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Homefront tops UK charts

Posted Mar 21, 2011 at 6:17AM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News, Games Tags: sales, UK
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THQ's real-world shooter debuts on top of the UK charts this week, despite some rough reviews overall.

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The Kaos Studios' developed FPS title, Homefront, claimed the number one position this week in all formats chart, knocking last week’s number one game, EA's Dragon Age II, back into second place, according to the latest figures from by tracking firm GfK Chart-Track. Rounding off the top five this week are; Pokemon White version which slipped one position to third, Sega's PC strategy title Shogun 2: Total War which debuts in fourth place with Pokemon Black taking the fifth spot.

Here's the top ten titles in the UK Charts for the week ending March 19.

  1. Homefront (THQ)
  2. Dragon Age II (EA)
  3. Pokemon White (Nintendo)
  4. Shogun 2: Total War (Sega)
  5. Pokemon Black (Nintendo)
  6. Fight Night Champion (EA)
  7. Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft)
  8. FIFA 11 (EA)
  9. Killzone 3 (Sony)
  10. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft)


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# RE: Homefront tops UK chartsRyan F. 2011-03-21 08:17
any of you guys tried homefront yet? is the game worth it?

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# RE: Homefront tops UK chartsGishank 2011-03-21 08:18
Personally I don't understand why there are so many negative reviews of Homefront. The prime things these revies tend to moan about are either the short singleplayer campaign, graphics or because you can't run about in multiplayer wrecklessly.

My points on those (personally) from playing it are that, yes, the single player campaign is short but at the same time it is excellent, afterall alot of multipler-focused games don't even have a single player.

Graphics... The graphics are excellent, and if I recall correctly the devs are going to implement a patch that'll include destructibility .

And 'tanking'... Well, it forces you to be tactical and careful. I for one despise games like modern battlefields and CoD where you can tank 30 bullets or so and simply walk away afterwards.

/random related rant.

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# mmmmemcp6666 2011-03-21 09:45
Whoah Whoah Whoah

the campaign is absolute shite the whole way through. I was hoping for this to be a slow, story focused game. Its not, its go to this area, stop, shoot baddies move. Theres no real story to it at all and the US army comes in at the end, so much for guerillas.

They tried to copy COD, in a rush and never actually looked at what made COD campaign good. They went for the save the day story, which just isnt exactly representative of what would happen. They chase the koreans of the golden gate bridge and suddenly theyve taken San Fran

They shouldve played, this is survival and not victory story. And make the story about simply staying alive and not chasing the koreans out.

Everything they said in interviews are flat out lies. Theres no dramatic music like in cod, we didnt want to use cheap tricks like that (There is dramatic music throughout). You see about 5 sentry turrets throughout the game. They just seemed to plug things into missions instead of stories.

If you also look at the concept art during loading screens. Thats what the game shouldve been like. The couple sheltering in the supermarkets etc.

Just very very disappointed in it. I got the wrong impression They are trying to replicate COD on a friday afternoon, and i thought they came across as hating COD in the interviews

HOWEVER. Games need to take heed of the games multiplayer, which is quite good and much better than COD. But lacks the team element of Battlefield. I Like the cash in system, which i was hoping for a game to implement, it works very well. And the maps are very good and i mean very good, atleast the one where your in a town. Theyre nice and big plenty of shelter and flanking. So for those wanting a multiplayer which is a bit less action than in COD (which has become a total joke, Run n Gun), But feel battlefield is too empty. Get this game

Also there is a lot of graphical glitches and walking through walls and alot of poor things such as that (They dont annoy me much). They need to get their engine sorted out. The textures are awful and often dont load quick enough (so your left with the lower res texture) And objects tend to disappear.

They seem to have wanted to have made a multiplayer game and thats all.

Still waiting for that survival guerilla game (any recommendation)

Almost used up the word count. End Rant

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# RE: mmmmvideo gamer 2011-03-21 13:39
this game is nothing close to CoD and the multiplayer is truly a pretty addicting experience. The story is not too bad, I mean, unless you were expecting a hollywood script from a FPS (which is your own fault...)

Great game to be honest, I have started to feel sorry for THQ with all the negativity surrounding this game. Hopefully the sales will pick things up for them.

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# RE: mmmmWhat?. 2011-03-23 23:26
Can we not give away the campaign's ending in your comment? I was planning on playing this game... thanks a lot.

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# RE: Homefront tops UK chartsvasi4_5 2011-03-21 08:30
Well, it is decent game.The story is goood, maybe the best FPS story this year :D But from gameplay point it is just shooter.Nothing more, nothing special.I think the PC version it's not too optimised.I am getting the same fps om Low and Medium which is not normal.
Sorry if my English it bad.

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# RE: Homefront tops UK chartsBut Fukir 2011-03-22 00:29
Thats weird, I heard that it stunk.

But of course that is only tentatively related to what people will latch onto next.

(Maybe this is like Jerry Lewis and French people but for English people.)

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# Where do i start..............KingPepper 2011-03-22 06:18
Things bad about this game include, the overall speed of the game is too slow, the graphics engine is crap, including draw distance, unable to see the enemies at certain distances, which makes trying to pinpoint snipers impossible, the drones in game are over powered, fun to use mind, but if you are a Noob at these types of game, like me then the good players will dominate the game, with all the airstrikes raining down, the flying drones are the worst part of this game, as you can be hiding on a roof, or in a building, and the drone pinpoints your location for the whole enemy team to close in on you, as you stay on there radar for that given life, giving you no chance of survival.

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# Oh BTW...........KingPepper 2011-03-22 06:36
This is the XBOX360 version i am talking about, don't know about PS3 or PC versions.

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# I forgot about this one........KingPepper 2011-03-22 06:43
On the single player campaign, there was a moment when you can talk to people in the safehouse, Press X to Talk pops up on screen, meanwhile the characters are still talking to you & the rest of the group, i clicked on X expecting him to shut up, but oh no he carried on chatting away, over the top of what this person was saying, talk about BAD coding, i was amazed. :eek:

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