Homefront®: The Revolution

So much to say about this one... Story, while not as whacky as OG Homefront is entertaining. It has more serious tone and is pretty okey for what it is. Some good character moments, some really funny ones, it's fine. DLC missions actually add more context to what happened before and after main campaign and I found to be good additions. And while there will be no sequel to this, they kinda tied up the story pretty well. Also OG Homefront never happened, it was all a dream and this is a reboot with it's own story. Main game is in open world format compared to OG, but maps are pretty small so you won't get lost really. Secondary tasks are there if you want to do them, most of them are pretty repetitive but there are more creative jobs there that can make you sweat just a little bit more. One thing that I found really annoying was that there's no tracker for the secondary jobs, so it can be hard to keep track of your progress. Also the whole liberation of different zones can sometimes screw your jobs, because if you completely liberate a sector, certain enemies will stop spawning and you will have to go and complete them elsewhere. Game is also pretty stingy with cash, so you gonna have to grind for a while if you want to unlock every weapon and upgrade. Speaking of weapons and upgrades - mixed feelings. While I like the fact that you can reconfigure guns into multiple ways, I feel that attachment system could have been better? There are too few, not every weapon can have them and most of them do completely same thing (looking at you bipod and foregrip). Also shooting feels kinda off, just try hipfire spam the starting pistol. bullets don't go where your pistol points to, you'll see what I mean. Sound and music are decent. Main ambient theme will get on your nerves pretty quickly though. Luckily soundtrack gets a bit better later in the game. That pause menu track- pure concert. Guns sound a bit underpowered, kinda wish they had more *UMPH* to them. Rest is pretty ok. The gameplay part is pretty eh, AI is braindead, yet when they spot you, they are relentless and will go above and beyond to swarm you. What is maddening is that in the beginning you only fight normal "norks" with stormtrooper accuracy but later on you will be up against marksmen variants with semiauto rifles that, on higher difficulties, will snipe you from across the map with 4-5 shots, making the game pretty boring to play. This AI is also a hivemind - if one notices you, then everyone knows that you're there making stealth approach pretty useless most of the time. There's also drones that can be reprogrammed to fight on your side for a few seconds but they are also braindead and pretty useless. I would honestly recommend to play this on deathwish, since it actually makes the game challenging, but then the whole weapon sandbox goes out the window, cos only "meta" guns you will ever need is fully upgraded pistol, LMG and Limpet launcher. One other thing is that the feedback you receive when hit is pretty bad and since you don't regenerate health, you'll end up dead before you know it more than you want to. Now, I heard stories about it's launch and while it is "mostly" patched it's still kinda broken. Some quests get borked and softlock on you, there's glitches galore, physics are thrown out the window and don't work half the time, sometimes you can get stuck in environment and have to reload a checkpoint to get out, graphics are hit and miss. texture streaming can be an issue and AI is mostly A without the I. In my 2 attempts to finishing the campaign, I got softlocked twice, had trouble triggering certain type of missions/events (flashpoints, dear lord hold me) and saw countless bugs, like floating carrying handle for my LMG and enemies clipping through walls and getting stuck. If I could give this a maybe, I would, I thought it was ok, but it's definitely not for everyone. Get this on a sale, or skip it, you are not missing out.