Yeah the fact he never finished the game and called another game better due to frame rate this guy needs everything 60fps or the company doesn't know what they're doing
Totally agree, this game is really stunning, not Uncharted or Battlefield, but definetly looks good! I think people say this because they expect every game to be like Witcher 3, Uncharted, PS4 exclusives, and Ubisoft titles! And they say it runs on Crytek, Crysis series is one of the best looking series made, but i think the complains are at bugs, repetivity, and poor face animations
The animations are janky and weird Models are weird and clunky (if you hide in one of those trashcans for example, after turning your head you will see your fucking body without a head While the engine is good looking the game always feels kinda low budget
The stupid shits must have a bad TV or be playing it on a pre-gen console then just hating on the game. I hate misguided hatred, it's the WORST in gaming!
While it's no Uncharted or Battlefield, it does look better than every Xbox 360 game ever made as it should, so people saying the graphics are bad are full of bs straight up. Every game has glitches, they used to be fun on PS2 so why do we care about a minor hiccup every now and then these days? "Oh I turned my head, and now my players body is headless! Oh no! Lmao 😂" that's how that would go for me. It's just goofy. I mean as long as the mechanics work and the gunplay is smooth, it's not even close to bad. Battlefield 2042 on the other hand, yeah that sucked for a while because everything was broken.
Well at least Jim Sterling was honest about giving up on the game. I remember back in 2010 the film critic for the daily mail claimed to have walked out in disgust halfway through Kick-Ass and then proceeded to complain about the film's ending.
It also implies that being unable to bear slogging through the rest of a game and giving up entirely isn't still a legit form. Of feedback. As long as its consistent unlike that kick ass review then it's fine
I bought this game in 2019 and had a genuinely good time with it. Yeah, it's your typical open-world Far Cry clone, but what makes this one special is detailed level design and a guerilla feeling. The difficulty is designed for a hit'n'run playstyle, you wanna plan your attacks and get out of a battlefield as soon as possible. The game looks beautiful at night and does some real wonders with lighting. There are still bugs and glitches, but I've never encountered anything game-breaking and it still seems more polished than your average Bethesda/EA release. If they'd given it another year in the oven, it would've been great. You can see the passion the devs had for this game and the ambition they sadly couldn't achieve due to the production hell they went through.
I just started playing this after it set on my Steam library for a few years and I gotta say it's genuinely annoying. It comes after 10 or so minutes of cutscenes and basically no interaction from you, just other characters slowly discussing oh wowie kazowie we almost killed you lololol, just felt a little time waste-y. Aside from that, I really don't see the hate people shovel on it, looks great, plays fine, tried and true formula :D
It definitely was intentional. Because in the Aftermath Expansion Dlc you get reprimanded for speaking up with actual voiced diologue. Pretty cool attention to detail actually rarely seen in most games.
@@omnwaf2182 problem is put silent protagonist in a wrong game .. or put voiced protagonist in Role Playing games where they put 3 options of stupid lines..
well,in dlcs our character actually speaks and in the very first one where he reprises his appearance,one of the leaders responds with something like "Liked you more when your mouth was shut and you just followed orders."
hey this game is on sale for 12 bucks, I want to just shoot stuff, loot and craft weapons. Will this work for me? I don't give a SHIT! about story or characters. I've already finished games like DOOM, Brutal DOOM, Wolfenstein (all of them) Bulletstorm, a ton of games you've reviewed.
[OD]Maggy The problem is that movie licensed games are mostly rushed out the door in order to be released around the same time as the movie it's advertising with less than a year of development time.
Seriously, this silent protagonist thing is ridiculous is shooters like this. You literally have people calling you, or interrogating you, talking to you, and your character sits there like a mute.
This is exactly why gggmanlives is a better reviewer than what people at ign and GameSpot have. Coz the game is just generic as hell doesn't make it the worst game ever. I felt the same way about games like Lost Planet 3, Alien Rage etc. They all were good games but were treated as bad games only due to being generic or repetitive. Then no far cry or assassin's Creed should be rated high either. I like all these games but I understand why they all should be scored below 8.5 for these reasons, but a flat 5 or 6 is a fat lie.
5/10 isn't the worst game ever, it's mediocre, which this game is. On the other hand, giving it a 1/10, like Jim Sterling did in the review mentioned in the video, is just stupid. And this is the same guy who gave Fallout 4, that simplified Borderlands clone filled with bugs and repetitive quests, a 10/10.
Honestly, this game seemed more appealing than any recent CoD. The animation looks smooth and satisfying, the game looks pretty nice, the whole zone system seems at least a little unique, and the customization of your weapons is pretty neat. It's certainly nothing to write home about, but I have no idea how someone could give it less than a 5 or 6 out of 10.
Finally a sensible review. Honestly, it boggles my mind the bad reviews people are giving this game. It looks pretty much like any other shooter, but with a more interesting open world and better graphics than most. It definitely looks like a bargain bin game, but the people who are calling it one of the worst ever are ridiculous.
It's like people forgot that Ride to Hell: Retribution or Alien: Colonial Marines exist. Those games are much worse than this. The main fault of this game is that it is dull as hell.
Thank you for being honest and not jumping on the hate bandwagon. This game really is just mediocre/generic through and through. When I heard people saying its the worst game they have ever played, I was dumbfounded. I guess people have really short term memory anymore cause I can think of tons of games way worse than this. Your doing so many videos lately, take a break and go get a reuben you deserve it!
Review from 2019: Compare to other crappier games that are released during these three years, it's actually not that bad. Plus alot of the thing are patches so I played it without problem
Bovin Lee Phann Yeah, to put it in very basic terms I guess Idk I just feel like this analogy falls apart after looking into what both games truly offer (FC2 has all these mechanics to make your feel small and oppressed, like guns jamming and cars breaking down, and Homefront has... Cool weapon customization? I guess?)
congrats on 50000 subs man! You totally deserve it. Your reviews are amazing and contains way more info about the game then ign and gamespot. Keep going and good luck in the future!
Yeah, this is actually a decent game(if not experiencing bugs)no matter how mediocre it is. The people saying this is the worst game ever clearly haven't touched Big Rigs Racing. I do like that weapon switching mechanic though, would love to see that implemented in other games.
I ended up getting this game new on ebay for cheap. Ended up really liking the game. The shooting feels fine, the weapon transformation mechanic is neat and overall just a fun game to kill time with. Could it have been better? Yes but there is far worse out there tham this game.
I played through that game last year and I still appreciate how realistic the nighttime darkness was, to the point where I started taking screenshots of all the places I saw that made me go "woah"
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Looks very good, and the weapon customization is pretty badass, with the on-the-go disassembly and re-assembly.
The base game was alright and i completely agree with all your points, but what was a shock to me about this game is that the story DLC really fixed the story and gameplay, and made the main character talk, which really improved the game im not kidding 😅 but overall i didn't hate the game, i brought it when it was on sale for cheap and treated it as an achievement farm 😅
The first minute of this video says it all. Glad to be your subscriber for the sake of reviews besides AngryJoe. Love your impartial reviews delivered in a sweet Aussie voice..... I will make sure i will give this game a try if i could lay my hands on it in a discount sale.... Thanks.... :)
Eh, if you check Eurogamer for example, you'll see that certain journos are particularly angry because bad guys are Communist Asians and because resistance members are calling them "Norks"... not even kidding, it is apparently bad and racist to insult your murderous totalitarian conquerors if they're Asian and marxist. Which is why they went particularly hard on this game for same things that are often ignored in case of Ubisoft's open world stuff for example. "Your North Korean adversaries in Homefront: The Revolution are referred to as Norks. Given the more common colloquial use of that particular term, it'd be funny if it weren't so unpleasant: in Homefront: The Revolution the word Norks is used solely to refer to people from North Korea in a pejorative fashion, which is the very definition of a racial slur. I must have heard the word Norks hundreds of times during my playthrough and every instance was more painful than the last." From EG review. My mate who played the game says that you can hear Black and Asian american NPCs using same slur, it being aimed at hated conquerors, but EG avoids mentioning this as do other sites that whined about supposed racism and offensive politics.
A tyrannical, authoritarian autocracy that employs a totalitarian caste system that goes against literally everything Marx stood for? Socialism 'from above' and socialism 'from below' is virtually the difference between a monarchy and a democracy. I suppose it's worth pointing out I'm not a Marxist myself.
love your videos because you dont stick to the general opinion.You should do a review of Call of Juarez Gunslinger.It is one of the best fps games i ever played.And on humble bundle is on sale for 1 buck
Jeeze Triple G, from when I first came on board when you had a couple thousand, to 50k. You deserve it man, and I'm glad you've always kept that original spunk that drew me to your reviews. Here's to another 50k, my good man. I'll toast a Reuben to that.
I like the orginal Homefront. I even beat it on the hardest difficulty. Twice. It's a watered-down Call of Duty commie paranoia circlejerk written by John Milius, what's there not to like? Aside from its many glaring flaws, that is.
The Avid Gamer Yeah, it reached a 7/10 for me at the time on account of the (now defunct) multiplayer, which was actually quite good. Too bad servers are down and bot matches are a thing of the past.
Supposedly that was a load of bunk. As much as it had been touted John Millius had little to do with the game in the end, and more to do with novel that came out with the game.
I saw this game for sale on the Xbox marketplace last night for $1.99, so I figured why not - and it’s probably the best game I could’ve paid for with that amount of money. I’ve never played this game or the prequel, but I’ve been a huge fan of deep silver since the first dead island, I had no idea this game was developed by them as well. Awesome review, I’m digging it so far many many years later 🔥
I liked H:TR. My only really bad gripe with it was those constant klaxon alarms when you got identified. In a way it did feel like Far Cry in a city, however I would rather capture points in H:TR. Basically because I hated climbing up those vomit inducing towers in Far Cry. Gun play was red hot in H:TR and it went on forever. The graphics were occasionally freakishly good.
Eh, I don't think a game critic is at all entitled to finish a game if they find it unplayable in one sense or another. Games aren't like movies that are done in a couple hours whether they're good or not, so quitting a bad game early is an entirely understandable position. That being said, from what I've seen of the game, Jim's rating of 1/10 isn't an objectively justifiable rating, since there are some good ideas in the game from what I've seen in the previews.
If you read his review it's obvious he barely spent any time with the game. He quit the game because of a bug, which can literally be fixed by just reloading a save file, the game autosaves every minute so you're not losing much progress. 1/10 implies a game is literally broken, which is a lie. This just an average shooting game, far from a broken game.
The original had a waaaaay better story. It was written by the guy who made Red Dawn (1984) and the only complaint I had against the story is that it was too short. I kinda want you to do a review of it just for the story alone. I would say do the online as well but after THQ went under the severs went down. Still would love to hear your review on the original game!
Markiplier. He's a billionaire literally just for pretending to be scared. AND pretending to cry twice a week about how lucky he is. Damn right, he's lucky. Some of us have to actually work for a living.
Sterling since he prides himself as a "professional reviewer" Markipler on his worst day is just a guy who shrieks on youtube and at least cares about his fans and is actually a nice guy.
At least sterling is funny some of the time. I've only ever read his reviews. But that one where he's getting sued or something for "slander" on a game he gave a terrible review for, that shit is hilarious.
I enjoyed it. Also Nork is a slang term for North Koreans. I believe it was used by American troops in the Korean War. It's like calling Germans Krauts or Brits Tommies.
Jim Sterling's Jimquisitions are worth watching, but his [everything else] is mostly masturbatory. I do appreciate the amount of effort you put into your own videos, and the sheer volume of your content
You are the man, a serius and perfect review made by a professional, and not just a "gimmick review" to catch views and likes. Seriusely, you are the only reviewer I trust :)
Intergalactic Human Empire they are there, I got stuck inside walls several times during play. If you are planning to get the gamw, dont do it. It is entirely forgettable, and for a large part just really really bland and boring.
@@nocooldudes7614 yeah totally playable except for the massive framerates issue that is still there and they missed a few dozen bugs and they forgot to fix the shit story but besides that they really fixed it.
If saying this is the worst game ever made, let me just let pop in some fucking Aliens Colonel Marines,, Ride To Hell, every single Unity based zombie shooter ever released onto Early access, every single wave based unity game to ever be released onto Early Access, games by Digital Suicide, Driver 3, and all the games AVGN reviewed for the past 18 years, THEN we can talk about bad video games..
+Павел Мастрюков Yeah but it's so implausible. They can barely sustain their own countries economy let alone leading a massive scale invasion on America without any of America's allies intervening. Just a really unrealistic scenario in comparison to other enemy types they could have gone with.
Well, the first game in the series explained things a bit better. This is an alternate future where North and South Korea are united again. The idea being that somehow the South Korean money and tech got blended up with the North Korean totalitarianism. The end result was a new, scary world superpower that grew over decades. THEN you can take the scenario of THIS game (the sequel to the previous game) and see that it makes more sense. However. They have decided all of a sudden to rename the bad guys as "Norks" and have ignored the cool "fake" history from the first game. So yeah, they had a good idea for the story of the first game (even if far fetched, it was a "cool" what if if you like military fiction/scenarios) and then had some decent additional concepts for this game, but it seems they decided to keep things as simple as possible, thus hurting the quality of the overall lore concept. Hope I made some sense. :)
+The Weekend Slice You made perfect sense dude, but even with the first game the whole idea of the two Koreas reuniting was dumb. I mean they're mortal enemies that have been fighting for decades that decide to join together for other reason than to take down the US, when the South is backed by the US economically? On top of that, the UN not even noticing? You could argue that it was alternate timelines but the bottom line is that it doesn't make any of the scenarios in either game any less plausible. The mere idea of having North Korea as a massive military superpower is shut down when you consider how fucked they'd be if they actually got into a war with the US and its allies. Yes, russians and the Chinese are cliche villians in military shooters, but the reason they're used so often is because its far more of a plausible scenario, despite how tired it is. But yeah, I see what you're saying dude. Personally, I agree with Gggman. The enemy of this game should have been Skynet. XD
I got this game for like 2 or 3$ on xbox 1 when it was on sale. Yes it's extremely generic and neutral, but not all games need to innovate. Even though most if not all of the games mechanics were done before multiple times, the game manages to pull them off just fine. And that's probably the best way I can describe the game. "JUST FINE" I enjoyed playing it. And if you get it on sale for cheap, it will more then justify the money spent. It's generic schlock at it's best(or maybe at it's nutralest?)
It's a laughable concept with lackluster game design just like the first game. I find it laughable that they were under delusion that anybody wanted a sequel for it.
Second video in a row with some sort of namedropping in a negative way...Stay classy because i find this very annoying and if this is going to be something that is in most of your videos then i'll just unsubscribe...Nothing wrong with calling people out on bullshit but in this case they actually had solid reasons for the disliking of the game.
A Terminator game, that was exactly what I was thinking when I saw the trailer for this game. I would want an open world game set in the Terminator future, being a Techcom soldier or maybe even a reprogramed T-800, destroying Skynet camps FarCry style, taking side quests from guys like Kyle Reese, John Connor etc. Fighting in guerrilla warfare, exploring the post-Judgement Day wasteland, hiding in the ruins from HK's by using stealth mechanics. That's a dream terminator game.
I'm glad to see that some other people enjoyed this game. I remember getting it for ps4 and the frame rate was SO bad, I gave up, for about a week... but the story and setting stuck with me so I went back and played through the whole story and a lot of side content, and really liked it.
Glad to see honest independent reviewers like you. I figured it was a generic game and not 'the worst game ever' others have said so thanks for clearing that up.
0:24 I've played original game and I like open world shooters, so I was actually exited for Homefront 2. Original Homefront actually sold decent amount of copies.
Hey gggman, the first story DLC for this game called "Voice of Freedom" has been released. Can you please take a look at it? From what I've seen, it looks like an improvement from the main game.
Wonder if you got access to Hard Reset Redux and make a review of it. Might be nice to see how it changed. Hmm yeah Homefront. Great visual and presentation. Middle Class Games are not bad, but I know the feeling one got in his stomach too well when playing such a game.
Actually I played the original Homefront and I really enjoyed it. Sure, it was average, but I absolutely loved it. Even a year ago when I played it on Steam, it had populated servers. I'm going to try and see if it's still active this weekend.
Same, it's everything wrong with current fps games, but somehow I enjoyed it. I liked the story (somehow). I don't know how to explain why I enjoyed it, because every other game that has done the same thing, I absolutely hated.
Funny that you said it would make a great terminator game. Because I just watched your review of that new terminator shooter, and I actually said that it looked almost identical to this, in terms of the mechanics, the look, the feel and the aesthetic.
I had lots of issues with H:TR. First was how hard it was in a new map, until you took an area or building. Then I had sound problems from about fifteen hours in. Then at twenty-four hours, it was game over because it crashed on a save, and I could not play on. ...However H:TR was fully satisfying. Like the reviewer says in this video, it looks like a futuristic game. For me that was one of its strong points. I loved being in it. Quite regularly, the lighting and graphics were top class. ..Secondly, the weapons rocked....I got on fine with the story....I was gutted when it came to game-breaking bug close. It's pure unadulterated gun-fun.
I loved the original, but this game is unplayable. Freezes when i access a new area, freezes when i change my weapon loadout, my guns stop working for no reason, etc. One of the few games i gave up on because it gave me such a massive headache to play.
The main problems I have with this game is that the console ports were garbage and the direction the story (and thus technology and world) took. It would have been a better game if they kept with the style of the first Homefront.
Just started playing the original on an Xbox 360 and it had the same issue where enemies spawn like trout during mating season. The only way to stop this is to advance in the original. Kinda hate that mechanic to the gameplay but it does force the player to move instead of just sniping targets from a good vantage point.
OMG so many people have said those game would have been better as a terminator game and i absolutely agree! Good review as well. Captured what i felt about the game.
I was one of the weirdos that actually kinda liked the original Homefront. I don't play many FPSes so maybe that is why it being a generic one didn't phase me. I just really got enamored with the concept because it sounds really cool. I definitely want to check out the sequel sometime, sad to hear that it seems worse than the original though. You'd think with how crappy the first did they would try to work on improving things.
"If this is the worst game you've ever played then you need to play more games." That's how I felt when you said that Dying Light was the worst game of whatever year it came out. Opinions and all, but damn that opinion was the heaviest I've ever disagreed with someone. Love your videos, but JESUS you were hard on that game.
"if this is the worst game you've ever played, then you need to play more games"
lol dsp should watch this
He said what he said for clickbait and it worked.
Fuck DSP. He practically ruined the reputation of this IP and Deep Silver with that video. I *hate* dsp. Scumbag Manchild.
Yeah the fact he never finished the game and called another game better due to frame rate this guy needs everything 60fps or the company doesn't know what they're doing
Also his weapon of choice was the fucking firework gun then he complained that it wasn't good enough but never bothered to just use the assault rifle
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname No, he did not ruined it, the devs did, you Scumbag Manchild.
I fail to see how someone can call graphics like this "bad".
Not the best, but way above "ok" let alone "bad".
Totally agree, this game is really stunning, not Uncharted or Battlefield, but definetly looks good! I think people say this because they expect every game to be like Witcher 3, Uncharted, PS4 exclusives, and Ubisoft titles! And they say it runs on Crytek, Crysis series is one of the best looking series made, but i think the complains are at bugs, repetivity, and poor face animations
The animations are janky and weird
Models are weird and clunky (if you hide in one of those trashcans for example, after turning your head you will see your fucking body without a head
While the engine is good looking the game always feels kinda low budget
The stupid shits must have a bad TV or be playing it on a pre-gen console then just hating on the game. I hate misguided hatred, it's the WORST in gaming!
@@Jrdotanyou look worse then the models be quiet
While it's no Uncharted or Battlefield, it does look better than every Xbox 360 game ever made as it should, so people saying the graphics are bad are full of bs straight up. Every game has glitches, they used to be fun on PS2 so why do we care about a minor hiccup every now and then these days?
"Oh I turned my head, and now my players body is headless! Oh no! Lmao 😂" that's how that would go for me. It's just goofy. I mean as long as the mechanics work and the gunplay is smooth, it's not even close to bad. Battlefield 2042 on the other hand, yeah that sucked for a while because everything was broken.
Well at least Jim Sterling was honest about giving up on the game. I remember back in 2010 the film critic for the daily mail claimed to have walked out in disgust halfway through Kick-Ass and then proceeded to complain about the film's ending.
It also implies that being unable to bear slogging through the rest of a game and giving up entirely isn't still a legit form. Of feedback.
As long as its consistent unlike that kick ass review then it's fine
pergproductions Yeeeeaaaaaah stop trying to defend Jim Sterling. He’s a piece of shit.
Kullen64
Jim Sterling is the best
Dynamic Penguin Nice troll.
Wait, what was wrong with Kick-Ass?
I bought this game in 2019 and had a genuinely good time with it. Yeah, it's your typical open-world Far Cry clone, but what makes this one special is detailed level design and a guerilla feeling. The difficulty is designed for a hit'n'run playstyle, you wanna plan your attacks and get out of a battlefield as soon as possible. The game looks beautiful at night and does some real wonders with lighting. There are still bugs and glitches, but I've never encountered anything game-breaking and it still seems more polished than your average Bethesda/EA release. If they'd given it another year in the oven, it would've been great. You can see the passion the devs had for this game and the ambition they sadly couldn't achieve due to the production hell they went through.
The idea of a silent protagonist being killed for not speaking up is kind of brilliant. Don't think the developer did that on purpose though.
I just started playing this after it set on my Steam library for a few years and I gotta say it's genuinely annoying. It comes after 10 or so minutes of cutscenes and basically no interaction from you, just other characters slowly discussing oh wowie kazowie we almost killed you lololol, just felt a little time waste-y. Aside from that, I really don't see the hate people shovel on it, looks great, plays fine, tried and true formula :D
@@drownsinkoolaid4203 That's why i hate the silent protagonist idea
It definitely was intentional. Because in the Aftermath Expansion Dlc you get reprimanded for speaking up with actual voiced diologue. Pretty cool attention to detail actually rarely seen in most games.
@@omnwaf2182 problem is put silent protagonist in a wrong game .. or put voiced protagonist in Role Playing games where they put 3 options of stupid lines..
well,in dlcs our character actually speaks and in the very first one where he reprises his appearance,one of the leaders responds with something like "Liked you more when your mouth was shut and you just followed orders."
Congrats on this being rated the most helpful review on Steam.
Cool!
hey this game is on sale for 12 bucks, I want to just shoot stuff, loot and craft weapons. Will this work for me? I don't give a SHIT! about story or characters. I've already finished games like DOOM, Brutal DOOM, Wolfenstein (all of them) Bulletstorm, a ton of games you've reviewed.
Crytek must have a bone to pick with North Korea. They're the bad guys in every single game they've made. (To be fair, it's North Korea after all.)
Perhaps they are contracted by NATO to make simulations to train super soldiers to fight the North Koreans, using some advanced MKULTRA.
@Nightmare Vision Goggles Exactly.
:(
They arent the bad guys in FarCry 1
Maybe they want that Chinese money
damn you melted Jim sterling
funny cos he has praised him in earlier vids
I did?
Gggmanlives
didnt you praise him for calling out publisher bullshit before? i dont remember which video it was from
barfyman362
I doubt it. I'm not a big fan of his.
Yeah he did, he did praised the Jimquisition's and like you said "calling out publisher bullshit" but in the comments he was again criticising him.
A diss on Jim Sterling and DSP before even the 1 minute, mmm amazing work Sonny Jim.
No, it isn't.
@@angelshark64yes, it is cry more they both are mid 😂😂
We need a good Terminator game! Take notes developers!
Too bad. the last one (Terminator Salvation) screw everything up.
That was a movie licensed game, of course it was shit.
Rushed and made by developers who have little to no idea what they are doing
[OD]Maggy The problem is that movie licensed games are mostly rushed out the door in order to be released around the same time as the movie it's advertising with less than a year of development time.
Amen... we need a modern Future Shock game
Seriously, this silent protagonist thing is ridiculous is shooters like this. You literally have people calling you, or interrogating you, talking to you, and your character sits there like a mute.
The silent protagonist in DOOM does make more sense though
I played the original a ton! loved the multiplayer, so much so, I even bought the OnLive version!
When are we doing a collab?
Gggmanlives I'm so glad you asked sonny jim! :) I'd be up for that! :)
Let's chat on Skype?
Gggmanlives
Sure, Drop me a PM and I'll give you my username, that or just do a search for my real name on Skype :D
Not often when someone other than some Randy asks when a collab is happening.
This is exactly why gggmanlives is a better reviewer than what people at ign and GameSpot have. Coz the game is just generic as hell doesn't make it the worst game ever. I felt the same way about games like Lost Planet 3, Alien Rage etc. They all were good games but were treated as bad games only due to being generic or repetitive. Then no far cry or assassin's Creed should be rated high either. I like all these games but I understand why they all should be scored below 8.5 for these reasons, but a flat 5 or 6 is a fat lie.
Thank you ign was telling truth at the same their lying
+clone commander grey I'm sorry, can u repeat it in other words? I didn't understand u.
they gave it a 5/10 thats aint no good review
5/10 isn't the worst game ever, it's mediocre, which this game is. On the other hand, giving it a 1/10, like Jim Sterling did in the review mentioned in the video, is just stupid. And this is the same guy who gave Fallout 4, that simplified Borderlands clone filled with bugs and repetitive quests, a 10/10.
Honestly, this game seemed more appealing than any recent CoD. The animation looks smooth and satisfying, the game looks pretty nice, the whole zone system seems at least a little unique, and the customization of your weapons is pretty neat. It's certainly nothing to write home about, but I have no idea how someone could give it less than a 5 or 6 out of 10.
Finally a sensible review. Honestly, it boggles my mind the bad reviews people are giving this game. It looks pretty much like any other shooter, but with a more interesting open world and better graphics than most. It definitely looks like a bargain bin game, but the people who are calling it one of the worst ever are ridiculous.
It got better with subsequent patches for tech issues and later DLC. Worth getting if on sale.
It's like people forgot that Ride to Hell: Retribution or Alien: Colonial Marines exist. Those games are much worse than this. The main fault of this game is that it is dull as hell.
It was very fun to play fo me.
I couldn't stand Ride to hell for 10 mins! I was just like ... Clicking Exe file, start the game, WTF then quit right away!
Four years later. Well how about we compare this to fallout 76 and starwar battlefront 2 (on release)
Thank you for being honest and not jumping on the hate bandwagon. This game really is just mediocre/generic through and through. When I heard people saying its the worst game they have ever played, I was dumbfounded. I guess people have really short term memory anymore cause I can think of tons of games way worse than this. Your doing so many videos lately, take a break and go get a reuben you deserve it!
MindJack is the worst game I have ever played.
Warz is the worst game I have played.
Big rigs and ride to hell are games that I feel deserve the title of "Worst game ever".
MultiCool55
most likely yeah.
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for the Ps2 is the worst game I've ever played
Review from 2019: Compare to other crappier games that are released during these three years, it's actually not that bad. Plus alot of the thing are patches so I played it without problem
Absolutely. It's honestly kinda like Far Cry 2 - a rather repetitive open world shooter that's saved by killer atmosphere.
I actually really liked this game
Bovin Lee Phann Yeah, to put it in very basic terms I guess
Idk I just feel like this analogy falls apart after looking into what both games truly offer (FC2 has all these mechanics to make your feel small and oppressed, like guns jamming and cars breaking down, and Homefront has... Cool weapon customization? I guess?)
congrats on 50000 subs man! You totally deserve it. Your reviews are amazing and contains way more info about the game then ign and gamespot. Keep going and good luck in the future!
Thanks!
@@Gggmanlives look at you now. Almost at 600k.
Who the fuck would say that this is the worst game they ever played?
*search results include DSP*
I'm out.
Yeah, this is actually a decent game(if not experiencing bugs)no matter how mediocre it is. The people saying this is the worst game ever clearly haven't touched Big Rigs Racing.
I do like that weapon switching mechanic though, would love to see that implemented in other games.
I ended up getting this game new on ebay for cheap. Ended up really liking the game. The shooting feels fine, the weapon transformation mechanic is neat and overall just a fun game to kill time with. Could it have been better? Yes but there is far worse out there tham this game.
Finally, an honest review from a *real* gamer, and not some corporate sellout (IGN I'm looking at you). Thumb GGG.
most fluid work to date mate, very cohesive video without the usual nonsense, your format gets better every time, keep it up.
I played through that game last year and I still appreciate how realistic the nighttime darkness was, to the point where I started taking screenshots of all the places I saw that made me go "woah"
Looks very good, and the weapon customization is pretty badass, with the on-the-go disassembly and re-assembly.
The base game was alright and i completely agree with all your points, but what was a shock to me about this game is that the story DLC really fixed the story and gameplay, and made the main character talk, which really improved the game im not kidding 😅 but overall i didn't hate the game, i brought it when it was on sale for cheap and treated it as an achievement farm 😅
Gman: 6:39
A few years later: Terminator Resistance comes out.
The first minute of this video says it all. Glad to be your subscriber for the sake of reviews besides AngryJoe. Love your impartial reviews delivered in a sweet Aussie voice.....
I will make sure i will give this game a try if i could lay my hands on it in a discount sale....
Thanks.... :)
Eh, if you check Eurogamer for example, you'll see that certain journos are particularly angry because bad guys are Communist Asians and because resistance members are calling them "Norks"... not even kidding, it is apparently bad and racist to insult your murderous totalitarian conquerors if they're Asian and marxist. Which is why they went particularly hard on this game for same things that are often ignored in case of Ubisoft's open world stuff for example.
"Your North Korean adversaries in Homefront: The Revolution are referred to as Norks. Given the more common colloquial use of that particular term, it'd be funny if it weren't so unpleasant: in Homefront: The Revolution the word Norks is used solely to refer to people from North Korea in a pejorative fashion, which is the very definition of a racial slur. I must have heard the word Norks hundreds of times during my playthrough and every instance was more painful than the last."
From EG review. My mate who played the game says that you can hear Black and Asian american NPCs using same slur, it being aimed at hated conquerors, but EG avoids mentioning this as do other sites that whined about supposed racism and offensive politics.
If you think North Korea is Marxist, you're out of your goddamn mind.
@@warmlycalculated390 how would you describe an insular nation in which the state alone holds the entire means of production?
A tyrannical, authoritarian autocracy that employs a totalitarian caste system that goes against literally everything Marx stood for? Socialism 'from above' and socialism 'from below' is virtually the difference between a monarchy and a democracy. I suppose it's worth pointing out I'm not a Marxist myself.
@@warmlycalculated390 that's an incredibly verbose way of saying "but it wasn't reeeeeeeeal socialism"
Correct, just like saying Anarcho-Capitalism isn't reeeeeeeeal Anarchism. Well done.
love your videos because you dont stick to the general opinion.You should do a review of Call of Juarez Gunslinger.It is one of the best fps games i ever played.And on humble bundle is on sale for 1 buck
same. Gunslinger has the best shooting mechanics in any fps ever imho
Yeah great game. Wonder why ubisoft wont stop milking farcry and assassin creed and focus on something like this.
Jeeze Triple G, from when I first came on board when you had a couple thousand, to 50k. You deserve it man, and I'm glad you've always kept that original spunk that drew me to your reviews. Here's to another 50k, my good man. I'll toast a Reuben to that.
It may have been better if they switched out North Korea with red China or just break down and make a Terminator game
Fingers crossed for terminator resistance, remastered all polished and shine more than a T800 Shiny helmet.
I like the orginal Homefront. I even beat it on the hardest difficulty. Twice. It's a watered-down Call of Duty commie paranoia circlejerk written by John Milius, what's there not to like? Aside from its many glaring flaws, that is.
The Avid Gamer
Yeah, it reached a 7/10 for me at the time on account of the (now defunct) multiplayer, which was actually quite good. Too bad servers are down and bot matches are a thing of the past.
Supposedly that was a load of bunk. As much as it had been touted John Millius had little to do with the game in the end, and more to do with novel that came out with the game.
ZakeGaming
Apparently he was "story supervisor", whatever that means.
we have guys that still play on xbox 360 multiplayer on private matches!! gamer tag is NYBADBOY
Ghost John Milius is a legend.
I saw this game for sale on the Xbox marketplace last night for $1.99, so I figured why not - and it’s probably the best game I could’ve paid for with that amount of money. I’ve never played this game or the prequel, but I’ve been a huge fan of deep silver since the first dead island, I had no idea this game was developed by them as well. Awesome review, I’m digging it so far many many years later 🔥
1:40 now i`ve seen it all.
I appreciate how frequent your reviews are.
Thanks For the Review Gggmanlives
I liked H:TR. My only really bad gripe with it was those constant klaxon alarms when you got identified. In a way it did feel like Far Cry in a city, however I would rather capture points in H:TR. Basically because I hated climbing up those vomit inducing towers in Far Cry. Gun play was red hot in H:TR and it went on forever. The graphics were occasionally freakishly good.
Eh, I don't think a game critic is at all entitled to finish a game if they find it unplayable in one sense or another. Games aren't like movies that are done in a couple hours whether they're good or not, so quitting a bad game early is an entirely understandable position. That being said, from what I've seen of the game, Jim's rating of 1/10 isn't an objectively justifiable rating, since there are some good ideas in the game from what I've seen in the previews.
If you read his review it's obvious he barely spent any time with the game. He quit the game because of a bug, which can literally be fixed by just reloading a save file, the game autosaves every minute so you're not losing much progress.
1/10 implies a game is literally broken, which is a lie. This just an average shooting game, far from a broken game.
Gggmanlives
Yeah, I like Jim Sterling, but he can get a bit over-dramatic sometimes.
Just a question but do you plan to do a review of Hard Reset Redux or a short video explaining what Redux does better/worst than the original?
I will review the Redux version.
The original had a waaaaay better story. It was written by the guy who made Red Dawn (1984) and the only complaint I had against the story is that it was too short. I kinda want you to do a review of it just for the story alone. I would say do the online as well but after THQ went under the severs went down. Still would love to hear your review on the original game!
Thank you for using my suggestion. Even though you most likely already started playing this game, thanks for reviewing it, I wanted to see it.
a honest review
Nice! Always a good day when I see a new video from you!
A dull game is worse than a trainwreck. This is the most *nothing* game I've seen in a while.
I'd rather have spectacularly bad games, myself.
Something like Ride to Hell Retribution is so bad it's funny. So you kind of end up enjoying it.
How about the 2 Timesplitters levels in it?
Dongulator Me too!
In my opinion this game was really fun to play and i liked the city your in, the story and the characters.
Who's worse: Sterling or Markplier?
The world needs to know Gman!
Markiplier. He's a billionaire literally just for pretending to be scared. AND pretending to cry twice a week about how lucky he is. Damn right, he's lucky. Some of us have to actually work for a living.
Sterling since he prides himself as a "professional reviewer"
Markipler on his worst day is just a guy who shrieks on youtube and at least cares about his fans and is actually a nice guy.
And GGG has to play these games to review them, i dont think its easy
At least sterling is funny some of the time. I've only ever read his reviews. But that one where he's getting sued or something for "slander" on a game he gave a terrible review for, that shit is hilarious.
You never met anyone who played the 1st homefront? Well now you have because I played it all the way through.
OH SHIT
+BILL NYE
Same. I _hated_ the campaign; I was really looking forward to that game, and it burned me.
ContraWolf Played it halfway, lost interest. Played the multi-player for about a week or 2, lost interest, played CoD.
ContraWolf same here. i actually liked it.
ContraWolf I've played it too!
I enjoyed it.
Also Nork is a slang term for North Koreans. I believe it was used by American troops in the Korean War. It's like calling Germans Krauts or Brits Tommies.
KEEP THE FREQUENT UPLOADS COMING MAN, YOU'RE BECOMING ONE OF MY FAVORITE TH-camRS
Jim Sterling's Jimquisitions are worth watching, but his [everything else] is mostly masturbatory. I do appreciate the amount of effort you put into your own videos, and the sheer volume of your content
Blaze It Bill Before the BF1 reveal, I'd never even heard of this channel. How does that happen
I always see you on the videogamertv comments
Kobby Yeah, I like that gang, they're funny
You are the man, a serius and perfect review made by a professional, and not just a "gimmick review" to catch views and likes.
Seriusely, you are the only reviewer I trust :)
Wait, but what about the bugs everyone else was reporting?
Intergalactic Human Empire they are there, I got stuck inside walls several times during play.
If you are planning to get the gamw, dont do it. It is entirely forgettable, and for a large part just really really bland and boring.
They fixed alot of bugs, it's playable and some of the dlcs are cool.
@@nocooldudes7614 yeah totally playable except for the massive framerates issue that is still there and they missed a few dozen bugs and they forgot to fix the shit story but besides that they really fixed it.
'this would be a great Terminator game'
Teyon Studio: **cough**
"Sonny" Jim Sterling got ROASTED
man this guy makes the best reviews.
If saying this is the worst game ever made, let me just let pop in some fucking Aliens Colonel Marines,, Ride To Hell, every single Unity based zombie shooter ever released onto Early access, every single wave based unity game to ever be released onto Early Access, games by Digital Suicide, Driver 3, and all the games AVGN reviewed for the past 18 years, THEN we can talk about bad video games..
Dang , you make such awesome reviews!!
Nork is the mil term for North Koreans
I been watching your channel for like 3 weeks now finally subscribed
This whole scenario is BS. ive tried to suspend my disbelief so many times but I just can't. North korea? really ??
A least it's original.
+Павел Мастрюков Yeah but it's so implausible. They can barely sustain their own countries economy let alone leading a massive scale invasion on America without any of America's allies intervening. Just a really unrealistic scenario in comparison to other enemy types they could have gone with.
Call it an alternative history.
Well, the first game in the series explained things a bit better. This is an alternate future where North and South Korea are united again. The idea being that somehow the South Korean money and tech got blended up with the North Korean totalitarianism. The end result was a new, scary world superpower that grew over decades.
THEN you can take the scenario of THIS game (the sequel to the previous game) and see that it makes more sense.
However. They have decided all of a sudden to rename the bad guys as "Norks" and have ignored the cool "fake" history from the first game.
So yeah, they had a good idea for the story of the first game (even if far fetched, it was a "cool" what if if you like military fiction/scenarios) and then had some decent additional concepts for this game, but it seems they decided to keep things as simple as possible, thus hurting the quality of the overall lore concept.
Hope I made some sense. :)
+The Weekend Slice You made perfect sense dude, but even with the first game the whole idea of the two Koreas reuniting was dumb. I mean they're mortal enemies that have been fighting for decades that decide to join together for other reason than to take down the US, when the South is backed by the US economically? On top of that, the UN not even noticing? You could argue that it was alternate timelines but the bottom line is that it doesn't make any of the scenarios in either game any less plausible.
The mere idea of having North Korea as a massive military superpower is shut down when you consider how fucked they'd be if they actually got into a war with the US and its allies. Yes, russians and the Chinese are cliche villians in military shooters, but the reason they're used so often is because its far more of a plausible scenario, despite how tired it is.
But yeah, I see what you're saying dude. Personally, I agree with Gggman. The enemy of this game should have been Skynet. XD
Most articulate reviewer on TH-cam!
10/10 Far Cry 4 with Asians.
I got this game for like 2 or 3$ on xbox 1 when it was on sale. Yes it's extremely generic and neutral, but not all games need to innovate. Even though most if not all of the games mechanics were done before multiple times, the game manages to pull them off just fine. And that's probably the best way I can describe the game. "JUST FINE" I enjoyed playing it. And if you get it on sale for cheap, it will more then justify the money spent. It's generic schlock at it's best(or maybe at it's nutralest?)
It's a laughable concept with lackluster game design just like the first game. I find it laughable that they were under delusion that anybody wanted a sequel for it.
damn you say laughable a lot
+kodeth it's rather laughable how laughably much he says laughable.
And now I want a god damn open world Terminator game. Thanks Gggman.
Second video in a row with some sort of namedropping in a negative way...Stay classy because i find this very annoying and if this is going to be something that is in most of your videos then i'll just unsubscribe...Nothing wrong with calling people out on bullshit but in this case they actually had solid reasons for the disliking of the game.
Sterling's review is well deserving of a criticism.
I'm sorry that you had to hear your idol being mentioned in less than positive light tho
What "right wing politics" are you blabbing about mate?
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@Yorwak Kaheen mostly just sneers at social justice warriors as far as I can remember.
Second time? When was the first?
I'm glad Crytek gave the all clear for that community team to make Timesplitters Rewind, they seem to be more dedicated than Crytek currently are.
A Terminator game, that was exactly what I was thinking when I saw the trailer for this game. I would want an open world game set in the Terminator future, being a Techcom soldier or maybe even a reprogramed T-800, destroying Skynet camps FarCry style, taking side quests from guys like Kyle Reese, John Connor etc. Fighting in guerrilla warfare, exploring the post-Judgement Day wasteland, hiding in the ruins from HK's by using stealth mechanics. That's a dream terminator game.
I'm glad to see that some other people enjoyed this game. I remember getting it for ps4 and the frame rate was SO bad, I gave up, for about a week... but the story and setting stuck with me so I went back and played through the whole story and a lot of side content, and really liked it.
Glad to see honest independent reviewers like you. I figured it was a generic game and not 'the worst game ever' others have said so thanks for clearing that up.
I love your reviews man
0:24 I've played original game and I like open world shooters, so I was actually exited for Homefront 2. Original Homefront actually sold decent amount of copies.
Hey gggman, the first story DLC for this game called "Voice of Freedom" has been released. Can you please take a look at it? From what I've seen, it looks like an improvement from the main game.
Another excellent review. Your opening summed it up perfectly. How does the first game warrant a sequel when nobody even cared about the first?
Wonder if you got access to Hard Reset Redux and make a review of it. Might be nice to see how it changed.
Hmm yeah Homefront. Great visual and presentation. Middle Class Games are not bad, but I know the feeling one got in his stomach too well when playing such a game.
You missed the hard reset review a few days ago then, I guess?
try2bcool
I've seen it. Why do you think I would ask? He complains about the games obvious faults. So why not see if Redux changes ones mind.
Actually I played the original Homefront and I really enjoyed it. Sure, it was average, but I absolutely loved it. Even a year ago when I played it on Steam, it had populated servers. I'm going to try and see if it's still active this weekend.
Same, it's everything wrong with current fps games, but somehow I enjoyed it. I liked the story (somehow). I don't know how to explain why I enjoyed it, because every other game that has done the same thing, I absolutely hated.
Grats on 50k!
6:19 is it just me or does the heavy look a lot like the heavy in Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon?
Aw man, I would kill for a Future Wars game like this. The right theme can turn cookie cutter gameplay into something worth playing.
Funny that you said it would make a great terminator game. Because I just watched your review of that new terminator shooter, and I actually said that it looked almost identical to this, in terms of the mechanics, the look, the feel and the aesthetic.
I had lots of issues with H:TR. First was how hard it was in a new map, until you took an area or building. Then I had sound problems from about fifteen hours in. Then at twenty-four hours, it was game over because it crashed on a save, and I could not play on. ...However H:TR was fully satisfying. Like the reviewer says in this video, it looks like a futuristic game. For me that was one of its strong points. I loved being in it. Quite regularly, the lighting and graphics were top class. ..Secondly, the weapons rocked....I got on fine with the story....I was gutted when it came to game-breaking bug close. It's pure unadulterated gun-fun.
Great review. I'm going to try out this game
Any chance you'll ever review Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online? I'm very curious to hear your thoughts.
Nope it looks like generic shit.
=) >3
I loved the original, but this game is unplayable. Freezes when i access a new area, freezes when i change my weapon loadout, my guns stop working for no reason, etc. One of the few games i gave up on because it gave me such a massive headache to play.
Awesome Honest Review as always.my 60$ saved because of this review. Thank you very much
The main problems I have with this game is that the console ports were garbage and the direction the story (and thus technology and world) took. It would have been a better game if they kept with the style of the first Homefront.
How did you get your game to run so well? Every video I've seen of this game (for multiple platforms mind you) shows the game has poor optimization.
Run fun out of the box, so to speak.
Just started playing the original on an Xbox 360 and it had the same issue where enemies spawn like trout during mating season. The only way to stop this is to advance in the original. Kinda hate that mechanic to the gameplay but it does force the player to move instead of just sniping targets from a good vantage point.
hey ggg i love you're awesome and make great reviews :D
OMG so many people have said those game would have been better as a terminator game and i absolutely agree! Good review as well. Captured what i felt about the game.
The original game was not bad. Better than the latest call of duty games. The singleplayer was ok, but the multiplayer was awesome.
I hope you found the Timesplitters Easter egg in this.
GGman do you know about the timesplitters 2 easter egg? Its fucking amazing
gggman*
Glad you mentioned it, the only reason why I want to get this game.
Nope. What is it?
+Gggmanlives Its an arcade machine you can find and you can play the first 2 levels of timesplitters 2. (Chicago and the first level)
Cozza
Oh I think I saw that in the prison area? But when I tried to interact with it nothing happened.
Great review. I didn't even know that this game exists.
TheVanillatech
:D
5:04 I spot a nod to HL2 and the Combine announcer thing
I was one of the weirdos that actually kinda liked the original Homefront. I don't play many FPSes so maybe that is why it being a generic one didn't phase me. I just really got enamored with the concept because it sounds really cool. I definitely want to check out the sequel sometime, sad to hear that it seems worse than the original though. You'd think with how crappy the first did they would try to work on improving things.
I tried it and enjoyed it up until I started getting crashes so bad I had to turn my computer on and off again.
"If this is the worst game you've ever played then you need to play more games." That's how I felt when you said that Dying Light was the worst game of whatever year it came out. Opinions and all, but damn that opinion was the heaviest I've ever disagreed with someone. Love your videos, but JESUS you were hard on that game.
Gggmanlives, do you play on Nvidia?
Because this game bricked my AMD grafixcard
Nvidia for life.
Gggmanlives
#4theplayers
Why stick with North Korea? It could be China+Russia, but North Korea? The country barely stays a bit above the famine crisis line.