There’s something fascinating about seeing two attempts at creating a game franchise fail so miserably as it happened with Homefront. I can understand why the publishers thought there was potential here – a franchise of FPS titles built around an idea of war happening on US soil. It could be provocative and novel and independently of quality of the end product guarantee to cause at least some uproar and publicity, positive or not. And its not like the attempts were the same, they tried approaching the same basic idea from rather different perspectives. Yet, both of them are very much not good and not worth playing at all.
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