Shooter Saturation

So Homefront and Crysis 2 came out last week. Personally, I don't see the appeal of Crysis as anything more than a glorified tech demo. And Homefront is unremarkable in every way possible. They're not bad games per-say, they just don't do anything that hasn't already been done better by other shooters. Homefront's saving grace is an above-average, battlefield style multiplayer, but even then, how much longevity will it have with Call of Duty, Halo, Killzone, SOCOM, and countless other military-themed shooters available.

Killin' things.

Crysis 2's multiplayer faces the same challenge as Homefront. Ever since Call of Duty 4 broke the game industry out of its wash, rinse, repeat formula with World War 2 shooters, every developer under the sun wants in on the M-16s and UAVs too. Now the market is as full of terrorist hunting as it was Nazi shooting back in the days of the PS2. There are people other than Nazis and terrorists that have done bad stuff.

We're Oscar Mike!