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    Homefront

    Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Mar 15, 2011

    By the year 2027, the North Koreans have managed to unify Korea, annex Japan, and also invade the western half of the United States. As an American rebel fighter, it is the player's duty to help push the NPA out of the United States and end the citizens' suffering.

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    Edited By Brad
    Kaos Studios' new shooter Homefront surprised me a little at E3. I didn't have concrete expectations for the game; the premise about a U.S. homeland invasion struck me as sort of cookie-cutter, and Kaos' previous focus has been on multiplayer sorts of games. In my writeup from the show I detailed a couple of things the game seems to be doing well--well enough, hopefully, to make it stand out in the incredibly crowded cinematic first-person shooter market--and THQ's got a new trailer that summarizes the brief demo I saw.

      


    Biggest takeaway from the trailer is the use of the "drama engine," which has a silly name but makes exciting things, like that jeep narrowly missing your head, happen with regularity. I hope that focused style of action, along with Red Dawn scribe John Milius' contributions to the story, are enough to make Homefront worth keeping track of.
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    #1  Edited By Brad
    Kaos Studios' new shooter Homefront surprised me a little at E3. I didn't have concrete expectations for the game; the premise about a U.S. homeland invasion struck me as sort of cookie-cutter, and Kaos' previous focus has been on multiplayer sorts of games. In my writeup from the show I detailed a couple of things the game seems to be doing well--well enough, hopefully, to make it stand out in the incredibly crowded cinematic first-person shooter market--and THQ's got a new trailer that summarizes the brief demo I saw.

      


    Biggest takeaway from the trailer is the use of the "drama engine," which has a silly name but makes exciting things, like that jeep narrowly missing your head, happen with regularity. I hope that focused style of action, along with Red Dawn scribe John Milius' contributions to the story, are enough to make Homefront worth keeping track of.
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    #2  Edited By citizenkane

    The action looks tight.  This game definitely has me interested.

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    #3  Edited By Luke

    NOTE to Game Industry:  Less FPS and moar JRPGS and Strategy games please.  KK thnx, bye bye :)

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    #4  Edited By mrsmiley

    meh.

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    #5  Edited By UnheardWar

    Well I missed that in the swarm of E3 news, but it looks pretty exciting.  Definitely keeping this on my radar.  I especially like the straight-outta-cod4 machine gun too (well mostly the sights on it look identical, and thats a good thing!)

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    #6  Edited By Jambones

    Wolveri... wait, what?

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    #7  Edited By Media_Master

    Seems too much like all the other shooters out there.

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    #8  Edited By Andborn

    Different.  Are they fighting the government or occupying forces acting like the government? Down with the man!

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    #9  Edited By fugie7

    it looks alright, maybe if i see little more videos on the game ill get interested.

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    #10  Edited By Venatio

    I think that this game actually sounds good, hopefully it will turn out great

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    #11  Edited By Kohe321

    It looks pretty cool, the action certainly looks hectic. I just hope that the "drama engine" won't throw "near miss" objects at you often enough to make it trivial.

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    #12  Edited By McPaper

    The logo font of the game shown at the end of the trailer is comprised of an american flag colours as well as some communist looking flag with a star in it. Looks similar to China.

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    #13  Edited By Serker

    does this entire game take place at those 3 houses!?!

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    #14  Edited By Death_Unicorn

    I don't understand how can North Korea, a country with a population, hold control of a country that is not only larger than it, but more populous. I mean I would think it would make more sense if it was nazi controller, or soviet controller America. But North Korean? Sounds a little far-fetched.

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    #15  Edited By Sunjammer

    Why the hell would they publish a trailer showing the game running at something like 15 fps? I'm not a performance whore, but that's JANKY looking!

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    #16  Edited By ahoodedfigure
    @Death_Unicorn: A little? :)

    They would have trouble getting here.  Strange choice of adversaries, to be certain.  I'd be curious what Milius would say behind his choice.  Hopefully just "it'd be neat," because anything beyond that would be hard to swallow.
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    #17  Edited By Keeby

    Terminator Salvation?

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    #20  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Drama engine, eh? Well, sounds unique but I don't know what else to think about this. The trailer looked a bit generic, honestly.

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    #21  Edited By ArbitraryWater

    Yet another 1st person shooter.

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    #22  Edited By Seedofpower

    Wow, it looks good and its GFWL!

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    #23  Edited By Iainzor

    I watched them play this demo at E3 and it looks and sounds amazing.  It was pretty much non-stop action and looked really fun.  The whole "cinematic magnet" thing works pretty well too.

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    #24  Edited By HeaveyMental

    i better liked the kotaku post about this
    comparing the game to crysis

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    #25  Edited By IncredibleBulk92

    That exact jeep is in Frontlines Fuel of War.  I realise it's the same developer but they could have come up with a new model or 2



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    #26  Edited By Scieran

    First Impression: Meh. I'm working on the assumption that we play as the resistance fighting against.. Koreans!? This game would sell well on North Korea and South Korea. The graphics in this game isn't over-well polished for a 2009-2010 game - Doesn't meet the standard. Prototype had one of the shittest graphics for this generation - wasn't even well polished and mentioned as an example of how shit some games can be.

    Judging from the trailer, the blockbuster action in gameplay seems to lag alittle, isn't running smoothly.

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    #27  Edited By Colonel_Fury

    It looks okay.  I'd like to see some gameplay though. Its too early to tell if this is another generic fps.

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    #28  Edited By sdauz

    game seems fine, but NK seems sooooo lame

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    #29  Edited By JoelTGM

    So they introduce it with the hint of a good story, but then they go off into some generic action shootout that looks like crap.  Wow, another video game with guns and explosions.

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    #30  Edited By TwoOneFive

    cool beans. drama engine looks badass. like it knows that shooting a rocket launcher at something should cause something spectacular to happen and automacally it launches the jeep right over your head. 

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    #31  Edited By bigsmoke77

    I always wanted a Red Dawn game, a Good red Dawn game would be awsome, so should be interesting to see if this game is any good.

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    #32  Edited By DukesT3

    RESIST! 

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    #33  Edited By crusader8463

    any game that lets me destroy American cities is A-OK in my books. Everyone likes blowing up Yankees :)

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    #34  Edited By saddlebrown

    They should not have released that trailer. The framerate isn't near good enough for a trailer, and otherwise technically it just needs work. The story sounds like some generic Terminator Salvation kind of mess so they need to make sure that's up to snuff as well. Really, if it weren't for their "drama engine" thing, I wouldn't give two shits about this game.

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    #35  Edited By chickendoughnut

    the concept is totally bulllshit. N. Koreans in America? Never...

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    #36  Edited By ImperiousRix

    Action looks tight, but visuals kinda look a bit generic.
    I'll keep it in the back of my head.

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    #37  Edited By delicious_lie

    i dunno i think it's cooler when something totally awesome happens in a game at random and you're just like "fuck yeah, i did that"

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    #38  Edited By AaronReynolds

    I like a lot of the ideas they have in this game, but I would like to see gameplay in more areas than just the one featured in the video.

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    #39  Edited By PNut_Buttr_Panda

    next up on video game concept mash ups. CALL OF DUTY 4 VS RED DAWN!!

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