THQ's recent shooter, Homefront is off to a good start. Following reports from THQ of 375,000 sales on day one in the Americas, week one sales for the game reached 850,000 units worldwide according to VGChartz estimates. Roughly two out of every three units sold were in the Americas in the initial week.
The game also sold around two thirds of the total on Microsoft's X360 in its first week of availability with the remainder on PS3 and PC. Despite generally mediocre reviews, Homefront has managed to outperform recent titles such as Bulletstorm, Dragon Age II and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in week one and should pass 2 million units over the summer.
Jack writes: "Back in March 2011, the first-person action shooter Homefront arrived on the Xbox 360 from THQ, along with a storm of publicity which included a really cool live-action trailer"
Last week game dev Steve Thornton took to Twitter to ask: fellow devs, have you ever slipped something into a game you're working on that's just for you? The replies are well worth a read.
Deep Silver and Humble Bundle are currently offering the first Homefront game for free. This offer will last for the next 48 hours, so be sure to visit its Humble Bundle page in order to acquire your free copy.
get it! the single player is excellent and intense and the MP is pretty fun, too.
Ehh, PS4 needs these deals too, or consoles in general we always get discounts rarely free stuff that's REALLY free (games with gold / psplus isn't free)
So it's actually succeeded even with all the negative reviews... Just goes to show... The mp is good though, and that must be what's attracting the masses.
That's... a shame, hail the generic shooter, let the true games die! (Okami comes to mind)
how good is homefront online? the game looks like a ps2/xbox game...
skeptical, on console yes, it looks quite bad
The pc version looks better than any console game ever made if you got a mid-range rig
mine is upper mid and runs it maxed at 90 frames per second and it easily kills any ps3 or 360 game visually
The MP is good, a nice mix of battlefield and frontlines, the servers are very very stable and there are a shit ton of dedicated servers to choose from, I would not touch this game on console though, halo or killzone 2 would be a better choice, the devs made the game for pc and just did a half ass console port
These numbers don't even include how many North Korea bought to stop from being distributed. or do they???
Haha seriously though... I like the MP very very much... satisfying... I dunno something new/retro about it.. Grapics aren't the world to me.
It seems though that maybe steady Developer involvement in current issues will probably make or break this game... A lot of problems are going on right now... and I've been seeing most people giving this until Friday unless the issues are fixed..
I dunno... I play this a little bit, then I'll play MGO... and then I play KZ3... not in this or any certain order...
looking forward to SOCOM 4 the actual game and beta (KZ
Code= Still Waiting)... looking forward to Brink... BF3....