THQ claims 375K day-one Homefront sales

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  Summary: Despite an embattled launch, THQ is claiming fairly impressive day-one sales for Homefront. The ... : SporkyReeve
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    And 300k of those copies completed the single player campaign in the first 5 hours. : YerMothah
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      And then went on to play the multiplayer which by all accounts, is pretty good? : Haxim
      • That is the word on the Intarwebs. : morsxcessum
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        Not to sound extremely critical here, but I'd be really interested in knowing who actually thinks Homefro... : lectR
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          having not played it I'd just note that map uniqueness is at best the only one of your knocks that fundam... : derelict515
          • One shot sniper kills with thermal scopes and every automatic weapon feels the same when you put a red do... : Cashh
        • Get out of my head ! Im not sure about the limited number of people but you nailed everything else. : Cashh
        • ^^^^not extremely critical : watcherxp
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          but it actually feels like an alpha version of a game from 2001. When people use hyperbole like this abou... : ColoradoCNC
          • Having played their previous game in MP (which was hyped up as "the next BF2"), it would not surprise me.... : kill9
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          I think it's good. Graphics look fine to me, not sure what you mean with that one, perhaps you don't have... : u sir name
          • Agreed, really enjoying the game here : watcherxp
          • People bitch about sequels and when a new IP comes out they bitch about that as well. This is why publ... : Derringer
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      and this is intrinsically bad? : derelict515
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        Yes, yes it is. : ajvitaly
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          I don't understand that sentiment? Were you guys crying about all the CoD games being insanely short? The... : AgentPothead
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            except Homefront's entire marketing was about the Koreans taking over the US. considering it's a story th... : zerog83
            • and it's short enough that I've decided not to purchase the game at all. : zerog83
        • why? If Homefront had the best SP ever people wouldn't knock the length and say "it was the greatest SP e... : derelict515
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          I haven't seen that many people talk about the quality of the campaign but instead of focusing the length... : ghost in my shell
          • was too short to determine the quality =p : mobab
          • The campaign started off really boring and generic, but it picked up and the last mission was pretty cool... : Proven28
        • No, no it isn't. Not all of us have time to sit down and spend 20-30 hours playing a shooter game between... : ColoradoCNC
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        That's awfully short, yes. : Freon
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          So it is intrinsically bad? If I guaranteed HL3 would be the best SP FPS ever but would only be 5 hours y... : derelict515
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            Yes it is intrinsically bad. 5 hours is just too short. I don't see HL3 being only 5 hours or less i... : Freon
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              So what's your cut off? Will HL3 be good if it's only 6.5 hours? Or does it need to hit 8? Or is anything... : derelict515
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                You're the one bringing in the idea of cut off to the discussion. Why don't you tell me? : Freon
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                  No I'm not, you're telling me 5 hours is too short, I've been the one arguing the hour count is a silly m... : derelict515
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                    I'm just jumping into this now, but I say that 5 hours is what the bare minimum should be. But the catch ... : Cateroth
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                      Absolutely, I'm totally on board with that. As I mentioned before, there's this misguided logic that if a... : derelict515
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                        Well games are more expensive and there are many different types of games where most movies are 1.5-3 hou... : Lucy Labia
                        • Of course. What I meant was the forcing function in movies to keep the length reasonable has probably hel... : derelict515
      • Personally, I think the SP is as short and forgettable as CODBLOPS The MP is better than COSBLOPS bu... : watcherxp
    • 5hrs?? I beat it in 3 : godm0de
• Not sure about this game (Multiplayer) anyways -- something feels off. I don't know if it's that I can't ... : meoff
• This is just Frontlines: Fuel of War with a new skin on every thing how it sold that many units is shocki... : Twin--Sword
• 5 hrs? Release platform iphone. : massdev
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  Since people either love it or hate it, I decided to rent it to try it out. They have a multi-player cod... : WadeMcLain
  • Actually it lets you play to level five but you can't level past that cap. : OutlawSundown
  • I rented it and was playing multiplayer last night. You just can't level past a certain point. : House
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  The length of the singleplayer wasn't what bothered me, so much as its lack of polish in places. Just as I'm getting into the game stuff like awful collision or terrible triggers (e.g. don't try going through open doors before your companions) or 4 year old effects (e.g. sentry tower explosion) or hilariously bad destruction textures (e.g. any destroyed vehicle) or enemies spawning right in my face as I run to the next objective that pull me back out.
  
  Don't get me wrong, it's fun, but the only memorable parts of the game are cutscenes/peripheral action involving people getting killed in brutal and heartless ways. Nothing that the player actually engages in is really intriguing. The token intense moments that are supposed to make the game are really just 30 enemies in a respawn cycle instead of the standard 20.
  
  I haven't delved into its multiplayer much yet so I can't comment on that. From what I can tell, though, it deserves the scores its been getting. Bottom line, don't buy it just for the singleplayer. Wikipedia the story if that's all you want.
  
  For the record I'm running the game with all settings maxed + dx11. It won't look any better than I've seen it.

  Mar 17, 2011 2:59pm PDT
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  The length of the singleplayer wasn't what bothered me, so much as its lack of polish in places. Just as ... : pantsburgh
  • I agree, the length didn't bother me as much as the execution of what could have been an intriguing story... : Zatric
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  I for one did not enjoy this game at all, THQ calls this game "Biggest title in the industry" (check Joy... : Batmanshack
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    AGREED. That was some fantastic advertising. I got my ass conned with that preorder. HOWEVER. I al... : Genetic Strife
    • Metro 2033 is a brilliant game, it alone is worth $50. You should pretend you bought Metro and got Home... : Memphis-Ahn
• I really doubt those numbers as all being sold to the customer. : deathofrats
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  Sell-in, not through : Maarten Goldstein
  • It's through : holinka
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  about 300k of those were tf2 hat wanters : Chandler55
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    you misspelled wankers : deathofrats
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      I still read wankers anyway. : Printmatic
      • Sames : Godhatesfatpeople
• Good, Kaos deserves some success. : cell9song
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  Man I hate this game. It's all snipers all the time, doing the recon drone thing was fun for a while but... : Liquid
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    Also, people's reaction times in short range fights are crazy, I don't get owned like this in any other g... : Liquid
    • Pretty much the game needs to be re-tuned for PC : Lucy Labia
  • The multiplayer on the PS3 is really fun... I'm actually glad I didn't get the PC version because I think... : Proven28
• That's pretty darn good for day one. I would think they'll be able to break a million units sold easy. : Dr_Cube
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  I am totally regretting my purchase at this point. I hope the MP is better. : Fred Garvin
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    MP is fun. You might as well give it a shot, right? : Rampancy
    • Yeah, or just finish the SP ans trade it. I rarely trade games, but I have a feeling no one is going to b... : Fred Garvin
• I didn't hate it. In fact, i'd say the last portion of the game was very well done. : burning eye
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  The SP is the stuff of coma inducing nightmares. The MP however, is fantastic! I'm loving every last mi... : rtricoche
  • I would love to hear how the MP is fantastic. And also what platform you're talking bout. : Liquid