The whole thing is a missed oppertunity. The "freedom fighters" angle has tons of potential, you could make such an amazing game on that premise, i can come up with a million ideas right now just thinking about the premise, of interesting locales that have never been done in games, gameplay mechanics, the sort of missions you could make, there is just so much potential in the idea!
And it's all squandered in Homefront, who seem intent on taking this great and different idea, and mashing it into the CoD cookie cutter mold till nothing of the origional idea remains..
Ok, so we've got a world falling apart and alliances falling by the wayside, but lets not visit anything interesting and new, like Kosovo falling back into old patterns, Finland getting annexed by Russia, South Korea beeing invaded by the North, Japan beeing invaded by China, or anything interesting and new, or any of a hundred historical struggles that actually happened and which have never been put into a game before. Lets just make it about Americans as allways, yeah, that's the ticket!
And lets not do anything interesting with the gameplay either. Ohh sure, with a premise like this, they had every oppertunity to choose a setting where civilians do not have easy access to firearms, and make exciting stealth based missions, taking notes from the Thief series and games like NOLF-2, and suspensfull fighting mechanics from games like RO, where you have to face overwhelming odds to aquire even the most basic of firearms, tools to modify them, and choose how you might want to sabotage the enemy to give yourself more room to opperate in, and even risk your neck just to bring intel from one resistance group to the other.
Ohh no, why do anything like that, when you can just copy/paste the gameplay from CoD, and give everyone M4's, so real blood, and have people circle strafe tanks and fire RPG's at them from 2 meters away with no ill effects to themselves.
Who would want things like suspense, an emotional connection with the gameworld, because the gameplay mechanics seem plausible, stealth and aquisition of weapons and intel, an enemy that actually seems threatning and dangerous because you can't just gun down 500 of them in a scripted event, guerilla warfare, or anything wierd like that, who would want such a thing!?!?
No no no, lets just make a 1:1 scale CoD clone, which plays like a bad 80's "straight to video" action movie starring Reb Brown and Chuck Norris, yeah, that's the right way to do a resistance movement!
Seargant shooter master person of extreme importance, **** YEAH! Go Wolverines!!
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