Homefront: The Revolution has a handful of good ideas, and some of them are actually executed well. But none of that matters when the game constantly runs at 25 FPS (PS4) and the gun controls are truly abysmal.

Gun conversion system; Cool characters

Abysmal gunplay; Lots of technical problems; Boring mission design

Homefront: The Revolution is set in the year 2029, four years after the North Koreans invaded the United States after remotely disabling all of the technology of opposing forces, which were supplied by the North Koreans themselves.

Though its world has some great aesthetic devices and a cool concept, ultimately all of Homefront: The Revolution's elements feel repetitive, unpolished, or downright unnecessary. Over the length of its campaign it fails to deliver a satisfying - or even fully functional - shooter experience.

World design; Weapon conversions

Generic story; Repetitive objectives; Annoying bugs

Homefront: The Revolution 's eventful back story is well documented. To switch publishers and in doing so change direction mid-development is something that can really affect a game.

Homefront: The Revolution boasts solid gameplay and impressive level design, but tonally it's a disaster.

Perhaps the saddest thing about Homefront: The Revolution is that it's capably developed. It's not buggy (at least not in the PC version I played) and it runs smoothly. The guns feel fine; the lone vehicle (a motorcycle) is easy to control.

Development Hell, quite unsurprisingly, doesn't usually end happily for video games. Games are lost in the swirling ether for decades, or they arrive, limp, messy and uninspired (Duke Nukem Forever I hark at thee).

An interesting change of pace for a first person shooter that has some nice ideas and mechanics, but can't quite get everything to sing.

A small but good open world fighting experience; Plenty of mechanics and options to try out; Lots of freedom to try different approaches

Wildly fluctuating levels of challenge; Slow non-combat sections