Molotov cocktails are particularly useful in the early hours of the game, so be sure to craft those whenever you can. Once you’ve gathered enough materials, be sure to check your weapon wheel and see if there are any items you can craft on the spot. Brady isn’t a very tanky character, so looting these areas is always worthwhile, as you never know when you’ll chance upon a health kit. For instance, tapping the interact button next to a couch will allow you to search the cushions, while interacting with cabinets will allow you to open the drawers and check them. Not only that, you can also interact with the furniture around you. If you move close to them, you should receive a button prompt that allows you to scavenge materials and other worthwhile items. Whenever you’re in a building, keep a look out for shiny, silver items just laying around. Regardless of the weirdness of the story premise, the appeal of this kind of game lies in taking the western world, then seeing it vicariously laid to waste and rise from the ashes.This isn’t very relevant until you’ve gotten a few hours into Homefront: The Revolution. Homefront: the Revolution promises a sense of unease as you explore an American city rendered unfamiliar and eerie by occupation, and the prospect of a long single player campaign where resistance activities like sabotage and assassination raise the profile and membership of the resistance movement itself, turning the tide against the occupying KPA. How seriously you take all this may depend on exactly where in the world you’re sitting. It’s also either deeply ironic or completely tone-deaf to cast America as the plucky oppressed underdog with ragtag freedom fighters striking trying to drive out a far more powerful, drone-supported force of ‘peace-keepers’ sent in to stabilise a failed state. While a repressive regime like North Korea is a legitimate target for criticism, the storyline is also uncomfortably reminiscent of 90s paranoia about rising Asian economies in films and books like Rising Sun, as well as older cliches about invasion from the East. Homefront: The Revolution takes place in 2029 in an alternate timeline, following the protagonist Ethan Brady as he joins a resistance movement against the army of. Homefront: the Revolution’s storyline is a hot mess of first world anxiety, with the USA brought low by a North Korean regime that sold America high tech weapons then switched them off. Homefront: The Revolution is a first-person shooter video game developed by Dambuster Studios.The game was published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in May 2016.
A PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold account is required for console multiplayer.ĭambuster have described the single player campaign as having over 30 hours of play, dependent on ability, and the co-op missions and free DLC should add many more hours after release. Downloadable content, both paid and free, will be available over the year following the game’s release and in-game items can be purchased using real money. More expensive special editions include an expansion pass for downloadable content and collectibles like a model and art book.
Homefront the Revolution is available for PS4, XBox One and PC for around £40 or $60. America is controlled by the Korean People’s Army and the player takes the role of Ethan Brady, who joins the resistance and the struggle to liberate the city from the KPA.ĭambuster Studios is a British developer formed by publisher Deep Silver to develop Homefront: the Revolution from mainly ex-staff of Free Radical Design, known for the Timesplitters series. Homefront: the Revolution is set in Philadelphia, USA in 2029. The game dialogue uses the words ‘fuck’ and ‘motherfucker’. The Games Rating Authority expand on its PEGI details by saying that the game opens with two fellow resistance members being executed by being tied to chairs then ‘shot in the head’ and ‘hit around the head several times with a hammer, killing him bloodily’. In the UK and Europe, PEGI rates Homefront: The Revolution PEGI 18, suitable for adults only, due to violence against vulnerable and defenceless people and strong language.
Homefront: The Revolution’s setting of a broken-down US city draws comparisons to the recent The Division, although the mission-based campaign in a large open world is reminiscent of Dying Light.
As well as a single player campaign the game also has a four-player online cooperative multiplayer ‘Resistance’ mode. The game is played from a first person perspective and is set in an open world version of Philadelphia, which under occupation is divided into three zones. Homefront the Revolution is a shooting game set in an alternative future where North Korea has invaded America. I read some bad reviews at launch, so I pretty much wrote.
In collaboration with the Games Rating Authority, here’s our parent’s guide to Homefront: The Revolution, PEGI 18. I am surprised by Homefront: The Revolution - its a surprisingly good mix of FarCry 3 and STALKER.