It reframes the concept of an America beset by huge amounts of debt owed to the North Koreans. The story of Homefront Revolution is more of a reboot than a sequel, a strange choice after only one entry in the series, yet that’s what it is. For all the numerous faults, both on the creative and technical side, there’s a good game hiding somewhere inside a good game that simply can’t overcome all the negatives weighing it down. The trouble with it is that it’s not an entirely bad one either.

And indeed, the end product isn’t a good one.

Considering this was a sequel already built on a faulty foundation, the signs did not bode well for this entry in the series. Homefront: The Revolution‘s development history is a troubled one, filled with financial issues, switching of studios, and team shake-ups. Much like the aggregate score for the first title, the tease doesn’t tell the whole story. Nothing at all that warranted a sequel…yet here we were, several years later, receiving teasers for a Homefront sequel that actually looked interesting. Though far-fetched, the original Homefront at least had an interesting concept with decent dialogue to accompany its progression through an interesting world, though with extremely poor A.I. In the case of Homefront, the contribution of Milius seems to have been overstated as well. Despite any nostalgia for the film and its cast, both are thoroughly mediocre. Both play on America’s fears of a communistic/dictatorial invasion and both obviously feel the influence of Milius. In the film, the enemy is Russian in the game, North Korea. The connection the latter film, which he also directed, is obvious, as both involve an America which had been captured and occupied by enemy forces. The game’s only true call to fame was the writing credit attributed to John Milius, screenwriter of the original Conan the Barbarian, Apocalypse Now, a number of Dirty Harry films, and, perhaps most relevant to this game series, Red Dawn. Having played through the title on the PS3 platform shortly after its release, I’d say a 7 was very generous.

In the case of newer refined guidelines here at OnlySP, a 7 is solidly in the good category (see my recent DOOM review). Depending on the outlet this means average to good.

The scores for Homefront average out to about a 7 in most cases. This is an interesting case of how the public and the outlets remember games that received a lot of hype but didn’t meet expectations. Most people remember the game as being terrible and having received low scores. Homefront was released in 2011 from THQ and developer Kaos Studios.

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