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On Tue, 02 May 2017 09:01:44 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 01 May 2017 18:59:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>"Homefront: Revolution" surprised me in that it wasn't as horrid as I
>>expected, and honestly I don't really regret the 20 or so hours I
>>invested into playing it, but it's really quite flawed and not a game
>>I expect to return to anytime soon, nor a game I could easily
>>recommend. There are just so many other, games that do it better.
>
>I evaluated it from the standpoint of "wow, I only payed ten bucks for
>this", and from that perspective it's quite good.  I didn't get
>anywhere near 20 hours into it though.  The game started feeling a bit
>repetitive after about 8 or so, but it was still worthwhile and
>something I'll go back to.

It is fairly repetitive, yes. The first few maps are basically all the
same: ruined cities that you skulk about in, taking out enemy bases.
In the middle, you infiltrate a not-ruined part of the city, which is
a nice bit of variation but the gameplay remains mostly the same.
After that it's back to the ruins again for a bit, and then an
attrocious end-game sequence which is as tightly scripted and linear
as almost any Call of Duty game (albeit not done as well). 

>I went back and watched Mack's review of this when it first came out.
>Most of the reasons he trashed it (like keybinding issues) I think
>were problems at release that have been worked out by now.  It still
>has bugs, but nothing like the reviews right after release portray.

I'll grant the developers this much; I didn't have any real technical
issues, at least none that I can remember. Not even any technical
annoyances, like being unable to bind controls the way I like. It did
pretty much everything I expected from a PC game. 

>All in all a nice game for ten bucks. I'm pretty sure I'll never
>complete it unless maybe someone here tells me the gameplay changes
>dramatically after then 10 hour mark.  I just have this feeling that
>I've already seen all the game has to offer.

I try to evaluate a game not so much on how much a game costs in
MONEY, but how much in costs in TIME. The game is low average in
quality; it doesn't do anything really bad, but it fails to do
anything really well either. As such, there are better games in which
to invest your time, games with more polished gameplay, with better
settings and more variety. You won't be miserable if you play
Homefront Revolution - which is an incredible improvement over the
first game - but it's the sort of game you only play after you've
played the better games and need something to fill the time ;-)