Outside of the actual players, avid tennis fans will recognize many of the venues for the tournaments, from accurately recreated Grand Slam courts to smaller tournament courts from the ATP/WTA tour. Each of these venues is brilliantly replicated in beautiful high-resolution graphics, though the fans in the stands still follow the canned animation found in just about every sports game.
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The Crystal Dynamics trilogy was generally well received critically and commercially, though it failed to recapture the mainstream pandemonium of the original games. With the benefit of hindsight, how do these games stand up for a US$39.99 pricetag? Pretty darn good, actually, and it’s not just Lara Croft’s figure we’re talking about.
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Secondary activities (like fleeing, chasing and mini-games) all have their own uses for the controller with varying degrees of success. Trying to outrun the cops while weaving down alleyways feels shaky as you attempt to follow the on-screen flight path and also rotate the camera. Button mashing mini-games are never fun, and that’s no exception here.
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Set in the town of Montrose, Colorado, Homefront tries to drive home an emotional impact that this could be any small town in America. At points it succeeds, such as the opening sequence on the city’s main street where you’re given a sense of people’s plight and desperation. Unfortunately, it’s unable to sustain that impact amid a sea of bottlenecked firefights that are so linear and packed with obvious cover points that they never feel organic.
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On the mound you push the right stick down to start your delivery then move it up when you reach the sweet spot — it’s similar to the meter in that if you over or undershoot it you’ll fire a less effective pitch. Angling the stick right or left on the upward motion allows you to locate your pitch. At the plate pushing down has your batter lift and plant his drive leg. Then you push up to start your swing. The trick is timing it so you not only make solid contact with the ball but also so that said contact occurs when your hitters’ weight is shifting.
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It will set you back 800 MS Points (US$10) to download Highlands, Condemned and Unearthed along with the opportunity to snag three new achievements for a total of 150 Gamerscore.
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