It has emerged that soon-to-be-released Homefront has a campaign length as short as five hours, prompting a bit of grumbling among gamers. The information was sourced from the PSM3 magazine, which had just published its review of the title (giving it an 83% score by the way).
“That short, short length of the main story may seem like a major sticking point, but it isn’t as significant as you might fear. Homefront is relentlessly brutal and constantly puts you in new, unusual and memorable scenarios, varying the pace to keep things interesting,” said PSM3.
A vast grumble emanated from the gaming community and washed over the internet’s gaming discussion boards.
Developer Kaos has responded to the complaints by defending their game, claiming that in testing sessions, only expert players managed to complete the game in five hours.
Kaos’ creative director and general manager David Votypka said, “We’ve done a lot of focus testing on the game. We’ve seen really expert players race through it pretty quickly – five hours, a little less. We’ve seen players take eight to 10 hours to play it. So it’s a range, there. It depends who you ask.”
He also claims that Homefront’s campaign length is in line with those of competitors in the genre, such as Battlefield and Call of Duty. Votypka brings up the multiplayer component of the package, which he claims offsets the short length of the single-player experience.
“Where there’s a lot of game time in the multiplayer, the single-player doesn’t tend to be 12, 15, 20 hours long. The Mass Effects, those types of games where it’s all about the single-player, then they put all their time and content into that,” said Votypka.
Discussing the campaign, Votypka said: “We wanted to create this occupied America and tell the story of this small resistance band and have the game campaign be long enough to tell that story and play through and experience that. You start off in small town Colorado and you end up on the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. The number of events and character development and things you play through and experience throughout that campaign is pretty diverse.”
“There’s a lot of bang for your buck in the time you play the campaign,” concludes Votypka.
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