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@Viscerus

Only a fool would confuse a legitimately good game like MW2 with a pathetic second rate COD knock off like Homefront.

Every single idea in both singleplayer and multiplayer has been done 5 years before by either COD, Battlefield or both. It's a joke. If the developers are "hard working" it must have been working hard at copying and pasting.

@V3R1TAS

Completely wrong, Veritas. Only a fool would espouse such anti-logic.

Everything is relative. Games are reviewed relative to other games. Cars are reviewed relative to other cars.

Homefront is a shitty FPS that would have been uninspired and pathetic even if it came out in 2005. Since we've had great shooters since then, it is even worse today. Standards improve over time.

@Maximo

Yeah, the reviews are so 'average' they dropped THQ's stock price 25% when they were revealed.

Homefront was hyped as a top quality game, which is most clearly is not .( and obviously never was, the previews showed that it looked like a shitty BF knockoff made in 2006)

@Mehbah

I've played video games for 16 years, and I've only played two or three bad games in that time.

Explain to me why I should bother with a 7/10 title when I've been playing only 9.5/10 titles for 16 years.

@Fuzunga

The Big Daddy was an awesome creation that fit the underwater theme because it resembled one of those old school diving suits.

This thing just looks like some weird steampunk thing from that shitty Wild Wild West movie.

@XQMKY

It IS trying, according to the developers.

But there can be no doubt it is failing miserably. Just a way to cash in on a current conflict to try to make it seem "edgier" and "more realistic" to the 12 year olds out there who have no clue what the real thing is like.

@sammo21

First off, helicopters often fly EXTREMELY low to avoid detection and have cover from enemy projectiles. It's called "nape of the earth" (NOE) flight and involves flying behind trees, shrubs, small hills, etc.

Secondly, MOH is not any more realistic than COD. They are both stupidly unrealistic. Arguing about which one is more realistic is like arguing about which Bond movie is more realistic.

Only Call of Duty 4 had any practical storyline. MOH has a storyline based on an actual conflict of course, except that the portrayal is still pathetic and hackneyed, and disrespectful to soldiers actually serving in the hellhole known as Afghanistan.

@sammo21

If this is "more realistic", I'd like to see what is "less realistic." Halo Reach?

Just take one look at those uncanny valley character models. At least in COD they look something like living human beings, not possessed mannequins.

Oh, and any game that has the audacity to portray a current conflict as its virtual shooting ground and let one side be virtual Taliban or insurgents trying to kill virtual Canadian or American soldiers, when said soldiers are actually dying day to day over there, is extremely callous and not something that will ever be supported by me.

Strictly as a game, this is a huge drop down in quality for DICE. Let's see if they can make Battlefield about epic maps and tons of vehicles again, not just a watered down MW2 rip off like BFB2 was.

@(Unverified)

Games and other mediums generally don't portray aggressors as the heroes.

Go ask China and the rest of southeast Asia what they think of the Japanese. They still have a deep loathing for the Japanese, more than 60 years after the atrocities were committed.

@eudaimo

The difference is that they don't portray current conflicts.

A game where you went around assassinating incumbent political leaders wouldn't be tolerated. A game where you went around trying to assassinate political leaders from WWII would be fine.

Time actually makes a difference! Crazy eh.