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I know we just dropped that multiplayer video of Homefront the other day but here's some cool screenshots to get you even more psyched for a war game that might actually have a single player worth playing on top of its multiplayer.
Really you should run out and play Frontlines: Fuel of War, the last game from Kaos Studios.
The Kaos studios team is made up of a lot of people who worked on Battlefield 2 so there's a good deal of experience in multiplayer war games being brought to the fore here.
Homefront has two systems of currency, experience similar to Modern Warfare were playing the game will steadily unlock guns and skins and things like that, and Battle Points which is in game currency that can be spent during play to escalate combat (a system similar to Shadowrun). For instance, you kill a bunch of guys, then see a helicopters and decide to spend some Battle Points on a Stinger missile to shoot down the chopper and potentially earn more Battle Points, of course if you get killed before getting a chance to do that means handing over your hard earned equipment to the enemy.
One of the niftier abilities I've seen is the use of remote drones, similar to the drones in Frontlines, like a mini helicopter that can be used to spot and mark enemies so they stand out on your team mates HUD. You earn Battle Points for marking an enemy and then again when a marked enemy is killed by a team mate, so taking a support type role can prove extremely fruitful for the strategic player.
Currently Call of Duty Black Ops and Medal of Honour are looking far too familiar to be interesting, but Homefront has a lot of potential to standout for it's unique options and ideas much like Battlefield Bad Company has quietly absorbed bored and disgruntled Modern Warfare 2 players. We'll get a better idea early next year.

That sign might become absurdly ironic shortly

Damn you Koreans! Your pop stars are plucky and androgenously sexy!

You know it looks easy in games but walking squatted down like that is really, really hard, Sam Fisher is like super thigh man

Although I should point out that Korean popstar Rain guy was pretty cool in Ninja Assassin, why the hell didn't that win an Oscar for something, 'Most Shurikens' or something

Apparently the Korean high command during their invasion of the US hides out in Eminem's old family trailer

... or maybe a rusty school bus. Either way there a lot of pieces of classic Norman Rockwell Americana to blow up with your Apache

Sure they've got helicopters, but he's got his rifle and that sturdy... ish looking ladder

We will give our lives to protect this leafy gated community with zero strategic value!

Rockets, the enemy of the tank, like a cold breeze on your junk when you leave the bathroom window open before a shower |