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Thursday 17 March 2011

First Homefront Reviews Are In

Homefront is out this Friday, but should you make the decision to go out and buy what may be just another first-person shooter? The critics' verdict is uncertain right now: IGN, GamesRadar and the official Xbox magazine all gave the title just 7/10, the latter review criticising it for having "very short and bad single player", while noting that the online modes "work well" with "great multi-player maps" included in the package. Some places have given the FPS higher accolade, though, such as CVG rating it at a much more healthy 8.6 for "refreshingly domestic environments", "intelligent enemy AI" and a "stunning last mission", even if there's "too much hand-holding" and a "short campaign" to drag Homefront down. It's hard, then, to decide whether the near-future shooter is worth a purchase, and what with all the other great titles coming out soon I'll hold back on a review until later this year. Don't worry, you can still expect ratings for LEGO Star Wars III, Dragon Age II, Crysis II, Portal 2 and the Nintendo 3DS in the remaining days of March and over the course of April too!

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