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Homefront's launch kicks off to a stale start
Posted Mar 16, 2011 at 5:10AM EST by Mabie A.

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THQ pulled out all stops just to make sure that they'll be grabbing people's attention with their marketing schemes for the release of their latest shooter, Homefront. Question now is, did it actually work?


 

From the looks of it, things are not looking as peachy as the publisher would have hoped it to be for their game. Reviews so far have been mixed about it, with Metacritic punching in a 72 Metascore for its Xbox 360 version. 

On the business side of things, THQ's shares reportedly fell more than 20 percent at today's NASDAQ trading, and presumably, this Metascore had something to do with it. 

 

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As if those aren't enough for THQ to consider it a bad business day, servers for the game have been acting up , keeping players from fully satisfying themselves with the game. 

 

 




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# RE: Homefront's launch kicks off to a stale start — Mabie A. 2011-03-16 07:21
it does sound like they're having a very rough start. but what do you think? did thq hit their mark with homefront, or was it all just hype?

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# Sick of COD — Shady0808 2011-03-16 08:28
I hope people wake up and smell the ashes :P

I'm personally sick of COD, same old thing, which is why I'm getting this game for something different... but I think some gamers are just too far up COD's arse to care what's going on around them lol

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# ,,, — hush404 2011-03-16 09:32
It doesn't matter how much they market it... it's not going to affect review scores. That said, there's news going around that the game is 5 hours long and then all you're left with is a CoD clone for multiplayer... not exactly unique IMO and thus very little people are going to care.

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# Home is Where the War Is — rapturestar 2011-03-16 11:45
The game is alright with the storyline and gameplay. The problem is people expecting too much for it to be a CoD clone. Look on GameFaqs forum and you can tell that is one issue. There are some people experiencing glitches & freezes. The game should not have been marked with a X360 exclusivity right away since it's predecessor "Frontlines: Fuel of War" didn't do well either. Don't know if anyone went to the retailers' midnight launch personally, but that's overhype right there. At least THQ tried to help Kaos Studio by advertising the game heavily.

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# Same old thing — squeeks 2011-03-16 13:41
I just couldn't get excited for another CoD like FPS. Maybe its FPS burnout, I don't know but I have absolutely no interest in this.

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# RE: Homefront's launch kicks off to a stale start — video gamer 2011-03-16 20:17
the game is pretty good. Campaign is short and a little cheesy, but multiplayer is solid. Perfect balance of infantry and vehicles and I am one that usually hates vehicles in games...

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