Edwards's review of the Homefront Demo.

[Edwards]

2,000 megabytes, and 8 hours of downloading later, I gave the Homefront demo a run, hoping I could find a game that will take my attention well enough in-hand until the games I'm hyped for are released.

I loaded the game up on Steam. Menu screen comes up, that's when I noticed the drop in frame rate.

It wasn't like a parapalegic slideshow dropoff, I could still navigate the menu well enough. I changed controls and setting to my preference (higher FPS, less pretty).

No change noticed in the Menu's FPS. Not really a huge issue.

I start my first game...

Wait one, remember about 30 seconds ago I made a mention of crippled graphics?

The first day of the PC version of Black Ops (at its WORST) can't come close to the horrible optimization of the Homefront Demo.

It DOES have a handy little FPS monitor, however. Upon loading that, I came to see how bad it really was.

I will say this: I have seen better optimized graphics on games that originally sold on 5.25' floppies for the Tandy 2000.

My computer isn't horrible, at worst, it's a little out of date. But I would receive anywhere from 1-20-45 fps at any given millisecond.

It was as if my Geforce 9800 GTX @ 1gb was rolling dice with my GODDAMNED patience along with the frames.

I am not a patient person for someone/something not worth my patience to begin with. If I want cereal for breakfast, and I have no milk, I will, more often than not, drive 2 minutes to the store to buy some.

Why? Because my Fruity-fucking-Pebbles are worth dealing with the Idiot of the Day in charge of my morning meal's required material.

Homefront was not even close to that example. After dealing with the issues of "maybe its me, not the game", I simply uninstalled the Demo.

Smiley Rating of:

[[ODG]Lunch Meat]

I play the PC version and reviewed the 360 version. I like it, BUT the jury is split nearly down the middle on this one. About half of the folks hate it, about half love it. Sucks the studio shut down, so now it leaves the question about patches and DLC.

I haven't noticed the issues with the game on the full version, but again, like I said half of the folks who try it do not like it.

[Edwards]

I can assume that the full version of Homefront is better optimized, as my review is based off of the Demo, not the retail version.

Just had to get that out in the air so no assumptions are made that my review is against the full game.

[ThreeSix]

i've changed opinions on this game several times. on release i liked it, then after a few days (once the hackers took over) i hated it. that lasted for a few weeks until they patched it a few times, which i initially didnt like. but once i played it more it grew on me, now i i play it a few times a week, usually when i need a break from BF.

the framerates have been an issue. they were horrible for awhile until they patched it. they were smooth for a couple weeks, but for some reason since the new DLC, they've gone down and gotten choppy again.

speaking of the DLC, it's impossible to find a server that actually has it and when you do it's only half full. kinda sucks because they're good maps

[Edwards]

Kaos recently was shutdown and canabalized into other places.

Don't expect anything new to happen with Homefront.

It's essentially a modern day version of Frontlines: Fuel of War, anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontlines:_Fuel_of_War

Oh, look. It's made by Kaos. How quaint.