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Platform : Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7 |
Rated: Mature
| DRM: Steam
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
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A once proud America has fallen, her infrastructure shattered and military in disarray. Crippled by a devastating EMP strike, the USA is powerless to resist the ever expanding occupation of a savage, nuclear armed Greater Korean Republic.

Abandoned by her former allies, the United States is a bleak landscape of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. This is a police state where high school stadiums have become detention centers, and shopping malls shelter armored attack vehicles. A once-free people are now prisoners… or collaborators… or revolutionaries.

Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an overwhelming military force in Homefront’s gripping single player campaign penned by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn). Stand alongside a cast of memorable characters as an emotional plot unfolds in this terrifyingly plausible near-future world. Experience visceral, cinematic first-person shooter action as you fight your way across Occupied USA using guerrilla tactics, and commandeer military vehicles and advanced drone technology to defeat the enemy.

Multiplayer brings epic warfare to the online arena as infantry, tanks, attack helicopters and combat drones battle across huge, open battlefields. A rich feature set offering layers of tactical depth combined with a game-changing innovation in the multiplayer space will set a new benchmark in online warfare.

  • Discover a terrifyingly plausible near-future world - the familiar has become alien in this nightmare vision of Occupied USA
  • Fight for a cause - join a cast of memorable characters as your resistance cell wages a guerrilla war against overwhelming military odds in the name of Freedom
  • Witness the human cost of war - a gripping story from the pen of John Milius is told through immersive, interactive 1st person cut scenes
  • Experience explosive FPS gameplay - battle through a dynamic mix of infantry and vehicle combat in a gripping single player campaign boasting intense, memorable set piece
  • Take the battle online - experience large scale multiplayer action like never before in epic infantry and vehicle warfare

System Requirements
Minimum Specifications: Recommended Specifications: OS: Win 7, Vista and XP Processor: Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz Intel or AMD Quad Core 2 GHz+ CPU RAM: 2GB 2GB RAM or higher (XP, Vista, Windows 7) Hard Drive: 10 GB Video Card: Shader Model 3.0 graphics card with 256MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS or ATI Radeon 1900XT 3D Compatible NVIDIA GeForce 480/570 Series GPU, NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit
Installation Note
Requires online Steam account for installation and online play.

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boogers
5.0 out of 5 stars Love the game. Special steps needed for install
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
I first bought this game when it was released and spent many hours playing with friends. Now my son is gettIng older and into FPS games. Game is great but the reason for the review is because of the installation issues I had when I bought the disk version for him. (Cheaper than buying off Steam)

Game wouldn’t install from disk (some error about invalid disk) and I was stuck trying to find a solution. Since it is a Steam game I finally figured out that you can manually activate the product key in Steam under the games menu. Then it allowed me to download the game. Took me a few hours of tooling around to figure this out. Hopefully this will save someone time in the future.
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Martin Melnichak
4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad... not great, but not bad...
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2011
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
Single Player: Short... nothing much can be said about it other than that. Without giving away anything, it could have been longer in the end, as it did, well, end quite abruptly. But as a good point, it didnt pad along, everything was kept at a constant pace.. unless we are talking doors... if you dont know what I mean, just watch a bit of a play through, and you will see.

Multiplayer: This was possibly the best part of the game. I cant understand where people get the idea its a COD knock-off. Really, its more of a copy of Battlefield. The maps are few, but they do offer a good mix of close combat and long range encounters on most maps. The maps themselves come in two forms, TDM maps are small than the GC forms, but are still the same areas. There are two game-modes Team Deathmatch (TDM), and Ground Control (GC), which is the same as capture the hill, but with three points to hold, and when you succeed and win a round the battle will shift to a new location on the map. There is also Battle Commander (this comes as both TDM and GC), which functions by giving you bonuses for getting "killstreaks" (which in this case is killing multiple enemy players without dying.) Unlike in COD, you instead get bonuses, like damage and health power-ups allowing you to pro-long your kill streak. But the higher your kill streak, the more enemy players will come after you.

Overall, a decent MP game, but thats about it.
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Over50
1.0 out of 5 stars Retail DVD purchase is really buying a subscription to play the game thru Steam
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2011
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
I'm a single player mode only gamer. I bought this game through Amazon based on trailers I'd seen and a couple of game mag reviews. BUT unlike every other RETAIL purchased game I have that requires a Steam registration to play (as stated on the DVD wrapper), the Homefront publisher goes far beyond this - and no advisement or other statement - where the game installs directly to Steam's game file storage - NOT ON YOUR HD. The only files installed on your computer are the game's Steam related access and security/permissions files. If you use a magnifying glass you'll find buried in the fine print and half obliterated by the DVD wrapper graphics in the lower right corner the statement you are purchasing a subscription to play the game. As such you can't access the .cfg files to halt the intro graphics or other common game .cfg file changes. Point being if you lose your Internet connection you will not be able to play in single player mode even if you have previously selected "Offline" mode with Steam because Steam checks to make sure you still want to play offline.

As if this wasn't bad enough, while the game installation was a relatively short under 20 minutes at my 2.6 MBps download speed, when it completed it then automatically began downloading the patch files - 99% for multiplayer - which I didn't want or need. I was never presented an option not to download the updates. So there I sat for an additional nearly 40 minutes for the update download - over twice as long as the game install took.

Once I got to the game itself, I found discrepencies with the stated console ported PC controls - such as the #4 key that is used to target enemy vehicles or other targets for attack - is not listed in the game manual. I eventually found the #4 key by mashing every key in succession. Once I got to where you fly the attack helicopter the stated ascend and descend manual default listed keys didn't work nor when I remapped the keys. Through dumb luck I found out the game was detecting my CH USB joystick elevator control. As such I had to unplug my joystick to gain keyboard key ascend and descent funtion.

Last, the game uses auto save points and even on the lowest difficulty setting all but the those with the fastest twitch reflexes will be repeating the same sequences time and again because of getting taken out by grenades that some how find you taking cover behind a shed or building with no enemy in sight. Bottom line, forget about using stategy or planning your moves or you'll die regularly. The best thing I found is to keep moving and hiding and moving and hiding and moving and hiding to get as close to the next checkpoint position .... and this isn't a sure thing either.

Bottom line, if you're a single mode player and don't mind having a retail purchased game really being a paid subscription to access the installed game files on Steams website, limited installs, screwed up and non-identified console to PC keyboard game controls, auto-save points and a high game play frustration tolerance, then Homefront is for you.
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who dresses you
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok but . . . meh
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2012
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
Yes it's an awfully short single player campaign (and a hoggish 13 GB it eats out of your hard drive for the cheapinsky 7 missions you get I might add) Thank goodness I didn't pay full price. Let's move on.

Homefront loaded without any problems off Steam and also installed easily on my laptop. No problems there. I know a lot of people hate Steam but I've had pretty good luck with it. I just dislike not being able to sell a used game I no longer want but that's life in DRM-world these days. My system struggled a little with this game and frequently lagged but not enough to make playing a chore. There was an odd silver sheen to a lot of the images that I couldn't tone down with lower settings. Well, at least it didn't crash. The graphics were good overall.

Gameplay was OK but nothing new here. The cutscenes were supposed to instill some rah-rah 'America against the evil Koreans' but I found all this unnecessarily grim. Couldn't get into the characters. Weak and predicable voice acting, too much "Reloading! Give me covering fire!" filler. Mostly what you do is chase after Conner and Rianna and some shiney Korean good guy (who all appear to be unkillable)then you get a battle, then you follow them some more, then you get a battle, rinse and repeat. Extremely linear and a LOT of hand-holding. (Enemy objectives are thoughtfully pointed out with 'eliminate' overtop them just in case you weren't sure) Mission six was the best -- you're in a helicopter protecting your (still unkillable) pals in a convoy. Not bad but again nothing we haven't seen in other games that have come out earlier. I don't require a game to always have NEW AND NEVER SEEN BEFORE!! tricks but this one was just an over-hyped pile of uninteresting.

Worth a try if you don't pay more than eight bucks while you wait for better games to go down in price.
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