This from a review on homefront. Sounds too good to be true!

Those vehicles themselves benefit from another smart twist; if you've enough BP in hand it's possible to spawn behind the controls of a tank, for example, putting an overdue end to the act of players camping out by vehicle spawn points

You can find the rest of the review here

http://www.gamestracker.com/int/gopreview.asp?idu=13...

Its not a review mate but i preview of the game code in question,many previews promote how awesome a game is only to give it terrible scores once reviewed.

I have lost count of the times i have trusted ign.com with outstanding previews of games only to ditch the dirt after the retail game launches.

To late for me as the games in the past got pre/ordered based on there hype trail and other similar sites.

So now i am more careful and hope most times i get plenty of information in advance so the pre/order goes ahead or gets cancelled in time.Most times review scores are up about a week in advance so there is time to cancel.

I now look at games in a lot more detail and always smell a rat when game review embargo are in force with certain games.

Bulletstorm had a review embargo but has turned out to be a cracking game which is a exception to the rule as most turn out to be quite mediocre at best,

I used to like ign,com and the Magazine edge as i thought they had a lot of credibility but i now find them quite bias regarding different consoles and take most of what they say with a pinch of salt.

Saying that its still great to see gaming sites and magazines giving games you are buying great scores.

This Homefront has me a little concerned to be honest,after i posted the new multiplayer trailer the other day it looked pretty special ,but after watching this

SINGLE player trailer i have to admit it looks kind of lame and very uninteresting,the kind of game that i could get bored with in 10 minutes and end up trading it in the following day.

I will me monitoring the review scores closely regarding this game as one minute i am all for it and the next minute the game i feel should pass me by

I have this and Crysis 2 pre/ordered and Crysis 2 ships 1 week after this so this has to score good to have me interested.

Theres no chance homefront will turn out better than BF3.

You know what they sat T2D. One mans meat?

That trailer is right up my street. I'm not too fussed about the single player campaign. I use that as practicing the control for the MP. But the sheer freneticism of the gameplay with the vehicles is exactly my bag!

@FireFalcon

As I posted before, BF3 looks phenomenal in the trailers. But any game that let's the vehicles dominate (as with previous BF games) is daft. That should be the MO for an aircraft game, not predominantly an FPS. That's my only gripe.

If you prefer that type of simulation game play then fair do's. Personally I like to get down and dirty in the run and gun scenario. Kill/death ratios are nice but don't prove how good you are as a player.

Take COD for example. Everybody loved getting an airstrike/chopper etc. But in the previous Incarnations killstreak kills continued the streak. That meant game hosts bombing the map continually for 20 mins. Pointless, frustrating and an uneven playing field.

Perhaps if you have never played console games you won't have experienced that as badly, but either way it can never make for a good game.......unless you just like getting the biggest killstreaks no matter how realistic the gameplay might be?

Are you referring to EoD?

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Edited by deleted (Sun 06-Mar-11 20:19:01)

Comparing COD where vehicles are nothing more than stuff to fuel the best players getting better and battlefield where vehicles are a must to help push forward is daft IMO, theyre two totally different calibre of games that just share the FPS genre.

I HATE infantry only games, so boring and limited running around on foot, duty calls is the epitome of what these games are. I much prefer the bigger maps, the varied areas, the vehicles and their strengths and weaknesses, you have to think about what is around you or what might come in, its not just "oh dear someone called in an attack heli", its someone would be flying that heli and if theyre flying skills are good enough to kill or survive you, not like CoD's gimmicks with their aimbots.

To say all vehicles are OP and uneven is naive at best.

I've played tons of console games, I own a 360, i've also play with friends on their PS3, the difference i see is there are far more "scrub"ish players on there, sitting camping or using the most cheap load outs the game provides, noone communicates besides trash talk.

Comparing COD where vehicles are nothing more than stuff to fuel the best players getting better and battlefield where vehicles are a must to help push forward is daft IMO, theyre two totally different calibre of games that just share the FPS genre.

I didn't say that!

BF3 looks fantastic and has the obvious pedigree. But I want away from COD and onto something with vehicles. BF3 could be the best looking game ever produced if it wants. But I would take Homefront all day long if it delivers the MP gameplay in a properly balanced way. It's not all about the visuals? Is it?

I said this.

I want vehicles. I don't think COD is any good.

So because you didn't read the post properly you said this.

To say all vehicles are OP and uneven is naive at best.

I don't understand the need to be so confrontational to be honest.
Isn't that what "the console trash talkers" do?