Detailing its upcoming Xbox Live Marketplace releases, Microsoft has revealed the release date for "The Rock" map pack for THQ's Homefront. Fans of the first-person shooter can grab the 400 MS Point pack on August 28.
Last week, THQ revealed the map pack, which will feature four multiplayer maps, including one set in Alcatraz. I wasn't a huge fan of the game's single-player, but developer Kaos Studios definitely pulled together a tight multiplayer experience. It's nice to see that, even after Kaos Studio's unfortunate closure, we're still seeing content for the title.
Homefront players with a PlayStation 3 or a PC are going to have to wait a bit, as the content is exclusive to the 360 for awhile. You guys have other stuff to do, right? Are you even still playing Homefront?
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2:40 PM on 07.26.2011 | 
I'll pick it up and play it a few times for sure.
I wish I still had it, the multiplayer kicked CoD out of the water
• Alcatraz - America’s most infamous prison becomes the site of fierce close-quarters fighting. (It sounds rather small, close-quarters, hopefully not limited to TDM)
• Bridge – A combined arms effort to secure the North Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and surrounding area, large-scale warfare at its best! (If it's anything like the final level of the campaign, should be interesting/fun)
• Waterway – Wage war atop storefronts and in the streets of the Spillway, where every inch feels like a mile. (This just sounds like they're adding Spillway, a new map from the last 2-map map pack, to the TDM playlist)
• Overpass – Battle in a fan-favorite Ground Control space for the first time in Team Deathmatch! (Again, making a Ground Control-only map playable in TDM)
So it seems we will be getting two NEW maps, one of which seems like it might be Team Deathmatch-ONLY and the other 'two' are the ability to play existing maps in TDM. I'm not really digging the 'infantry' focus, because KAOS Studios games always excell in the Battlefield-type(hell, they helped develop it) formula.
@Chongomaster: This is most definitely not a BF3 replacement, this has been, at least for me, largely a kill-time-until-BF3 kinda thing.
@Dakilazical, @Dv8thwonder:
If what you say is true, hopefully the two "new" maps will be available for both gametypes. It really adds to the game when you can play every map in any playlist.
Sadly, I only had one other friend buy the first DLC, so we never got to play together, or we couldn't play the new maps. The DLC really split the already dying community. Hopefully THQ Montreal can improve the overall matchmaking experience for HF2 and we get another FPS franchise in the CoD/BF dominated field.
Also, anyone know if they're still working on the single player DLC?