{"id":96,"date":"2011-04-10T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2011-04-10T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T14:43:00","slug":"xbox-game-review-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"XBox Game Review: Homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TdtWldCfhLM\/TZidiCD9naI\/AAAAAAAAA-k\/8Q3PJu8eDm0\/s1600\/homefront.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 220px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-TdtWldCfhLM\/TZidiCD9naI\/AAAAAAAAA-k\/8Q3PJu8eDm0\/s320\/homefront.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591392145375075746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My Rating:  6.5\/10<\/p>\n<p>Despite the nagging voice in the back of my head that this game would be all hype, I was looking forward to this game so much that I pre-ordered it anyway.  Bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>The story was interesting &#8212; Both North and South Korea join up with Japan to make a super-army that invades the United States.  Having grown up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Dawn<\/a> era, the story inspired a touch of fear in me; however, this was quickly flamed out.<\/p>\n<p>Game-play was rather sloppy.  Auto-aim only worked for enemies that were really close so perhaps the PC version is better. <\/p>\n<p>The graphics were not worth mentioning.  Many of the same objects were re-used throughout the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>The one good surprise was the multi-player mode.  Though not terribly extensive, the game-play was enjoyable.  Regardless,  I decided not to invest in multi-player mode and also did not play this game back through for the achievements.  Instead, I took it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GameStop <\/a>to trade in for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/crysis-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crysis 2<\/a> for as much money as  possible before the inevitable price-drop that is soon to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Rating: 6.5\/10 Despite the nagging voice in the back of my head that this game would be all hype, I was looking forward to this game so much that I pre-ordered it anyway. Bad idea. The story was interesting &#8212; Both North and South Korea join up with Japan to make a super-army that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=96\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;XBox Game Review: Homefront&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}