The North Korean Invasion Begins In Homefront

The guys who made the best BF 1942 mod, Frontlines: Fuel of War meets the writer from Red Dawn. Stop trolling already.

First time i've seen anything on this game, looks interesting though.

Personally, I don't give two toots if the plot is realistic or not. What I'm seeing here is an interesting invasion story being told in a game that sounds like it's mixing my most favorite title EVAR (Freedom Force) with one of the most interesting sequences from MW2.
Obviously, I'm not expecting the best bloody thing ever, but I'll be damned if it doesn't pique my curiosity!

Why does it matter if the whole near future scenario is impossible, it's a video game, people. I'll wait for some actual gameplay before writing this off.

Great trailer and hopefully the game will be able to impress too, not writing it off just yet

Huh.
 
Pretty scary trailer.
 
Sure it'll never happen for any number of reasons, but it doesn't have to be plausible to touch on current day fears.
 
Anyway, really well constructed trailer, but no gameplay footage, so I refuse to give a shit about this game until I get me some. Hopefully at E3.

I don't think I can get over the ridiculousness of North Korean invading anyone.

Some of that footage looked like a lawsuit waiting to happen but hey, if your not bending the rules, your not trying hard enough.
 
Honestly though, the apparent effort put into this trailer gives me hope that it won't be complete trash.

The use of the recent killing of South Korean sailors in game advertisement is just downright tasteless, and the scenario is absolutely stupid.  I'm supposed to suspend disbelief, I know, but not by the neck until dead.  Really says something when you can make a story that makes even less sense than MW2.

" I don't think I can get over the ridiculousness of North Korean invading anyone. "

" I don't think I can get over the ridiculousness of North Korean invading anyone. "

 North Korea?
So did they steal a Piece of Eden, super soldiers, mind rays, Alien weapons? This is so stupid.

" @YukoAsho: Seriously! I know Koreans who are legitimately scared that there's going to be a war, and they want to stick it in a trailer for this absolutely ridiculous premise for a game? Of all the countries to go "Japan 1940's" style, it's certainly not North Korea, it's not in their ideology or within their capability. "

Using the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan to promote a game is pretty fucking low.

I'll wait for gameplay.

" @CreativeColossi said:

" @YukoAsho: Seriously! I know Koreans who are legitimately scared that there's going to be a war, and they want to stick it in a trailer for this absolutely ridiculous premise for a game? Of all the countries to go "Japan 1940's" style, it's certainly not North Korea, it's not in their ideology or within their capability. "

In fairness,  we don't know what Jong-un is like, ideologically. Juche was only created after Korea was split, so the self-sufficiency therein may only apply in hermit-state conditions. I see no reason why, if North Korea was able to expand, it wouldn't. That's not against Juche, to my knowledge (not to mention, they tried it before).  You're totally right about their capabilities, though. They'd be smashed, immediately. "

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Using the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan to promote a game is pretty fucking low.

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" @Farmer said:

" @CreativeColossi said:

" @YukoAsho: Seriously! I know Koreans who are legitimately scared that there's going to be a war, and they want to stick it in a trailer for this absolutely ridiculous premise for a game? Of all the countries to go "Japan 1940's" style, it's certainly not North Korea, it's not in their ideology or within their capability. "

In fairness,  we don't know what Jong-un is like, ideologically. Juche was only created after Korea was split, so the self-sufficiency therein may only apply in hermit-state conditions. I see no reason why, if North Korea was able to expand, it wouldn't. That's not against Juche, to my knowledge (not to mention, they tried it before).  You're totally right about their capabilities, though. They'd be smashed, immediately. "

The way I've heard it, Jong-Un is more timid than his father. I understand the point about Juche, however the  peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula under a communist banner defies well, every common sense idea about North Korea. I understand that your point about Jong-Un being a wildcard is valid, but how could North Korea get the upper hand in reunification? Even if they had a thousand nukes that's a quicker way to a nuclear war, not peace. And their nukes as they are now are so massive that deploying them is a logistical nightmare.  "

" @CreativeColossi:  There's also the matter of China, who stands to have its own economy endangered should a war erupt on the Korean peninsula.  The last thing they want is a bunch of impoverished North Korean refugees running north into their country. "

• back North Korea and become the enemy of the United States (bad idea!) or
  
• take the hit to the economy and live with a unified (South controlled) Korea
  

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

" @YukoAsho said:

" @CreativeColossi:  There's also the matter of China, who stands to have its own economy endangered should a war erupt on the Korean peninsula.  The last thing they want is a bunch of impoverished North Korean refugees running north into their country. "

If North Korea was determined to invade, as in this video, China would either:

• back North Korea and become the enemy of the United States (bad idea!) or
  
• take the hit to the economy and live with a unified (South controlled) Korea
  

If neither leads to a stable situation in the short run, not fighting the most powerful nation on Earth would seem like the better choice. But as has already been said, the entire premise is ridiculous. "

The fact that this trailer and game are making people actually discuss real world politics and  possible scenarios on a video game website must mean SOMETHING. It's pretty fascinating.

What a stupid fuckin' game.  South Korea isn't gonna take
over the world.  Are they serious?  LOL... And nobody is
gonna pass a fucking satellite over the USA.  They will
blast nukes over Kansas airspace. That's the only way
it can get the EMP effect coast to coast.
 
And if somebody did that to us, North Korea & Iran would
be nuked back to the stone age. Although the US would
be pretty much destroyed at that point.  
 
For a more realistic scenario, read "One Second After".

It ain't my homefront.

Graphics look much improved based on the new screenshots versus the debut trailer with gameplay released at last year's E3.

@s10129107:

" are you kidding me? "

Aliens, robots that turn into cars, space marines fighting space orcs,  all more plausible than any of this nonsense. Seriously Kaos, do you have any idea how anything works?

Well... maybe the gameplay will be interesting?

Seems interesting.

A little too much green screen, but it gave some shivers. I'd like to see moar.

I really like the fiction behind this one. These kinds of stories always draw me in.

I really don't care for them using the real incident that happened in South Korea as a part of their video game marketing campaign. It just happened so recently that it's in very poor taste for them to do this. I now have no intention of getting this game because I do not wish to support this behavior.

I'm optimistic. Kaos did a good job whit the feel of the shooting in Frontlines: Fuel of War but the rest of the game wasn't all that good. Hopefully they will improve on that for Homefront.

seems interesting. but ill need gameplay 

Cool story, but if the gameplay is bad...fail.

Seriously dude? North Korea takes over the world? As a Korean-American, I'm glad to see developers start to show some interest in that region, but this plot is retarded as hell. I guess the US stopped giving a shit about a completely Communist Korean peninsula (like hell) and China and Russia decided to let this new Korea just annex the entire Pacific.
 
There's good storytelling, then there's just idiotic bullshit.

 o snap

00:57 is a parody of this  

I could get into this

Korea become more technology advance then us, wat?

" @warmonked said:

" I don't think I can get over the ridiculousness of North Korean invading anyone. "

In the future. It's explained pretty well, actually. Basically they invade a lot of asian countries as well, and they have Korea, Japan, etc. Japan especially makes them an economic powerhouse. Also, they think that the US will never recover from the current recession (in game fiction. In reality, it is getting better) "