Homefront

[Kathleen]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Homefront

When Korea takes over America, they also kind of lose.

[Beta Test]

Owl fighting two weeks straight oh boy.

[Alahmnat]

Thank you, guys, for sharing that horrifying post-credits mental image with the rest of us.

I will never feel clean again.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Um...did anyone else notice that the billboard still says Owls of Ga'Hoole?

[Master Gunner]

Yes, Graham said that it will be fixed shortly.

[Beta Test]

Um...did anyone else notice that the billboard still says Owls of Ga'Hoole?

Did you see my post above?

[Flewellyn]

The MiSTing was great as usual, guys, but on the subject of the game itself, I have to say...

North Koreans take over America? SERIOUSLY? What kind of asinine horseshit is this? It sounds like warmed-over Red Dawn.

Waitaminute...

*looks up game on Wikipedia*

The story was written by John Milius, who co-wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote/directed Red Dawn.

Well! I guess there was a reason for that.

[Geoff_B]

Gordon Freeman never had to cope with that sort of stuff on his hour-long ride to the start of the game!

[iamafish]

i'm pretty sure the plural of batman is batmen. Just saying.

[Graham]

I prefer Batmans.

[Lyinginbedmon]

The MiSTing was great as usual, guys, but on the subject of the game itself, I have to say...

North Koreans take over America? SERIOUSLY? What kind of asinine horseshit is this? It sounds like warmed-over Red Dawn.

Waitaminute...

*looks up game on Wikipedia*

The story was written by John Milius, who co-wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote/directed Red Dawn.

Well! I guess there was a reason for that.

There is apparently a big build-up backstory for the whole invasion, including an economic collapse for the US.

Personally, I don't buy it. Not for the big versus little, strong versus weak, sort of reasons though, I just don't see where the man power will come from. I mean, let's say you need a half a dozen soldiers with decent firepower to handle ten, maybe even twenty civilians. The US has a population of almost 309 million people, so that makes ~92.5 million soldiers, which is more than three times the total population of North Korea.

I just don't see where they were expected to get the manpower to actually occupy the US effectively, there would need to be a massive population decline, as in 1 in 11 people get murdered, which is still even then a 10-to-1 ratio in favour of the US citizens. Now, I realise there's a very carefree attitude taken by the invading soldiers to US lives, but that kind of population downturn is more bespoke of, say, nuclear holocaust, and dwarfs even the Holocaust in terms of scale.

[Flewellyn]

There is apparently a big build-up backstory for the whole invasion, including an economic collapse for the US.

Personally, I don't buy it. Not for the big versus little, strong versus weak, sort of reasons though, I just don't see where the man power will come from. I mean, let's say you need a half a dozen soldiers with decent firepower to handle ten, maybe even twenty civilians. The US has a population of almost 309 million people, so that makes ~92.5 million soldiers, which is more than three times the total population of North Korea.

I just don't see where they were expected to get the manpower to actually occupy the US effectively, there would need to be a massive population decline, as in 1 in 11 people get murdered, which is still even then a 10-to-1 ratio in favour of the US citizens. Now, I realise there's a very carefree attitude taken by the invading soldiers to US lives, but that kind of population downturn is more bespoke of, say, nuclear holocaust, and dwarfs even the Holocaust in terms of scale.

Right, especially given that, in the backstory for this game, Korea apparently invaded Japan and the nations of Southeast Asia. Holding those countries with a hostile population would require enough resources that they wouldn't be able to knock over even the Philipines, much less the United States. They'd have to project power across the Pacific Ocean, for one, and then there's the sheer size of the United States, not to mention the population, and the fact that, oh hey, CHINA might object to Korea conquering their neighbors, and supposed economic stagnation or no, they still have a massive army that could crush the Koreans if they really got uppity.

It's just not viable, and it smacks of more laziness on the part of the author, who is known for trying to stir up nativism with this kind of crap.

[Geoff_B]

i thought it got a bit too much when they had the bit where the child's parents are executed right in front of him and he runs to them screaming. bad form THQ, or Kaos, whoever.

[Terminus]

All talk of realism aside, Homefront is not a good game. It's visually unappealing (on PC at least) and its villains are cartoonishly evil. If they WERE cartoons, that might be okay, but the game desperately wants to be taken seriously.

SPOILER!


That mass grave thing? No. Just no.