Woah, what happened in the subject line, there? I must look like a bright one, eh?
Kind of spoilers, I guess, but nothing very important, and certainly nothing the game should be proud of.
All right, so I'm about halfway through Homefront on the PC and it's sort of really, really terrible. It pains me to say it, cause while I wasn't expecting it to be super great or anything, I was looking forward to shooting some dudes and such. And I am about as forgiving a gamer you'll meet (I loved Alpha Protocol and Bionic Commando, for example, in spite of their glaring faults). But, I mean, WOW. This game is super rough.
Luckily, though, there is a ton of in-game advertising and pretty much all of it makes me laugh. It's, what, 2027 in the game? I sort of like how there is some brand name stuff here and there cause, well, that's America! I don't mind that in games so much. But I find it really hysterical in this context. Everything is super serious around you. Mass graves, parents killed in front of children, and whatnot. You know, edgy stuff. But then you're walking around and you see this:
(FULL-SIZED VERSIONS OF ALL THESE ARE IN THIS GALLERY, IF YOU WANT A CLOSER LOOK: http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/drhans/homefront-in-game-ads/52-533619/)
Someone actually yells at you, "Quick, get inside the Hooters!" Goddamn North Koreans, GET OUT OF MY HOOTERS. Is nothing sacred?
Then, of course, there's this:
If you're wondering if you end up having a lengthy battle inside of said Tiger Direct...
Yep, that's the main menu of the game if you're in chapter 3.
And yeah, all the vending machines are full of NOS energy drink. Why wouldn't they be?
There's a Jansport and Coffee Beanery back there if you look close enough (not the best screenshot, but I was under "HEAVY FIRE!!!", as were my squad mates. I know this because everyone in the game will make sure you understand that they are under "HEAVY FIRE!!!" every seven seconds).
Even the multiplayer's not safe. Some context: this is on the Cul-De-Sac map, which is just a suburban neighborhood. Homes, cars, white picket fences, giant Pabst Blue Ribbon billboards in people's backyards, you know. Suburbia.
Anyway, those are just a few of what I'm sure are many more completely hilarious in-game ads to come. Again, I don't hate advertisements in games, and these aren't even close to the biggest reasons the game is rotten. It's just a real shame cause I was hoping for a decent shooter, but, once more, WOW. I'd have a hard time recommending it during a crazy Steam sale. Hopefully it will improve a bit by the end, but it's so fundamentally broken and poorly designed that there's only so much they can do at this point. I'll post more as I run into them.
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