HOMEFRONT

Homefront is a first-person shooter video game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. Players are members of a resistance movement fighting against a near-future Asian communist military occupation of the United States. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 15, 2011 in North America, March 17, 2011 in Australia, March 18, 2011 in Europe, and April 14, 2011 in Japan.

Gameplay

Single-player

The single-player campaign is said to be 5–10 hours long depending on experience.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer component of Homefront is focused on large-scale vehicle based combat reminiscent of Kaos Studios' first title, Frontlines: Fuel of War. The defining innovation of Homefront's multiplayer is its battle points system, which is an in-game currency that allows a player to purchase weapons, gear and vehicles. Players earn points by taking objectives and getting kills and are forced to choose between many small purchases such as weapons, missiles and drones versus larger, higher cost items like helicopters and tanks.The multiplayer takes place in the period before the U.S. armed forces were completely scattered. Each copy of Homefront contains an online pass, enabling users the full multiplayer experience. Although the online pass is not required to play multiplayer, those who play without an online pass will be capped at level 5 out of 75. This "Battle Code" was also released in March 2011, on Xbox Live for 800 Microsoft Points. Homefront's multiplayer servers were shut down in 2013 after THQ declared bankruptcy.