Even today, anti-American propaganda is currently the only information given to North Korea's populace who don't even know that everybody loves Raymond. Tae tells the story of introducing himself to a North Korean national, who was surprised at how human he seemed. As far as the propaganda is concerned, American-Korean 'bastards' are not considered to be the same species as humans, let alone race.
Denying your enemy humanity: it's no less monstrous for being a cliche. So far so realistic: Kim Jong-un is tipped to succeed his father, but he's a mysterious figure, with the last official picture released when he was 11 Charismatic and aggressive in , it takes him just three years to unite Korea - and presumably he's efficient at crushing dissent, because we're told of no objections when he stops everyone playing StarCraft II.
Three years later again, in , Kim Jong-un's army absorbs Japan, boosting his army from two to five million. Kim said this would also give him "turnkey access to nuclear weapons". You'd think that the last thing America would do at this stage is have a lethal flu epidemic, but that's exactly what those kooky sods do, just as the remaining South East Asian states join up with North Korea. I'm beginning to feel overwhelmed by the parade of numbers being shot at us see The Power Shift , so I smile in an astounded way to my neighbour.
A invasion of the West Coast in , helped by an orbiting nuclear bomb, leads to Korea setting up a HQ in San Francisco before spreading across America. When the Korean army meets the Mississippi, which bisects America, they don't cross it. Instead, they fill it with nuclear waste, converting it into a huge, radioactive Berlin Wall. Safe to say, things take a gentle turn for the horrific.
North Korea's belief in its own moral infallibility means that its people can be treated with casual monstrosity, so the general public of enemy nations don't stand a chance.
In the artwork, Americans dangle from huge water towers, in a showy equivalent of hanging pirates from the docks. Those that have formed pockets of resistance live in camps.
This is where our hero, Jacobs, wakes up. We meet Boone, a friendly bearded chap who looks like he's had military experience. Then we meet Conner, a man who would probably have been called a 'jock' in a teen movie. Now, we'll just settle on calling him a prick. Then we meet Rianna, a bandana-wearing lady with some adorable freckles.
The camp is idyllic. Severed from external power sources, it's purely self-sufficient. Butts store the commune's water, greenhouses and vegetable patches are dotted here and there, and a child plays on a swing. Daily life is going on - a man sterilising some jars, a man milking a goat, and a man keeping fit on a battered step machine. It's well-realised, and we walk around, meeting everyone in the camp. You know you're being lulled into a false sense of security.
And although we're not shown what happens to the camp after we descend into the tunnels underneath it, Kaos' artwork tells the story vividly. The swing that the child was playing on has been converted into a torture device that suspends Boone in a star from the chains.
A row of bodies has been organised, as though they're being presented to us, and the buildings have been burned. The second level we're shown is pure action. And for a linear FPS, it has a unexpectedly fresh feel to it. We're constantly on the move, not because someone's shouting in our ear telling us where to go, but because we're propelled on by urgency.
When our watchtower wasn't being destroyed by a friendly mortar strike, we were darting along corridors of fire with Rianna choking on the chemicals in the searing hot air. Some of this will inevitably be familiar: we have to protect a Goliath tank from the crippling attacks of an EMP rocketeer, but there's still the sense of innovation.
One of your weapons tags enemies with a red diamond, telling your Goliath to kill - presuming it's not stunned by an EMP. But the impression that this is a team of people who aren't seasoned professionals is a success. Any moral decisions on offer here, such as whether to shoot people who are burning to death, don't affect the flow of the game in some artificially branching way - that's for your conscience.
If you want to play as a Korean, you'll be restricted to multiplayer mode. Although nothing's being officially said about this side at this point, it's where Kaos' roots are: they were born out of Desert Conflict, their Battlefield mod. Jacobs is taken to Oasis, a resistance hideout led by local state trooper Boone Karlson. Boone, Connor, and Rianna are aware that Jacobs is a pilot and is recruited to help recover fuel for the American military in San Francisco. They plan to steal several tracking beacons at a school used as a concentration camp in contact with a man named Arnie.
However, Arnie betrays the team to protect his children, forcing the team to kill on contact and eliminate all forces on the field. They discover a mass grave and are saved from Korean reinforcements by hiding among the corpses. Shortly after Jacobs, Connor, and Rianna are successful in locating the trucks, Connor and the team return to Oasis only to find that Boone and all the residents of the Resistance base have been killed by Korean troops.
They escape with other Colorado resistance fighters by breaking through the fortress wall used to keep people trapped in the city by destroying them. Jacobs, Connor, Rianna, and Hopper manage to escape the Korean forces with information about a helicopter that can be used in the operation found at a survival base in Utah.
Homefront Game team infiltrates the base and manages to steal the helicopter, chasing the fuel convoy near California. With the convoy hijacked and with air support from Jacobs, the team continues their journey to San Francisco, where they deliver their fuel to aid the US military.
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