Homefront for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Homefront is a decent game but is little more than a COD knockoff with a twist. The twist is that the game takes place in the late 2020's, American society has crumbled due to economic woes and has receeded from the world as it sole super power. To takes its place steps in North Korea which essentially comes to usurp/control the majority of the world, including everything west of the Mississippi thanks to an EMP blast that plunges America back into the stone age. Your character lives in Korean occupied territory and is a Former US Airforce pilot, after a series of events you join the undeground resistance and the game begins.

Homefronts playstile is exactly like COD except its not done as well, the graphics arent particularly impressive and the game makes up for its lack of intelligent AI by throwing hordes of enemies at you. There are more weapons than you can shake a stick at in this game, basically every enemy you encounter has a diffrent gun, and to me thats a bad thing. After mopping up some 20 bad guys you hardly get any ammo because they all had diffrent caliber guns or the game makes them dissappear, besides your starting guns are usually sufficent for any task. The entire game is a form of follow the leader, you always have no less than 2 invincible friendly NPCS who guide you, give you orders and most frustratingly open all doors for you. This game is highly scripted and linear, which I see as another negative. The campaign is also extremely short, I don't think it took me more than 4-5 hours. Multiplayer dosent compare to COD so I wont even touch on it.

In the end however this is not a bad game, simply flawed. There are certainly enough eye candy moments to make the game enjoyable. Homefront is not a game to buy, but I certainly reccomend it as a Gamefly rental.