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 ... : 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 minute of it and if this is a taste of what Brink may be like SIGN ME UP PLEASE!

  Mar 18, 2011 10:51am PDT
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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