3 Reasons why the Events in Homefront aren't Plausible

[attackfighter]

1. It assumes that the United States of America military wouldn't bother to harden any of it's hardware against EMP.

2. It assumes that United States of America military lacks the intelligence to detect the construction of a huge invasion fleet that would take years to build.

3. It assumes that United States of America also lacks the intelligence to detect a concentration of forces and materiel prepping for an overseas invasion of United States of America.

So in short this game doesn't portray a plausible event. It's sad considering the studio that made this hired military consultants to provide input on the plot. I guess you could also say that everything concerning North Korea becoming the world's new super power is also a bit far-fetched. Meh.

Thoughts on this game and the plot in particular:

 

[Skwink]

Thanks for the review.

 

[attackfighter]

It's not a real review because I only covered what was in the trailer.

 

[TheLastOne36]

You are mad for a video game set in a fictional future is unrealistic?

Homefront was a really fun game. Wish the campaign was much longer. I hope they make a sequel, the multiplayer has potential.

 

[Save_Ferris]

We all know how games have to be realistic. It's why the best games are flight simulators, instead of that unrealistic Civilization crap.

 

[Maniacal]

It's not a real review because I only covered what was in the trailer.

Yeah, this was the reaction pretty much everyone had when the trailer came out, the premise for it is pretty ridiculous. However, it is of little consequence compared to the rest of game (or it would have if the game hadn't sucked). Doesn't really matter now either that the developer was dissolved (their previous work wasn't anything to brag about either iirc) and THQ is in financial troubles.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Wait a second - an unrealistic video game ?
Start the presses !

How old are you ?

 

[Kozmos]

Just three?

 

[attackfighter]

We all know how games have to be realistic. It's why the best games are flight simulators, instead of that unrealistic Civilization crap.

Civilization is a fictional game that lacks the creativity normally found in fictional settings.

However, it is of little consequence compared to the rest of game (or it would have if the game hadn't sucked).

Well considering that the gameplay is so generic, the only thing to set it apart from it's competition is the setting. And it turns out the setting is for babies.

 

[Maniacal]

Korea invading is ridiculous, as is obvious to everyone. The setting itself is/was supposed to be American guerrillas against the foreign invaders which could have been very interesting but the developers botched it.

 

[TheLastOne36]

^Did they?

They did a very good job with limited resources. I hope they make a sequel.

 

[Maniacal]

THQ still owns the rights to the game, but they fired the entire development studio and closed it down because the game was generally average at best, had a way too short and poorly done campaign,it was only really saved from even worse reviews by the multiplayer. I haven't seen many people post about actually liking the game, at least enough to want a sequel. I doubt it would have sold as it did if it wasn't for the high levels of American Patriotism.

 

[mechaerik]

It makes a bit more sense, if you see North Korea as a China-expy. A bit.

 

[OrsonM]

THQ messed up the game by themselves, we now all know that they operated during that time in a less than reputable manner, which recently has burst in the recent years.

 

[sophie]

Dude, the plot of the game is this:

Kim Jeong Il dies
Kim Jeong Un succeeds
???
Korea is unified under RNK

Before you even get to the US takeover the game makes no friggen sense. Stop trying to rationalize this game and just play it as intended; with the sound turned off (music of your choice turned on) and just mindlessly shooting everything that moves.

 

[Antilogic]

It makes a bit more sense, if you see North Korea as a China-expy. A bit.

That's what it was supposed to be, right? Then the devs changed it under pressure from the pro-China hooligans running the video-game racket?

 

[Synobun]

A game is unrealistic?

Well, I'll be damned. Those devs should be ashamed of themselves for producing such an unrealistic game! It defeats the purpose of a video game!

 

[attackfighter]

so you interpret plausibility as meaning the same thing as realistic and sarcastically imply that the mere notion that a video game could possibly be realistic is absolutely absurd!

yeah i'll get right back to you on that one. just let me finish my phone call with the president first mkay.

 

[Synobun]

so you interpret plausibility as meaning the same thing as realistic and sarcastically imply that the mere notion that a video game could possibly be realistic is absolutely absurd!

yeah i'll get right back to you on that one. just let me finish my phone call with the president first mkay.

It doesn't have to be plausible. If you want plausible, go play Flight Simulator on the max realistic difficult.

If the game is fun, and the story is pretty cool, then what is the problem? That's the wonder of a video game, it doesn't have to conform to plausibility or what you think is possible or not. Seriously, almost any RTS game in existence isn't "plausible", and most of them are fun as hell to play. Fun overpowers plausibility when you are talking about an entertainment module.

 

[OrsonM]

well, there's no necessity for being a bit mean spirited towards the OP here. The game was trying it's best to be realistic with it's depiction of violence and attempting to present a "realistic" approach to a US land invasion. As such we have the right to state whether it was done in a way that didn't broke suspension of disbelief.

Which it did, let's look at the plot a bit further:

In 2013, one year after the death of Kim Jong-Il, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reunites North and South Korea to form the Greater Korean Republic. The United States withdraws overseas troops to deal with domestic instability. Shortly after, a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia causes oil pipelines to burn and the price of gasoline to rocket. By 2022, the United States faces extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest, culminating in complete economic collapse. On January 16, 2025, a Korean satellite, launched under the cover of a program to replace the decaying Global Positioning System, detonates a high-altitude nuclear weapon over the continental United States. The destruction of above-ground electronics across the country by the massive resulting electromagnetic pulse is followed by the Greater Korean Republic invading the country to divide the United States in half, leaving the American military isolated and scattered and U.S. residents to resist the invasion on their own.

Most of the topics deal with obsolete right wing American populism: allowing perceived international threats thrive, becoming isolationist, unchecked oil speculation and an unrealistic gloomy economic foresight (by 2022 is likely that things will remain pretty much the same). Not to mention the useless move of invading the US by a country so damn far away from the US (Korea is most likely by then to invade Japan or maybe any other country near by if they are in that mood).

But this is of course a throw back to Red Dawn, which also began with an unrealistic approach to a Soviet invasion:

Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years... Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade... Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000. El Salvador and Honduras fall... Greens Party gains control of West German Parliament. Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil... Mexico plunged into revolution... NATO dissolves. United States stands alone.