THQ Announces “Homefront”, By The Guy Who Wrote Red Dawn

@Black-Dog-Howls: I'm willing to believe that China might come to their aid if they were invaded (Korean war) but the N-Koreans probably don't even stand a chance against S-Korea let alone their big brother the US.

Spiderbait

@Black-Dog-Howls: I thought you had to suck on his nipples to turn to stone and that looking at his face only gave you a mild seizure.

Spiderbait

@The Magnificen7: Yes and we'll see it in the next sequel to the DaVinci code: The boys of the altar were Hanks is on the trail of some big cover-up by the Catholic church involving frequent moves by their priests.

Spiderbait

I was expecting Frontlines 2 :(

MOB712

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SoylentCHUD

If you really think about this N. Korea would have the manpower to invade and possibly hold the western states.

All of their population, at one point, has had some basic military training. How much training would a southern California soccer mom or refinance specialist dad have? Their Great Leader really has the power to say "Hey go over there and kick the ever loving shit out of them" and the people will pick up whatever they could find and go.

Yes they are pretty much stuck in the 50s. Yes they have problems with food and being an overall dick to everyone. But they could all just up and fight as soon as Kimmy said to. All for the state and "The Great Leader"

@Earthjade:

1.) Chinese and North Koreans don't actually get along.
2.) More than half of the World's Gaming audience is Chinese
3.) Nobody likes North Korea

ShazBo

McD/Sky layer needs more sepia tone and a little over-exposure.

"......."

THQ have just announced "Homefront", a first-person shooter that tells the story of a United States humbled by total economic collapse, then conquered by North Korea. So not based on a true story, then..........yet

@Black-Dog-Howls:

Epic lulz.

@dd528: My thoughts exactly.

How short some peoples memories are.

ThursdayNext

Turning Point 2?

lolomfgisuck

Red Dawn was ludicrous enough (Hey! There's Soviet troops unexpectedly parachuting into the desert town! Too bad we didn't notice all those planes coming across the ocean and flying halfway across the freakin' continent...), this is even more bizarre.

While it's true that North Korea has a massive army, physically transporting them anywhere other than South Korea is not going to happen.

@The Magnificen7: +1

ariete

@Kenny: Is it possible to have the accent and not sound thick?

Zing, pow, kersplat, droll.

ThursdayNext

@Kenny: Allegedly the term "blue on blue" was coined by the American military. Up to that point no other army had enough incidents of allies shooting each other to require terminology for it.

Your 50 million Americans might as well be added to the enemies troop count.

;)

ThursdayNext

big lol. N Korea is a poor country. they dont have the resources to invade. but even if they do, they gona get fucked.

@JahB: Is it possible to have a thick American accent?

Why America? Seriously, Why? Why does everything have to be set here? there's only so many times i can tare ass down times square before i stop giving a shit. How about we set this game in South Korea. I've never played a game set there and it'd make more sense to boot.

I'm glad they didn't provide a screen. I like the graphic you made =)

gloveofpower

@bobdisgea3: yeah, I love that movie. Interested to see how the remake will turn out

Raziel66

@dd528: They'd only have the 50+ million Americans that own guns to contend with. As long as our populace is armed we can't get invaded by jack shit.

@laencythe: I would have a problem shooting my own countrymen in a game, but I wouldn't be one of those tards who goes on a crusade against the game, protesting and whining about it. I just wouldn't play it.

MechaTama31

Dumb story. Should be China. They could at least put up a fight.

@InsertBullets: All that hate's gonna burn you up.

MechaTama31

@laencythe: I would have a problem shooting Americans in a game, but I wouldn't be one of those tards that goes on a crusade against the game, protesting and shit. I just wouldn't play it.

MechaTama31

@JahB: I've shot enough SAS guys in Battlefield... Their upper-class sounding screams make me smile.

...Am I a monster?

Nitro378

I was a lot more interested before you mentioned Frontlines... :/

MechaTama31

@mlubczyn: Yes but in Crysis, the Koreans were occupying a few small pacific islands, not the continental United States.

@beetnek:

Also the North Korean army has over a million troops in it. Admittedly its navy is minuscule by comparison, so they'd struggle to get over the Pacific, but if they did, I think they could quite comfortably occupy an America that has been ruined by economic collapse.

dd528

@BubbleF**kingBuddy:

The idea of North Korea conquering anything is too silly for suspension of disbelief.

You should try telling my South Korean flatmate that. He is not having the best week, to say the least.

dd528

@mlubczyn: Because it wasn't completely implausible to imagine that fight. A war where North Korea tried to invade the continental U.S. would end in weeks, maybe even days, most likely without the North Koreans even making it to the Pacific coast.

Aidan_

@hammerhand: Indeed. I believe the original version of Homefront centered around a Chinese invasion and you played as a Chinese-American who's sent to an internment camp or something. Perhaps I'm thinking of another game?

But yes, North Korea invading the continental United States in any meaningful way is a laughable idea. Much like the idea of Cuba invading America was in Red Dawn.

Aidan_

@hammerhand: so germans don't play WW2 games? I know the situation is different, but the principle is the same. I know that I wouldn't have a problem shooting americans, because hey, it's a game.

laencythe

@magictroll: +1 for historiacl reference.

laencythe

This sounds like a rip off of Fall of Liberty which itself was just a rip off of Freedom Fighters (one of my favorite games from the previous generation). Speaking of Freedom Fighters why wasn't there ever a sequel or anything to that, I'd much rather have that but maybe that's just me.

lil-hand

Weren't you fighting high-tech North Koreans in Crysis? Nobody complained about that.

mlubczyn

@CrianBrecente: And *we... pretty early or pretty late since I haven't been to sleep.

CrianBrecente

@arniejolt: And know how that turned out

CrianBrecente

Its OK because the EU is the new global superpower and rides in to save the day............

Leftnt_Sharpe

@JahB: The thing that really makes this stupid is North Korea invading the USA. China, believable, Russia, sure it could happen, but North Korea? They don't have the manpower to even occupy the Potomac Mills Mall, let alone an entire nation the size of America. It doesn't matter how bad our economy collapsed, even if our military became totally bankrupt, you'd still have a bunch of rednecks and gangstas with guns that would easily blow the hell out of a bunch of North Koreans.

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: That was my first thought. This idea is fucking stupid rubbish. Use China or Russia. N. Korea is so unbelievable that it ruins the entire concept.

@beetnek: If the US economy collapsed, the states would probably split. North Korea could possibly be strong in comparison since they are much less affected by the world's economy. I'm not saying this is something that could happen overnight, but Rome fell and Rome was comparatively more powerful than the US is now.

So in this alternate universe has North Korea been secretly building an underground civilization that is burrowing its way to America? Because I see no other way the could do anything but be destroyed before they got into international waters.

China would be a much more likely candidate, but I'm assuming it would create too much controversy or something?

hammerhand

@JahB: Well, as an American, what other game would you want to play? I'm not usually a fan of shooting my own countrymen.

hammerhand

@InsertBullets: I'm surprised that it took this long. Any mention of Red Dawn has to be accompanied with that.

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: we have to watch out for those shifty sobs over in Litchtenstein.

InsertBullets

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: The day North Korea conquers USA, we know the whole world has somehow fallen into a shithole lol.

Pentex

@Earthjade: and Nicaraguans.

InsertBullets

oh oh can I say it? I think I can.
Wolverines!!!!!!!!

InsertBullets

@beetnek: California? Try Rhode Island.

@beetnek: in jaffe's game it wasn't north korea but the idea was you were in a group of american troops fighting insurgents in the US and it had a whole morality system to it. It was meant for PSP.

logicalnoise

this game would have potential if you played as the north koreans, but as it is now, just another "yankee doodle with thick american accent saves the world" game - no thanks.

Is Patrick Swayze confirmed?

@beetnek: I don't even know how N. Korea's army would get to America... sneak into S. Korea and book commercial flights? They are a threat to their neighbors only, threatening to cause destruction to life and property as a way to guarantee their security and extort fuel/food/cash from their enemies. Even their allies barely tolerate them as a source of income and a political/military distraction.

@Black-Dog-Howls: Either way, do you really think you have a chance against this?

...There is also evidence of him being a gangsta, but I don't remember off the top of my head what that sweet album was called.

spannu

South Korea just announed in the paper the other day that they're going to halt the giving of free refills at McDonalds.
That's why i go to Lotteria over here. It's like the Korean Micky-D's, but better.

@The Magnificen7: But the majority of American Christians aren't C-

Oh, I see what you did there.

BubbleF**kingBuddy

Perhaps the Koreans will use their super-giant edible bunnies as an occupational force.

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: The idea of North Korea doing anything except pissing off every major world power with some boneheaded missile move is laughable.

"Hey, we're going to invade."
"With what? Your shit army that has had no practical field experience?"
"We'll shoot with missiles."
"Get ready for every major Western nation to bring down the fury on your ass."
"Hah! China and Russia will stop them."
"No they wont."
"Yes they will!"
"You really think they'll help a rogue nation with no real political or economic benefit?"
"..."
"Maybe you guys might be a good launching platform against Japan for China though."

Black-Dog-Howls

@Earthjade: only problem is, the chinese aren't batshit loco. they don't like kim jong-il anymore than we do, really.

besides, when you have a country by the economic short hairs (and they do), you don't need to invade them.

curly haired boy

@Chaosrayne: only on PS3.

curly haired boy

Oh noes, how can we Russians blow such an awesome role? THQ, give me a call, and I'll set something up.

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: They literally don't have the man power to even occupy California, let alone the entire US.

beetnek

@spannu: Common myth. You have to look at the back of his head or his nipples.

Black-Dog-Howls

In Red Dawn the Soviets had Cuban allies. It would be more realistic in this game if the North Koreans were backed by Chinese forces.

Earthjade

@rubberknuckles: He ought to sue, although it might be hard for him to win that lawsuit: nobody would believe Jaffe would be dumb enough to write a story where such a small country and handicapped country could ever take over the US.

beetnek

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: I don't know, man. I heard that if you look directly at Kim Jong-il, you turn to stone.

spannu

@trogam: It already has been.

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: I think America is more likely to be invaded by the Vatican than North Korea.

trogam

Hmm, is this the same guy who also worked on World in Conflict?

The idea of North Korea conquering anything is too silly for suspension of disbelief.

Now Russians, that's believable. Aliens? Nazis? Believable.

North Korea? Hell, America is more likely to be invaded by Sierra Leone.

BubbleF**kingBuddy

oh man sounds great. red dawn is a personal fav movie

An interesting story and background for FPS shooter. I am intrigued!

Eidos also announces FrontHome, an RPG with guns that tells the story of North Korea already imploded from economic collapse and the rule of a mad dictator, then conquered by America.

Based on a true story.

Sounds like a follow up to Fall of Liberty

arniejolt

@LittleDeadEpic!: but no this game sounds cool.. :)

wow the toys you get with ya mc's look really life like O.o

Isn't this a lot like the cancelled Jaffe game?

Thank god, when i saw the clip I had a horrible thought that yet another games company had declared themselves insolvent and been forced to merge with McDonalds......*breaths sigh of relief*

Did everybody who commented fail to read the part about "total economic collapse"??

This likely means that there is no US, and all that's left is just a bunch of ragtag local organizations. That would leave no army, no navy, and no chain of command. Also everybody would be poor, and starving so it's unlikely you're going to be able to finance any sort of militia group.

Given a global economic meltdown a country like North Korea would be at a huge advantage considering they've been isolationist, and in an economic crisis since WWII. While China, Russia, and all the other super powers are in chaos, a country like North Korea would be right at home, and likely ready to take advantage of the situation.

I guess I'm not surprised at the "them North Koreans can't beat us" bravado, but in the case of worldwide economic collapse, one of the first things the U.S. government would do is confiscate all the domestic guns that they can to prevent rioting/resistance against "domestic security forces."

And who says the North Koreans have to make a landing on U.S. shorelines? Canada is more poorly defended, and a southward march isn't impossible.

Still waiting for the game where you get to invade the U.S. rather than rescue it, though.

Chrysolite

Good stuff Red Dawn still kicks major ass. Nothing like killing commies.....except they are always the damn Koreans now...not sure why they are the bad guys....killing the Russians was more fun like in cod 1& 2.