Homefront: The Revolution Reviews

Homefront: The Revolution is ranked in the 5th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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Tony Luke
Top Critic
5.5 / 10.0
May 22, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution is game that starts with a lot of potential, but fails to deliver. Given time it can be easy to get used to, but the amount of bugs and framerate drops in the game can make you put it down.

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26%
Jun 23, 2016

When I look back at my pained time with Homefront: The Revolution, I can't help but shudder. I feel dirty even suggesting this game wasted its own potential; I can't be certain potential was lurking behind this shoddy façade to begin with. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever played a game as unpolished and trashy as Homefront: The Revolution.

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5 / 10
May 30, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution's development history is a troubled one, filled with financial issues, switching of studios, and team shake-ups. Considering this was a sequel already built on a faulty foundation, the signs did not bode well for this entry in the series. And indeed, the end product isn't a good one. The trouble with it is that it's not an entirely bad one either. For all the numerous faults, both on the creative and technical side, there's a good game hiding somewhere inside; a good game that simply can't overcome all the negatives weighing it down.

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3.5 / 10.0
May 22, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution was one of the worst games I've played and the open world style of play did not function well for it.

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6 / 10.0
May 24, 2016

"In a market where games such DOOM run at a mighty and smooth 60FPS, technical weakness isn't something gamers will accept or tolerate after parting with their hard earned cash. Sadly, a large percentage of paying customers will be turned off by Homefront: The Revolution's technical issues."

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Evan Norris
Top Critic
Unscored
May 22, 2016

A creative, open-ended game rich in emergent gameplay that's sadly spoiled by technical problems.

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5.6 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2016

The game world is well done but the story is poor. Repetitive missions and poor stability adds to the complaints list.

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5 / 10.0
May 23, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution started with troubled development and has obviously suffered greatly with changing teams, developers, and ultimately publishers throughout it's lifetime, an issue encountered by a great many games over the past few years. In amongst a largely broken and unoptimised game I was still able to find some fun, albeit it shortlived.

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65%
May 25, 2016

Two times wasn't the charm this time. Homefront: The Revolution is different from its predecessor, but it makes almost the same mistakes. It will find its fans anyway, because the concept of a FPS set in an open urban environment is undoubtedly attractive. Personally, however, I would appreciate if the potential third entry in the series would try a different approach.

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4 / 10
May 28, 2016

Following the original title, this is one of the most bitterly disappointing games in a long, long time. It has been practically ruined by the horrific development hell it went through and the end product is a great example as to what can happen. Every time it seems Homefront: The Revolution is about to start getting good, its mountain of ugly issues re-emerges, reminding of the frustrating mess it truly is.

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Ian Cheong
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
May 17, 2016

Despite some of its shortcomings, Homefront: The Revolution is a solid open-world FPS. It gets a lot right and if you're in the mood for liberating future America, it might just be your jam.

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May 20, 2016

I could see myself enjoying 'Homefront: Revolution' briefly in a few years when I've managed to get through everything else in my backlog, itself a tall order. It has an adequate but not quite good campaign, easily skippable co-op, and some serious engine problems. It's your thoroughly average shooter, in a nutshell.

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Gamers Heroes
Captain Camper
Top Critic
2 / 10
May 25, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution is a collection of good ideas ruined by a rushed release, lack of polish and hugely disappointing technical performance.

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20 / 100
May 25, 2016

Above all, the problem with Homefront: The Revolution is that it, like so many others before it, presumes that whatever freedom is is obvious and transparent, and so can simply be acquired in a transaction like any other.

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50 / 100
Jun 11, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution is ultimately plagued by far too many performance issues than should be considered acceptable. While the game shows promising flashes, it falls in the shadow of its predecessor by failing to create a memorable tale of an occupied America.

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6 / 10.0
May 22, 2016

Overall, the general story can sometime be a hit or a miss, with some scenes really drawing me further into the world while others completely disengaged me. The characters are fine and some even have unique personalities but their development is never taken very far. The protagonist (Ethan) never speaks in the game, which is something that I'm generally not much of a fan of since it disengages me from the story in my personal experiences. There are often moments that  seem very much like 1984's Red Dawn or 2012's film of the same name, both of which I'm a fan of and I feel that there was a lot of potential that wasn't fully realized in the finished game.

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5.5 / 10.0
May 19, 2016

Is Homefront: The Revolution the worst thing I have ever played? No, in fact it was far from it. However, the fact still remains that the end product is a mediocre interpretation of what could have been, and by all accounts should have been, something far more enjoyable. Compound these failings with an uninspired, borderline laughable narrative and the end product is something that I cannot, in good faith, recommend to anyone. Consider this your warning shot. Retreat while you still can!

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6 / 10.0
May 23, 2016

Much like the internal woes that befell titles such as Duke Nukem Forever, it is unknown if Homefront: The Revolution would have benefitted from some stability behind the scenes. What is known is that the result is a title with some potential that was never fully realized for one reason or another. The idea of running guerrilla-style missions and liberating areas in an open Philadelphia may not be new, but it remains appealing. The missions, however, are rather monotonous, and the game drags on due to the lack of a solid story and characters backing it up. The multiplayer meets the same fate, since the co-op experience is dulled by a lack of level variety. Coupled with a number of bugs and other technical issues, it's difficult to enjoy The Revolution since the beginning of the year was unusually crowded with quality titles.

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2 / 10
Jun 12, 2016

Homefront: The Revolution has bigger problems than its myriad of technical issues. Sure, the constantly freezing of the game to save is jarring, and the game as a whole is largely unpolished, but even when everything works it just isn't captivating in any way. Pass this up.

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GameGrin
The_Apothecary
Top Critic
4 / 10.0
Jun 1, 2016

Poor AI severely limits the immersion of the game, rather sadistic and somewhat irritating main characters don't make it any easier to play either.

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