Based on the French Revolution in Paris, you are a Judge of the tribunal, named Alexis Fidele, and it’s your duty to bring justice to those who deserve it. The Revolution, from Polish Developer Polyslash and publisher Klabater, is a bit different from your typical game. At the moment, sadly, it fails way short.We. Dambuster has said that it is aware of the game’s shortcomings, and is working hard to fix them, so somewhere down the line, this may morph into a highly satisfying open-world first-person shooter. However, particularly in this hardware generation, technical weakness is increasingly met with intolerance, and many people will find Homefront: The Revolution’s shoddiness too much of a turn-off. In both single-player and cooperative modes, you really get a feeling of being part of a resistance movement which is outgunned, disorganised and desperate – in that respect, Dambuster Studios has done a fine job. Prevail though, and you generate quite a bond with your fellow players. So much so that they force you to coordinate with your fellow players and carve out a particular role within your unit – not unlike Rainbow Six Siege’s gameplay. Dambuster Studios has also taken a less-travelled path with the multiplayer side of the game, which consists of six cooperative missions (with more to be added, for free, over the next year) that are long and very hard. The single-player game is pretty meaty, and includes some good story twists, which are slightly marred by the tendency of your fellow resistance members to utter clichéd dialogue at any opportunity. Save a random member of the public from a savage KPA beating, and he or she will join the resistance, providing fodder that you can recruit for the story missions.
That helps to make the open-world element of the game an absolute tinkerer’s dream Dambuster Studios has thrown in generous numbers of side-missions and random events, for which you are rewarded. Luckily, Homefront: The Revolution has an outstanding crafting and modding engine (not a million miles from the one found in The Last Of Us), which lets you, for example, take a pistol and turn it into a scoped sub-machine gun, or disguise bombs as teddy-bears to be detonated when curious (but none-too-bright) KPA soldiers spot them and investigate. In contrast, forays into the green zones involve major, coordinated missions which feel more like what you find in conventional first-person shooters, albeit ones in which you have to furiously improvise by constructing weaponry from whatever junk is lying around. Firecrackers also come in handy as diversions to lure guards away from their stations.
That device generates some pleasingly varied gameplay: you must employ a fair amount of stealth on missions in the yellow zones, running away and hiding if a drone, camera or KPA soldier recognises you and calls in the cavalry (luckily, there are plenty of Metal Gear Solid-style bins you can jump into).
The KPA has carved up the urban territory into zones, pretty much abandoning the red areas (effectively rubble-strewn wastelands) to the resistance the yellow zones are where survivors are now being forced to live and the green zones are where you find the KPA bases. Parts of the city have been reduced to rubble, but the resistance has at least managed to establish a foothold in the abandoned underground system. However preposterous that setup may seem, it rings surprisingly true in the game. You are cast as Ethan Brady, a just-recruited member of the rag-tag resistance taking on a vastly better equipped foe in Philadelphia. One invasion later, the Korean People’s Army, or KPA, is now patrolling American streets employing the very latest military technology with as much brutality as it can muster. Set in 2029, the collapse of capitalism has left the US in a state of anarchy while North Korea has emerged as the global powerhouse economy. Homefront: The Revolution Photograph: Deep SilverĪll of which is a great shame, because a very interesting game lurks just below this troubled surface.
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