Kaos: Homefront Multiplayer Experience is Worth $60

In an interview for CVG, David Votypka, Kaos Studios' GM, said that Homefront has plenty to offer despite the game's short solo campaign that has been criticised in early reviews.
THQ confirmed in January that Homefront will be using their recently developed online pass system for multiplayer, which means that the users without the pass will still be able to play online but they won't be able to pass level five experience out the possible 75 levels.

[gravemaker]

its not an excuse for shitty single player compaign

[lastdual]

Kaos is throwing away money by ignoring singleplayer gamers.

The buzz in the industry may be all about multiplayer, but a huge percent of gamers still care first and foremost about the campaign. That's probably 50% of their sales that they are leaving by the wayside by focusing so little on the singleplayer experience.

[Motion]

Not many recent multi-player-centric FPS's have had good single player campaigns as of late. I see no real reason for this one to be any different:p Things won't change until consumers start voting with their wallets.

[retrofly]

Havn't played a good SP FPS since HL1 :)

[badz149]

among the best SP FPS released in recent years

[gorebago]

Half life 2 was the last GREAT fps imo - gravity gun rules

[badz149]

and this is certainly not an excuse for short SP either! MAG should have been $40 and campaign in KZ3 should've been longer - awesome overall but felt really short changed when it's over! there's not even any collectibles for god sake, WTF?

I don't even want to talk about CoD because it won't end well!

[Lekumkee]

Apparently not, since now it's $41.96. Go back and work a texture pack and we'll talk. Something is wrong your game when you can walk up to any object and actually see the individual pixel in the textures.

[VenomProject]

Wow, so what about the campaign? LOL

[Motorola]

What campaign?

[BloodyNapkin]

I actually blinked and missed the campaign while i was playing.

[Stealth20k]

reviews speak for themselves

@below

A C is average. Not good, that would be a b-.

[SilverSlug]

Yeah, its averaging a 70%, so its good.

[BigKev45]

In school, a 70 is a C. Right?

[Pandamobile]

Depends.

My high school went 50-59 = D, 60-69 = C, ... and so on.

[guitarded77]

@Pandamobile
Your high school sounds retarded.

[BloodyNapkin]

@Pandamobile

OMG, some people are so funny.

So, 50-59=D, 60-69=C, 70-79=B, 80-89=A, 90-99=?

If you're highschool followed that scale, then was it a special highschool with a yellow shortbus?

[jakethesnake]

People don't realize that in Canada, all the grading is as Panda described it. And it's not because we are special and it doesn't lead to grade inflation. Just ask my wife who moved to Canada for part of her BA and did a masters. Just because an A range is 20% instead of 10% doesn't mean it's any easier to get an A.

[dillydadally]

Bunch of high schoolers in here... Most grading scales in the U.S. are like that too when you get to college. That's THE standard grading scale. High schools tend to alter that scale but some decide to go with the standard scale to match everyone else.

[t2taylor]

yeah but not in gaming reviews. 7/10 is good with some flaws or missed details. learn to be a critic in the right category.

[SilverSlug]

Going by numbers is retarded. 10 scale is broke. 1-5 means nothing since 6 is 'horrible' to most and 7 is bad.

Seriously, some of my favorite games this gen got 6-7 metacritic. If you trust reviewers, you are a sado.

[Soldierone]

Yeah if you put COD controls with a Battlefield scale, and so far the lag from Black Ops, you get Homefront! Thats all I see it as so far. Its a solid idea, that wasn't fully done correctly.

[distorted_reality]

If the developer believes that strongly in their MP, i'd much rather they spend the time getting that as good as possible and not bothering to include an SP component, rather than have either component feel tacked on and useless.

That goes the other way as well.

Am getting sick of devs feeling the need to tack on more features when it is obviously sacrificing overall quality. Don't know where the blame lies for devs feeling that need.....but either way it's ruining potentially good games.

[vickers500]

Agreed. Devs, if your games most popular and most loved element of your fps is multiplayer, then just stick with multiplayer and don't even bother with some crappy single player (looking at you DICE, Guerilla Games, Treyarch/Sledgehammer/Infinity Ward).

[jbiz320]

then you should have focused all of your resources to make a kick ass multi only game.. dont spend the better parts of a year hyping up your games storyline and it turns out that it plays/looks like dogs balls. AND you should be ashamed of making a 4-5 hour campaign on a game.

[gorebago]

I wasn't upset that it was only four hours - I hated it that much - wished it was even shorter

[t2taylor]

1) Campaigns are NOT the ONLY main structure of a game.
2) The Multi Player is very very good. IDK what game most people are playing but i throughly enjoy the MP.
3) LAG?!?! what lag... it's dedicated servers meaning only reason your lagging is cause your too cheap for 20mb dsl.
4) Why must everything be compared to a frustrating, fanboy based games, AKA Call of Duty & Battlefield. Yes they're great for there own reason but so is this game.
5) Most reviews are biased anyway. I played this game with an opened mind thinking this would be the same as Front lines: FoW and it wasn't it was a UNIQUE experience.

[Ashby_JC]

Bubbles for #2

I played it last night and after learning whats what...a VERY VERY good game.

The problem on this site is everything is compared to other games.

Its like if the GFX are not on par with the TOP best looking game then the game is somehow BAD.

Homefront I am enjoying. Are the GFX great...NO. They are GOOD to FAIR. But that was the same I could say for MAG. Which I felt was a very good game.

I can see myself putting some hours into Homefront. Especially once I start getting to add some ppl who use mics onto my friends list.

That in itself can MAKE or break a game for me. How much ppl actually TALK.

I played Killzone 3....and its like im playing against BOTS...no one talks!!!

I cant blame it on the PS3 as I have met TONS of gamers on BFBC2 who talk and added them to my friends list.

DOnt let the naysayers on this site sway you. Homefront is a GOOD game. Havent finished the campaign. But I am enjoying it for what it is. At least it HAS a story I can relate to. ANd enemies...who I WANT to kill LOL!

FYI....if you rent the game...you can play MP but cant go past level 5 unless you buy the game for the code or pay $10 for a code.

[dillydadally]

MORE bubbles for you t2taylor. I couldn't agree more with what you said. The multiplayer is at least an 8.5 by the lowest reviewers standards, and I would give it at least a 9. I get just as sick of people rating a game solely on the single player and ignoring the multiplayer! That's horrible journalism! Every one of those low scores were the same - a full page on harping on the single player (which honestly was much better than the rap its getting) and then one paragraph at the bottom saying the multiplayer is actually very good... so why the horrible score if there's a great multiplayer? Horrible journalism in my opinion.

[Shazz]

i just dont trust games from thq anymore after buying ufc 2010 with broken online and waiting around 2 months for a patch which didnt fix it.

[therapist]

game is FREAKING SWEET on PC!!

on console it looks like 90% of other console games, washed out, sub-hd and covered in jaggies

unless a dev has four years to spend optimizing for one single console, the games on ps3 and 360 always look like trash compared to the pc

The pc version of homefront looks wayy better than killzone 3, halo reach, uncharted 2, god of war 3, alan wake or any other console game, The controls are perfect and the action frantic, the game runs at a sexy 90 frames per second!!

[t2taylor]

Yes it's way better to play any game on pc then most consoles. i too enjoy the aspect of this game on pc.

[BigKev45]

Your balls are washed out.

[Gamer_Z]

Well if the games main focus was multiplayer then why didn’t they just make Homefront an all MP game instead of tacking on a crappy SP. They could have saved a lot of disc space and used it to make an even better MP with more maps, more guns, and better graphics.

[Ashby_JC]

The SP aspect is subjective. I havent finished it. BUt I wouldnt say it was crappy.

So far im like an hour in and I like it much better then other SP/MP games. I have YET to finish ANY SP n COD because all of them have no type of stories I can even follow or know what theheck is going on most of the time lol.

[Beahmscream]

Average game. Going back to bfbc2

[josephayal]

$60 no way MEH!

[harbour]

I'm a first person shooter fanatic who's played them all and i don't really remember too much from any of the campaign's to be honest. I've prestiged in black ops after whoring around forever maxed out and haven't touched the campaign yet on that game. Even when i play the mass effect games to some extent, there's just something about fighting against other humans that ai can't replicate.

If this game goes on for 40 bucks in Canada like it does in the states i'm all over it, but i'm really enjoying killzone 3 at the moment and with crysis 2 on the horizon, it's so hard to buy all the same thing. Even though fps' are most of what i play, i'm having to moderate myself. I wonder how many fps' a person can play at a time and still be any good at them. That would make a great experiment. Crysis,,,duke nukem,,,,brink,,,rage sometime,,,battlefield 3,,,killzone being awesome,,i'm glad everyone else seems to be as addicted as me.

[Ashby_JC]

Played it last night for a few hours.

SP...played for about an hour or so, I like it...but dont like the respawnin or whatever its called ememies. But I do feel something inside when I kill the enemy based on whats happening in the story.

Thats MORE than I can say for other SP campaigns that your shooting ppl and dont really know WHY!?

The MP. Initially jumped on that first and got killed and got zero kills...that was based on not knowing the controls or maps etc.

So went to SP then back to MP. I really like the Battle Points. And getting points as the game goes on is cool. Im hoping they add more weapons and gadgets as time goes on.

Not sure how many maps there are. But I really like them. They are BIG .. but not TO big..a nice size for flanking etc.

I got better as I played more and understood what was going on. I only played TD as that is easy to just get in and get a feel for weapons and such.

Not really liking the pistol...maybe im jus so used to BFBC2s pistols. The hit detection is good, no complaints. Doesnt seem to be any bullet drop for sniping which isnt a bad thing.

GFX...it gets the job done. No its not on the level of Killzone ...BUT...what it does that killzone fails at...is a larger scale battle with more going on then infantry combat.

I love MPs with vehicles and other things to kill besides the enemies...what i mean is..blowing up tanks...humvees...etc.

Is the game worth $60...its up in the air as I rented it and mst likely will purchase it for like $45 from gamefly.

IMO...there really isnt anything on the radar to offer what this game offers until COD and BF3 hits in the fall, So YES I would pay $60 for it ..even though im not...maybe Ill get my GF to buy it for me :)

Now if I can only play the stupid Crysis 2 demo on the PS3. Crytek must dont want PS3 gamers money cause I cant even play the freaking DEMO!!!! It wont let me in one game....not a good sign!