Homeland 2: The Revolution is actually a super fun game.
It was buggy on release, and combined with the fact it was a sequel in a franchise nobody asked for meant that it’s review scores are atrocious. If you buy it on steam today, all the bugs have long ago been ironed out and it is a fun ride. Imagine: A Far Cry style game, but in an urban setting and on the Crye engine. The gunplay is solid, especially the shotgun which is amazing. It’s got some of that “take out enemy bases sector by sector” gameplay that you’d expect in a Far Cry game, but if you like the combat, it’s no problem.
Even premise actually isn’t that bad. The original game was “North Korean manages to invade the USA…somehow”, but in The Revolution it’s actually got an entire alternate history diverging back in the 1940s to explain why North Korea was successful. TLDR is after WW2, North Korea become a big time technology producing country (ala Japan IRL) and got really wealthy, while at the same time the USA got hit by multiple economic downturns. In the “invasion” the super high tech North Korean just kind of walked in without a fight to “reconstruct” the USA. Really when you’re fighting the NK is so cyberpunk looking its like you’re fighting a megacorp and you can forgot they are NK at times.
Seriously, if you can pick this game up for $20 and enjoy open world shooters, try it out.
Homeland 2: The Revolution is actually a super fun game.
It was buggy on release, and combined with the fact it was a sequel in a franchise nobody asked for meant that it’s review scores are atrocious. If you buy it on steam today, all the bugs have long ago been ironed out and it is a fun ride. Imagine: A Far Cry style game, but in an urban setting and on the Crye engine. The gunplay is solid, especially the shotgun which is amazing. It’s got some of that “take out enemy bases sector by sector” gameplay that you’d expect in a Far Cry game, but if you like the combat, it’s no problem.
Even premise actually isn’t that bad. The original game was “North Korean manages to invade the USA…somehow”, but in The Revolution it’s actually got an entire alternate history diverging back in the 1940s to explain why North Korea was successful. TLDR is after WW2, North Korea become a big time technology producing country (ala Japan IRL) and got really wealthy, while at the same time the USA got hit by multiple economic downturns. In the “invasion” the super high tech North Korean just kind of walked in without a fight to “reconstruct” the USA. Really when you’re fighting the NK is so cyberpunk looking its like you’re fighting a megacorp and you can forgot they are NK at times.
Seriously, if you can pick this game up for $20 and enjoy open world shooters, try it out.