Homefront®: The Revolution Reviews

I've always really liked this game for some reason despite its various flaws. It has a somewhat enjoyable but largely forgettable story, accompanied by a fair amount of bugs (first time I played on Xbox, the ending mission broke and didn't allow for progression). The guns are somewhat fun to use, even though the arsenal is limited since it's just a few weapons where you can buy alternate kits for (like turning the pistol into an SMG or the assault rifle into a machine gun). It's satisfying to slowly liberate districts bit by bit and have areas where allies will show up to back you up in a firefight, even if it will start to feel a little repetitive later on. There are parts where the game shows its brokenness, like when it will spawn enemy reinforcements in the middle of the street in plain view just after you managed to kill 5 or 6 guys and a couple of drones. Still, at a few bucks, I think this game is definitely worth a playthrough. That said, after playing both console versions which are locked at 30FPS, I wanted to play it again with a more smooth experience, so I got the PC version. That's where I found out that this isn't the greatest PC port. Tried it first on Rog Ally X and the framerate averaged between 33-43FPS. Pretty much same with the Steam Deck. Tweaking the settings and trying a few fixes online from back in the day did absolutely nothing to fix this. No reason a game this old should run poorly on modern hardware, even on a handheld PC. Thankfully I was able to get the full 144FPS on my 4090, so it at least seems that with enough raw power, the game will run fine. The other issue I have with this version is that it doesn't have cloud save support (while both console versions do), so upon trying this on multiple different devices, I've had to restart the game each time. You could always transfer the save file between devices, but it's annoying if you're bouncing between handheld and desktop. Last thing worth mentioning since I'm sure it's what most people who still buy this game nowadays care about, HD Timesplitters 2. Nice little bonus.

Was well and good for the first 10 hours. The setup is nonsense and the story is mid, of course, but for 3 clams I knew what I was in for. The shooting feels decent. A little spongey if anything, but alright. I really enjoyed the weapon customization, a system that I've seen carry over from other titles that use Deep Silver like Exodus. However, unlike Exodus, after the 10 hour mark the game began to inexplicably freeze every 30 or so minutes, right in the middle of objectives for missions. No amount of dinking with graphics, resetting, updates or fixes could remedy this issue. It was surprisingly upsetting, I was enjoying my time through the game. I wish I could give this a good rating, but the game has major performance issues. I would pass.

At it's core, it's not bad. Sale for 2,99? Try it, it can't hurt. Decent graphics and gunplay. But after a while it gets pretty stale, because it feels you do the same things over and over again. Liberate a part of the map, one out of three animations (wow).

This game is great and makes my american penner hard, but its not very polished but again this was made in 2016 so I can't bash it that hard, the story wasn't bad and it has a lot of play time if you tried to beat it as fast as you could it would still take at the least 5 hours and there's a co-op mode to add a few more hours but in the end great game and would start a revolution in the homefront to see a 3rd game, stay good everyone and fuck the Norks

Love this game, I can't speak for the state it was in on launch, but I just finished it now and I loved the game and all DLC. Really worth the price with the current sale, basically the same price as a cup of coffee for a one of a kind experience, there aren't many games that put you in a situation where you care about your resources, but since this game is a story of a revolution against the norks, you face the limitation of what an insurgency would face, forcing you to think smart and use terrain advantage to win. TL;DR better than wolfenstein imo story wise.

It's alright, but it’s held back by clunky mechanics and a forgettable story. Worth grabbing for a few bucks if you’re into dystopian shooters, just don’t expect a masterpiece.

amazing game honestly, i cried twice during the campaign, got it for 3 usd while it was on sale

Game was fun until it glitched on Defend against the KPA around the city section, the game didn't allow any soldier to die on the KPA side, but if i stabbed them, they would "die" in place, but still be an active blip on the screen. I tried restarting the level to experience the same glitch. Frustrating as hell. There's no way I want to replay the preceding chapter just to see if it glitches again, so I'm done.

Good graphics but it's so bland it feels like a waste of time.

Doesn't work on steam deck, just leaving for awareness. it loads the intro video about North Korea tech but after crashes. Very fun game. It uses map zones and you have to go to portal doors to load between them. first person perspective. The on the fly weapon part swapping is a neat feature. so for example the pistol when you hit the key it allows you to swap off the pistol slider for say a silencer or a machine pistol slider, also can take off or put on say a handle for the rail and swap off n on scopes, lasers, sometimes silencers or vented muzzle break. Colonial marines does this also but in the settings menu, this game does it live during gameplay, some players will find this annoying, as you can take damage limiting usage or to rush to avoid damage from enemies. my personal preference, id prefer a 3rd person camera. The 1st person camera is good, but for me i get motion sickness.