaos. Well, I loved Desert Combat, though Frontline was a total unpatched abortion that lacked a PC demo for an obvious reason. Honestly though, with Bad Company 2 now and BF3 coming out later this year, I can't see any excitement in the MP aspects. If the SP is supposed to be good, I'll pick it up and play through it once it hits Bargain Bin status...

[Sky]

Hey, that would be cool. If NK somehow attached rockets underneath and was able to lift off and be a giant flying island of world terror, with the mad Kim Jong Il from Team America.

I'd play that game!

Who said anything about a game?

 

[tgr]

If the SP is supposed to be good, I'll pick it up and play through it once it hits Bargain Bin status...

From what I've seen, I wouldn't hold my breath.

[UnSub]

If the SP is supposed to be good, I'll pick it up and play through it once it hits Bargain Bin status...

Reportedly it is pretty average, and something like 5 - 8 hours long.

[Stormwaltz]

Mngh. Do you know if there's an option to play the multiplayer maps with bots, like Ye Olde BF 1942? I don't enjoy being the slab of beef at everyone else's buffet, so I've learned to enjoy playing amongst bots.

[Lounge]

Down to $40 on console 1 day after release... Not good.

[Rasix]

The reviews and bits of trailer make me not want to buy it.

This game just looks like a generic military FPS smothered in a setting that's depressing and disturbing.  I'm not really in the market for that right now in my leisure time.  Gamespot review showed parts of the initial Half Life style drive intro.  There's a scene where a mother and father get executed in front of their 4-5 year old son.  That made me a little too uncomfortable.