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By the year 2027, the North Koreans have managed to unify Korea, annex Japan, and also invade the western half of the United States. As an American rebel fighter, it is the player's duty to help push the NPA out of the United States and end the citizens' suffering.
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"A solidly crafted multiplayer component is the only thing that redeems Homefront's brief, nearly tensionless campaign."
5 ★ (1)
4 ★ (3)
3 ★ (18)
2 ★ (16)
1 ★ (3)

The worst of the imitators.

The Short Pros - Decent enough shooter...that is, it never really broke - Premise is interesting - Multiplayer is stable and has a few unique ideas - Graphics aren't...awful - Explosive barrels are ye… Read more

Red Dawn Lite

Homefront is one of those games that tries to reach the a certain height, but in the end it only seems to have reached about half way up what they were aiming for and promised, which makes this game f… Read more

Homefront Review: Home is where the trash is

Homefront has an intriguing concept, the USA has been occupied by a powerful foreign aggressor and you are a member of a resistance movement fighting for liberation. Homefront presents a scenario were… Read more

Solid, but short game

From playing Homefront I find myself thinking about how much more interesting it could have been. I actually enjoyed the campaign quite a bit (even despite its short length), but somehow having what I… Read more

Homefront Review (SP)

Homefront (SP) How the war was won in record time Xbox 360 Played to completion on easy difficulty The world has spun out of control. The US is now under the control of the Unified Korean nation. Take… Read more

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Mediocre

Too short campaign, uneven graphical quality, atrocious A/I and random difficulty spikes mar a decent premise. The controls are fine and the game includes the requisite turret, helicopter, etc. levels… Read more

Red Dawn deserved a better spiritual successor than this

First of all, let's talk about the great big elephant in the room. Homefront's story is about North Korea somehow reuniting with South Korea, then taking over Japan and large portions of Southeast Asi… Read more

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 depressingl… Read more

War hits the Homefront

Imagine waking up one to find that your countries defenses are down and that former enemies unify in order take over your home and push it's Agenda. Sure there would be resistance, but how could you f… Read more

Homefront Review

After taking about 5 hours to finish the Homefront campaign, I feel like there was so much more story that could have been told but Kaos studio just did not have the time to create enough game to expl… Read more

Home is where the online isn't

Homefront is a game that looked so promising. In some ways it is, but in more way than one, it isn't. You see, it's a good game and would be accepted as one, if the stakes were low. Shame they were hi… Read more

Homefront, far from a homerun

Homefront sets up a cool story but falls short with it's delivery .When i look at it i think “Oh cool red dawn the video game” but soon after starting the game i was filled with great disappointment.… Read more

Lowered Expectations

I don't normally purchase games day one, nevermind at full price. However, I've had my eye on Homefront since I first heard about it - I've really wanted a game to explore the possibility of an invasi… Read more

Great multi-player, poor single-player

Do you like Battlefield 2? Do you like Modern Warfare? Well then, Homefront might be the game for you. KAOS Studios has managed to user their past experience of working on Desert Combat and Frontlines… Read more

Onlive Version: Meh, with a side of Frustration

I have Homefront for the Onlive service and have been playing it with my micro-console on my TV. I will approach this review from the Onlive perspective as well as from the overall gameplay perspectiv… Read more

Will Homefront Make You Yell "Wolverines"? Probably Not.

When the most memorable thing about your game is the free tacos you were handing out to people on the streets of San Francisco, clearly something has gone wrong. Not only has developer Kaos Studios mi… Read more

Good fiction takes a backseat to generic action

The American economy has fallen, most of Asia has joined forces with North Korea under threat of total annihilation, and food in the U.S. is scarce. In 2027, a fragile America is nothing other than a… Read more

Homefront Review

Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Genre: First Person Shooter Release Date: March 15th~18th 2011 Developer: Kaos Studios Publisher: THQ Homefront is a first person shooter developed by Kaos studio… Read more

Homefront Review: Home is where the trash is

Homefront has an intriguing concept, the USA has been occupied by a powerful foreign aggressor and you are a member of a resistance movement fighting for liberation. Homefront presents a scenario were… Read more

Pros and Cons: Homefront (Single Player)

John Milius, the Oscar-nominated writer behind Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn , has stepped into the gaming world and has given us Homefront . Shortly after the death of North Korean Kim Jung-il in 2012,… Read more

XBOX 360 Review: Homefront

First person shooters are a dime a dozen in the game industry so every new game in the genre needs to have a hook to capture the interest of its prospective audience. Developer Kaos Studios set out to… Read more

Home is Where the Disappointment Is

Introduction Despite the release date review embargo, i really had high hopes for Homefront. A strong, story driven campaign was promised, which is something that is not seen very often in first perso… Read more

Homefront Review

Game: Homefront Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and [b]PC ( Reviewed )[/b] MRSP: 59.99 ( Console ) 49.99 ( PC ) Developed By: Kaos Studios Homefront puts you in the shoes of a member of the resista… Read more

My Homefront Review

Seeing as this is my first (hopefully, of many) review, I'll explain a little bit of how I intend to approach the games and how I'll score them out. My plan is to break down each game in to categories… Read more

A game set in the future that's stuck in the past

If you browse the wiki page for Homefront's basic premise, it's kind of hard not to get very intrigued and get a desire to find out more. A convincing and eerily plausible scenario, a Hollywood writer… Read more

Futility

You know, it is hard to know when to admit defeat in things. All the time I feel subjected to great scrutiny in all I do, and no matter how hard I try I often feel I am being held back, oppressed and… Read more

Homefront: The art of hyperbole

Homefront is an example of a beautiful deception that has become a practice standard within the video game industry through the art of hyperbole. Turning nothing into something is an interesting use o… Read more

First impressions - Homefront

Homefront is not your typical war FPS. Instead of taking place in some desert country with Taliban like enemies, the war takes place on US soil. North Korea expanded outside it's borders after the dea… Read more

Can't Go Home

When it comes to shooters, I'd consider myself to be pretty jaded. With the market as saturated as it is, a game really has to work to stand out in my eyes. Consider it a testament to the strength of… Read more

Home Is Not Where the Heart Is

Homefront is the next big shooter for next generation systems and the PC. Brought to you from the writer of Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now, this shooter feels second rate in comparison most shooters in r… Read more

Never surrender: A Homefront Review

For me, it's hard to think of or play Homefront without conjuring up memories of playing Freedom Fighters, the squad-based third person shooter released in 2003 by io and published by EA. The game did… Read more

A Worthy Successor to Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

Homefront is what you would call a train wreck. A disaster that is hard to understand when everything looked so promising. Who didn't instantly think of Freedom Fighters when first seeing this, who di… Read more

Look, it's a Red Dawn video game! And just as bad as the movie!

While the title is meant semi-jokingly, anyone who has actually watched Red Dawn will agree that it is not exactly one of the greatest movies ever made. Hell, it has Patrick Swayze in it. In this same… Read more

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