Homefront brings what other titles have tried and failed at.
So I waited at Best Buy where I pre-ordered the title because it came with what I thought would be a decent headset. ( I was very wrong and luckily they didn't have very many and substituted them with $30 Turtle Beaches. A very nice upgrade. ) I went with my girlfriend and two friends ( All four of us were picking up copies. ) and couldn't wait to get home to dive right into the multi-player. I could have never expected what was going to happen.
So I jumped into a multi-player lobby alone and tried to join Team Deathmatch. I waited for fifteen minutes before being thrown into a LAG crushing game. One person had a max bar connection and everyone else was running with a minimum red bar. I was very confused since it was supposed to be dedicated servers and the person with the best connection was the only individual doing well. I played anyways to get a feel for the controls and our team lost horribly. I played for about four hours and tried out all the game modes possible before I gave up and went over to the campaign. I'm one to wait patiently for a patch and not regret purchasing a game. I guess that's why I own so many video games. I went back to the multi-player the next day and a small patch was available and it made all the difference for me. People were actually dieing!!
One great thing about Homefront is the need to play as a team. The game really caters to campers and if you run and gun like Black Ops or Modern Warfare 2, you will get your ass handed to you. Homefront really feels like the joining of Call of Duty titles and the Battlefield titles with a little bit of MAG to top it off. I really enjoy what the game brings to the gaming world and I hope to see more support from the developers. Many titles see problems upon launch and I'm not going to attack the developers for hitting a few snags.
The campaign for me is great. I am still running through it as I post this review, but from what I have played, I hate nothing. I am also playing through the game on the hardest difficulty and it is nothing to mess around with. I bounced between the difficulties at the beginning to get a feel for the AI and it plays almost the same no matter how much you beef up the settings. Only thing really impacted by the hardened difficulty is bullet damage. The AI is insane about trying to rush you and it really makes you feel like you are truly defending yourself.
Seeing how Homefront is a game about taking back what is yours. I feel they have really delivered that through a good campaign and intense multi-player.