What is your opinion on this game so far ?

[kuddo]

From the trailers it looks like being a mixture between Modern Warfare 2 graphics and Battlefield Bad Company 2 gameplay but with a Frontlines:Fuel of War touch.
If the game is going to be a mixture of the above mentioned games then everyone is going to have very high expectations.

Sry for bad English.

[Shen]

It's going to flop.

[AsheMan]

Looks good to me.

[Antichrist XVII]

I'm just hoping there is a collectors edition that come with the novel and the game in one pack. Either way, I'm getting it as soon as I can, looks awesome.

[Lone-Wolf]

The story looks the best imo, and its semi real :P, when NK fired those rockets, I immediately thought.."Homefront lolz"

[AnonymousX]

Looks good, going to buy this and BRINK :)

[AudioCG]

One of the games I am currently keeping an eye on, looks promising!

[GSH]

Just watched the newly uploaded vids, it looks really good so far. I have high hopes for both SP and MP.

http://www.giantspacehamster.com/2010/12/homefront-will-it-flop-or-be-cod-killer.html

[chevydriver1123]

I was disappointed with Frontlines so I am skeptical about this game.

[shaggy15mk]

I hope;) its not like Call of Duty: Black Ops not worth the money to play!:mad:

[JRCOBRA]

looks interesting but I find the whole North Korea becoming uber super power really really stupid would be better if it was China instead.

[Hotbeef!]

I have been excited about this game for awhile. I never really been excited for a game like this.

Hope its awesome

[Pixel Knight]

This game is on my radar. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

[unshapenrug]

Couldn't call it Frontlines 2 or Frontlines Homefront, no one would buy it?

Single player might be okay, depends on how ramped up they make PC system specs. I'm sure it will run just fine on the consoles.

[Exinjeru]

They can't make it China because they're doing an actual remake of Red Dawn with China.
This game company is full of Koreans so they think Korea could take over the world.
The game will succeed or fail based entirely on it's technical aspects, if it's a serious attempt at a game or just a crappy xbox port trying to be like Call of Duty or Battlefield.
Frontlines was their last game and it was pretty poor across all platforms.

[Mr. X]

It looks good. I'm willing to buy the game when it's released.

[ben583]

Frontlines wasn't too bad for me, so I hope they've improved since then.

[muscadine]

looks interesting but I find the whole North Korea becoming uber super power really really stupid would be better if it was China instead.

It's more believable than the Taliban calling in a Harrier Jet/Supply Drop/Nuke...

[Jinoruizraged]

HL2 plus CoD4? Sure. It looks great.

Frontlines was fun enough. :D

[Toridas]

Just watched the trailer for this for the treasure hunt. It looks like an exact copy of battlefield bad company 2. Even stuff the devs say in the trailer that no other games have, like map boundaries that move when an objective is taken, are already in BC2. The ONLY new thing I saw the entire time was the ability to buy stuff at any time.

[mundox86]

Don't like it.

[tunguska47]

people thinking of buying this game are noobs and know nothing about what happen on the game Frontlines

they knew if the game was called frontlines 2 they wouldn't make enough money from it so they called it home front and it has nothing to do with frontlines but everything in it was copy and paste from frontlines to home front LOL

there is way to many titles coming out next year i beg of u don't waste ur money on homefront i don't wanna see anyone's money wasted

at least wait sometime after release to hear good or bad things about it

here are some titles that coming out the same time frame homefront is coming out

FEAR 3 / Dead space 2 / Crysis 2 / Brink

[Junoo]

I won't pre-order this title, but have a look on it.

[tunguska47]

It looks good. I'm willing to buy the game when it's released.

go buy Fronlines:fuel of war to get a preview of whats its gonna be like cause they only changed the weapon/character models with the worst hitbox u well ever see in a FPS game

the time frontlines came out it didn't have server support like 3 months later after release

[AlHudsonFX]

HL2 plus CoD4? Sure. It looks great.

Frontlines was fun enough. :D

;) +1

[AlHudsonFX]

go buy Fronlines:fuel of war to get a preview of whats its gonna be like cause they only changed the weapon/character models with the worst hitbox u well ever see in a FPS game

the time frontlines came out it didn't have server support like 3 months later after release

Sure and is a shame because FFOW multiplayer is good (When you find enough people to play and a server with decent map rotation)

[dontdisme0]

looks interesting but I find the whole North Korea becoming uber super power really really stupid would be better if it was China instead.

actualy, its pretty plausable. if north korea does unite with south korea and north korea is calling the shots over the new country, then the NK regime would immediately have a massive economic and technological boom that could (with a domino effect of smaller, NK anex'ed asian nations). could result in them becoming very powerful.

NK has a very solid administration thats probably more tight-knitted than most modern superpowers. If the NK were to get mass resources all of a sudden, (through korean re-unification), they easily have the administrative power to effectively launch a take-over.

[neuromancer]

FFOW multiplayer was ♥♥♥♥ing awesome. As one of the lucky few for whom the game worked perfectly from day 1 it was the most fun I've had gaming since Desert Combat. IMO FFOW utterly blows away BFBC2 but nobody plays it anymore.

The problem was that a large chunk of the playerbase was having game breaking problems with it and it was 3 months after release before they even started to address the issues. By that point most people had given up on it and there was nobody left to play with.

If Kaos has learned their lesson from that experience then Homefront is going to be amazing.

[Exinjeru]

Except
1: the north will never reunify, they're poor and starving, one day they'll be forced to surrender to the south
2: japan is more powerful than both, and racist towards Koreans, they would never be beaten or accept defeat by Koreans

[johnnybeverage]

I'm hopeful. I put this on my wish list. I'll read a few reviews and see from there. I do like the game play footage I saw.

[smashcat]

Frontlines as a game was good but they absolutley destroyed it by the sloppy release and no support for PC. Reading the developer info gives me a little hope this will be a more polished effort. They have outsourced the PC version and it will have some individuality to that of the consoles. This also includes dedicated servers.
Time will tell if this release is any good. These guys do understand the MP squad play and the need for good in-game vehicle use (BFBC2 almost gets that part right)
If they price it right and provide good support this will be worth looking at. I think its biggest obstacle is as mention the calamity that was FFOW.
Lets hope they learned there lesson

[TheMediaMongrel]

I really don't have high hopes for this. Don't get me wrong: I want it to be good. The idea and the ambition are there, and a really gut-wrenching single player is definitely needed, but this wouldn't be my go-to MP game.

[Casus]

Frontlines as a game was good but they absolutley destroyed it by the sloppy release and no support for PC. Reading the developer info gives me a little hope this will be a more polished effort. They have outsourced the PC version and it will have some individuality to that of the consoles. This also includes dedicated servers.
Time will tell if this release is any good. These guys do understand the MP squad play and the need for good in-game vehicle use (BFBC2 almost gets that part right)
If they price it right and provide good support this will be worth looking at. I think its biggest obstacle is as mention the calamity that was FFOW.
Lets hope they learned there lesson

This ^

Gameplay wise FFOW was a lot of fun.

Support from Kaos was what ruined it.

Extremely skeptical of this game simply because Kaos is behind it and the completely horrid job they did to their last product.

[YourAverageJoe]

It's asking me to take a setting, even less viable than CoD4's, which was already stretching it, seriously. First of all, Korea isn't going to unite without outside power, it's just not gonna happen. Second, the mere notion that Western Europe would abandon the US is just plain stupid. Third, China has huge interests to protect in the US. Fourth, even IF Korea were to unite on its own, I doubt the side armed with malnourished militia wielding obsolete equipment would win over the next Japan except with less power restrictions.

[vicg]

It's going to flop.

This. The story is too ridiculous for me. Seriously? North Korea? Do the devs know how the world works? North Korea is the ♥♥♥♥ties country on Earth tied with cuba and some african and middle eastern countries.The game also seems to take itself too seriously with this horrible premise. Also ♥♥♥♥ty console port incoming.

[AlHudsonFX]

Why so serious???? It's a game!!!

Do you want to play a realistic story? play MOH
Do you want to play a realistic shooter? play ARMA 2

[xDeathbecomesUx]

First of all Homefront is basically the sequel to Frontlines:Fuels of War, just with a different storyline and name.

The game mode looks exactly like Frontlines one game mode has both teams trying to move the frontlines if you capture the current front 3 ( usually ) points you move the up battlefield and now spawn closer to the enemy, until you finally try to capture the enemies remaining control points or time runs out, in which case its been awhile and believe it goes by number of tickets you have left.

So the game mode isn't quite like Conquest and definitely not like Rush mode from BC. Like any other mode its a variation of modes it was also in Frontlines which came out before BC1 I believe.

The game is made by KAOS Studios who is made up of people who worked on BF2 on PC.

I played Frontlines on 360 and enjoyed the heck out of it, it is still one of the best shooting games I have played on the 360, the vehicles are very easy and very fun to control, and enjoyed them alot more then using vehicles in BFBC games. ( I always enjoyed the BF2 games on PC more) The vehicles in FFOW were easy but still took plenty of skill to master.

There wasn't alot of variety in guns and the shooting mechanics weren't a strong point but it was balanced. There were alot of cool abilities to choose from. I had tons of fun with the drones, and the airstrikes were really cool the sound effects were great hearing a big strike go off a block away sounded awesome. The map design and detail which is always a big point with me was awesome as well.

So needless to say I am really looking forward to this game, I think KAOS studios really knowhow to make a fun MP game based on their history so its definitely on my list to watch out for.

[Casus]

It's asking me to take a setting, even less viable than CoD4's, which was already stretching it, seriously. First of all, Korea isn't going to unite without outside power, it's just not gonna happen. Second, the mere notion that Western Europe would abandon the US is just plain stupid. Third, China has huge interests to protect in the US. Fourth, even IF Korea were to unite on its own, I doubt the side armed with malnourished militia wielding obsolete equipment would win over the next Japan except with less power restrictions.

I actually thought Homefront's setting was pretty plausible...

2011: North Korea's weapons program grows significantly, leading to sanctions by the UN

2012: Kim Jong-il dies at 71. He is succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un

2013: Kim Jong-un reunites North Korea and South Korea under North Korean rule.

2015: Gas prices rise to $20 a gallon in the United States, destabilizing the country

2017: The US Dollar collapses and the US Military begins to downgrade its foreign presence

2018: Japan surrenders to the Greater Korean Republic, forming an 'alliance' (e.g. being capitalized into a vassal state of sorts)

2022: The United States' economic system collapses totally

2024: Koreans annex many nations in East Asia

2025: GKR attacks the US

2025: An EMP hidden in a communications satellite is used to completely disable US infrastructure

2025: GKR forces seize Hawaii

2025: Cyber attack takes down hardened sites

2025: Korean troops control San Francisco

2026: US military is scattered

Unified Korea (plausible)
Peak Oil (Plausible)
US Economic/Politcal Collapse due to peak oil (Plausible)
Japanese Surrender (Plausible)
Korea Annex Countries (iffy)
EMP Attack (Plausible)
Successful Cyber Attack (Plausible)
Ground Invasion (Plausible)

[Mgp]

Anyone who bought FFOW when it first came it out will remember the scenario only too well.

FFOW MP came out HALF finished basically, and then got really bad, slow support too little too late. The player base reduced to a trickle once the realisation hit that it would always remain unfinished and half assed.

People here blaming Kaos,(who had a great rep from doing battlefield desert combat mod) which I think is unfair, it was pretty obvious THQ the publishers rushed it out early and unfinished to meet a deadline, and then abandoned it funding/budget wise very shortly after release.

I would be very careful about buying this before reading some reviews, purely based on the last THQ/Kaos experience.

[Trindogshow]

It's going to flop.

agreed

[DAH]

Not only that but the whole "Commies invading America!" has been done to death in games. Also did anyone else get a Freedom Fighters vibe from this game?

[Freyar]

I don't mind the story so much (at least it is more coherent than Frontlines was). That said, I didn't find myself enjoying Frontline's gameplay. I didn't get a chance to play for a good amount of time, but it felt like a game with the size that Frontlines had was missing a core component, that being intel.

On one hand, the story has me interested, almost enough to make me consider buying, but the long-run multiplayer has me iffy. Helicopters are supposed to be "easy" to pilot, which probably means they'll lack mass (IE: Bad Company 2: Vietnam) or they'll be simplified to the point where some basic flight controls will be missing (IE: Just Cause 2's lack of rudder controls for aircraft). As soon as I saw the ground drones, I felt the stinging memory of lackluster enjoyment of Frontlines as well. Hopefully the pace will be much better this time around.

Just please, please.. give PC players the advantages that the platform can use. Full 158+ keys to use, more than three buttons for the mouse, proper aspect ratios all the way to triple-head support, multiple binds for actions, multiple keys assigned to multiple actions for different situations), anti-aliasing, proper shadow rendering (IE: Not Mass Effect), decently detailed textures (IE: Not Dead Rising 2), benchmarking utilities to help identify good balances between performance and visuals (IE: Lost Planet, RE5).

[Smotter]

Just please, please.. give PC players the advantages that the platform can use. Full 158+ keys to use, more than three buttons for the mouse, proper aspect ratios all the way to triple-head support, multiple binds for actions, multiple keys assigned to multiple actions for different situations), anti-aliasing, proper shadow rendering (IE: Not Mass Effect), decently detailed textures (IE: Not Dead Rising 2), benchmarking utilities to help identify good balances between performance and visuals (IE: Lost Planet, RE5).

This is what I want to see from every games. +1

[TwwIX]

If it's anything like their last game, it'll bomb. They'll probably end up abandoning it too after a patch or two.

[Mariusz803]

I hope;) its not like Call of Duty: Black Ops not worth the money to play!:mad:

Hahaha so true. Black Ops was a waste of my money in the sense that i wanted to play MW2 MORE than i want to play Black Ops.

Game trailers look interesting, i'll be keeping an eye out for this one. Anyone know if there will be destructive environment like in BC2?

[d10sfan]

If they support it better than Frontlines, it might be good, but itll probably flop anyways. Seems like they are rehasing lots of old stuff from Frontlines

[McKie]

I'm going to wait until everyone else buy's this... then make a decision. Better for everyone else to waste there money if it ends up flopping then me. Black ops has changed the way I buy games now.

[FraserCDN]

The video in the OP looks good but the game play video on steam looks like Front lines. I think this game is going to be a flop, COD is to big of a franchise to take down right now. Everyone keeps referring games as a COD Killer. Well its not going to happen. There are too many COD Fan-boys that love COD to change. The only game Im waiting for is Red Orchestra 2 and Battlefield 3.

[Mgp]

It looks like they have used a lot of the same assets, textures, etc from frontlines fow.

In this sense it may be a good thing as FFOW was essentially an UNfinished game, meaning they have had all that time since then to perfect their game. Kaos have done nothing since ffow as far as I am aware, so this may be like FFOW how it should have been.

Then again I could be totally wrong.

One of FFOW's problems was the 'single player'-aka-Massive tutorial. If they had of just developed the MP, I am sure they would have had more time and resources to do a good job. Hopefully the mp does not suffer this time because of too much time spent on SP.

[WarDog64]

FFOW multiplayer was ♥♥♥♥ing awesome. As one of the lucky few for whom the game worked perfectly from day 1 it was the most fun I've had gaming since Desert Combat. IMO FFOW utterly blows away BFBC2 but nobody plays it anymore.

The problem was that a large chunk of the playerbase was having game breaking problems with it and it was 3 months after release before they even started to address the issues. By that point most people had given up on it and there was nobody left to play with.

If Kaos has learned their lesson from that experience then Homefront is going to be amazing.

well said. not sure if i agree with "better than BFBC2" part however, but i like the game and STILL play it.

[Freyar]

I don't know. The lack of players online when I got to it, along with the rather un-fun multiplayer locally made it one of the lesser-enjoyable and (sadly for THQ) the more easily forgotten titles.

[Chapa9dj]

Looks pretty good judging for the images and the actual footage.
I pre-ordered it so i'm totally looking forward to it.

[vicsrealms]

From what I have read SP is only 6 hours long. Not worth $50 dollars in my opinion. They once again made the mistake of concentrating too heavily on MP at the expense of the SP campaign. I'll wait till it Steam has it on sale and then I might get it. Bummer, but they have a book version coming out and I hope it does well.

[-x-X-x-]

Looks like it's gonna be pretty much the same as frontlines.

Frontlines looked awesome and had some good trailers, but it was one big flop.

[NSSherlock]

The MP seems fun...but i think even Battlefield Play4Free looks better. FLOP imho

[quasit]

I'm just watching the trailers. I didn't like this: "If you're fighting a vehicle and you need a new rocket launcher, you can pick one up right on the fly." Maybe I'm just used to BC2's way of only being able to change stuff when you die, but I still don't like it.

The single play could be interesting, though I'd wait for a sale.

[Freyar]

The MP seems fun...but i think even Battlefield Play4Free looks better. FLOP imho

... Play4Free looks completely horrible considering modern engines.

I'm just watching the trailers. I didn't like this: "If you're fighting a vehicle and you need a new rocket launcher, you can pick one up right on the fly." Maybe I'm just used to BC2's way of only being able to change stuff when you die, but I still don't like it.

The single play could be interesting, though I'd wait for a sale.

I'm a bit concerned about that as well. Considering I typically fly or run armor, the influence of mechanized seems to be made irrelevant.

[RainFox]

First impressions I got based on trailers and other info on the net: it's going to be a very mediocre game. The story is pretty bad but I wouldn't pay much attention to it if you're planning to play mostly multiplayer segment of the game. The graphics look bulky, the animations don't have that "flowing", smooth feeling you'd expect from seeing a real person do something, the special effects aren't really spectacular, etc. etc. This isn't something you'd come to expect from a game scheduled to be released in 2011. Unfortunately, as many have pointed out already, there's a huge possibility that it's going to be a bad console port.

I'd love to see a new competitor in the mulitplayer FPS segment but this one just doesn't look promising to me. Of course, I'll wait for the release and see how it turns out.

By the way, the multiplayer footage you can watch on Steam is taken from the Xbox version, right? Why else would there be an Xbox logo in the end of the video? Not going to completely assume that the game is doomed on PC but you can make your own conclusions.