Homefront: The Voice of Freedom is a hard book to review. It’s mostly because there are two ways to actually judge the book. One way of judging the book is as a mode of hype for THQ’s upcoming game Homefront. The other way of judging it is as a book by itself, regardless of the fact that it is a tie-in to a soon-to-be released game.

If you look at Homefront: The Voice of Freedom as a vehicle of hype, it really gets you wanting to play the game now. However, if you look at it only as a book, it’s very weak. Click through to find out why…

THQ is all about transmedia opportunities these days. It allows the company to reach a broader audience while expanding the fiction of its franchises. Red Faction Armageddon, Saint’s Row 3, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw and Homefront are all privy to this treatment. In its latest offering, THQ and Random House Publishing Group have announced a novel that is based in the same world as THQ’s upcoming game Homefront.

Tom Clancy is a man who can pride himself on spinning a taut tale of political intrigue from real-world international tensions. With Rainbow Six he brought his incredibly accurate, technically correct style for writing about military, paramilitary and espionage groups to video games.

Reversing that trend, books based on various Tom Clancy video games have been published since 2004. Ghost Recon is now following the trend that was set by Splinter Cell and Endwar with the currently available novel titled Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon ($9.99, Berkley Publishing) . David Michaels, the author who brought Splinter Cell and Endwar from games to books, has just put out the first of what may be many Ghost Recon novels.

First thing we have to address is that David Michaels is a pseudonym for…