It appears my intro from yesterday was a hit. Sure it was one person, but that counts right? Being me, I have been sitting here for thirty minutes trying to create another one. According to the latest data from my brain, I am not that witty. He keeps telling me our flashes of funny are few and can come months apart. Maybe I should record the fucking things and just regurgitate them later. Lets move on, Homefront came out yesterday.

As I did with Bulletstorm, I have no intention of reviewing it. I will just give you some thoughts about the game and bitch about other reviews. It annoys me that reviewers are bagging on it for doing nothing different with the control scheme. That is the one thing I am extremely happy about. I felt immediately at home while working through the single player from the start. All due to the controls being similar to COD or Battlefield. One place I do agree with most reviews is on the length of the single player. It is a little short, my first play through was just over five hours. The reason I agree with the reviewers here could have been one or two more levels in the game without it feeling forced. By that I mean without feeling like it was tacked on just to give the game some length. So what do you get for your five hours?

You get an above average story line, that uses a interesting and plausible premise. While the mission were pretty standard fare, I feel that allowed you to drink in what was happening around you. There were several occasions where I felt completely sucked in to what was happening around me. I noticed my mind wandering to what would I do in situation like this. Any game capable of doing that is worth of my time. The art is dirty and I suppose a bit out of date. Then again if you compare almost any game to Killzone 3 or e Crysis, all of them look out of date. I liked the dirty, run down feeling of levels personally. I enjoyed the single player and will be playing through it again for extra achievements. Which if the game bored me, I wouldn’t bother doing. The multi-player was pretty typical for the first day of a new FPS.

Last night the crew and I couldn’t even get a bloody game. When are publishers going to learn that you need servers and lots of them. Granted they were no worse than EA or Activision. I might have been calling them Capcom level bad, but I got in to some matches this morning. I played a couple death match and a couple in the ground control game type. I was impressed with what I have seen so far and expect to spend many nights playing it. While there are vehicles and little drones, they don’t break the fun. In fact I found it to be similar to Battlefield which just makes me want to play it more. Will see how it goes with the crew tonight. Overall the game suffers from over hype. I really wish developers would learn to stop doing that with new IP’s. It just makes reviewers that much harder on your game in my mind. While Homefront won’t change shooters as we know them, it is well worth your time.

The proceeding was my thoughts and opinions not a review. I have been told that it does not conform to the generally accepted reviewing standards. Which none of you know about because they are kept from you by a highly secret cabal of game reviewers. They are the ones responsible for killing off the numbers one through six. If they are capable of kill numbers, I am not going to screw with them. So what you just read is me giving me general take on things. It turned out longer than I expected so I was told I had to put in this disclaimer. Otherwise I would end in the same river as the numbers did.