WereChihuahua

Battle Academy (formerly Battlefield Academy) is an iOS port from the PC game of the same title. It is an introductory level wargame designed to show the interaction of combined arms at the tactical scale. I love it. I have played tons on the PC and now I am thrilled to death to be able to play the very same game, with nothing left out, on my iPad. The multi-player is fully cross platform and all the user generated content is available for free. All the DLC packs that have been released for PC are available as IAP's and they cost, like the base game, a fraction of the original PC price. There is a bloke name AaronOlstead who gives this game a ZERO. Check his other reviews. He has given EVERY game from Slitherine/Matrix a zero. All of them. So bear that in mind when you see a zero rating.

Many of the negative reviews for Homefront complain about the length of the single player campaign. I've played more than 5 hours and am not through it yet. So if some dude did a speed run on Easy and then cries about it being too short it is not a valid criticism. The scripted events are straight out of the Call of Duty mould. If it is annoying to wait for an NPC to open a door in this game, why is the same exact feature cool when it is in CoD? Multi-player is the real focus of HF. And it is great. Kaos made Frontlines and it was great, this builds on that experience. The graphics aren't sharp and clear, but you better get used to that in all titles going forward. The hardware is not changing and all the new rendering bells and whistles take their toll. No games are rendered internally at 1080p these days. In order to keep the frame rate smooth some compromises need to be made. That means lower rez rendering. Look at NFS Hot Pursuit... lower rez with more post processing, just like HF. If you want a pretty game, Crysis 2 looks great. If you want a great team based online experience though, HF has dedicated servers so there is none of the Gears 2 host advantage which Crysis suffers from in spades. The rough launch was inexcusable, but it is in the rear view mirror now. Homefront is not CoD. It is not Battlefield BC2, but I tell you gents, I'm having a great time online. It lacks only in the number of maps... I suspect they are deliberately holding some back for DLC but that is now an industry standard practice.