Homefront - Upcoming FPS

[Cowboy Brian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefront_(video_game)

Game's backstory:

Timeline
2011: North Korea faces another UN sanction over its latest nuclear test.
2012: Kim Jong-il passes away, he is succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un.
2013: Kim Jong-un is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and featured on the cover of Time Magazine for his accomplishment of Korean reunification.
2014: American military withdraws from the Korean Peninsula. General Motors declares bankruptcy for the second time.
2015: The effects of peak oil are felt as gas prices reach up to 20 dollars a gallon due to a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Russia cuts off all oil trade with Europe. Survivalist literature become bestsellers in America. China's influences diminish.
2016: America withdraws its military from Japan and other countries overseas, focusing on its instability back home. Texas splits from the United States, border bloodshed takes place as refugees from other states attempt to enter Texas.
2017: Martial law is declared in the United States as its infrastructure crumbles due to financial deficiencies.
2018: After the destruction of one its nuclear facilities by Korean special forces, Japan surrenders to the Greater Korean Republic and is capitalized into a vassal state.
2019: The UN goes out of commission.
2020: Canada closes its borders to Americans. The US military takes over the functions of many emergency services, as well as the distribution of basic goods. This causes many Americans to abandon the suburbs in exchange of the military-managed urban centers.
2021: Korean forces succeed in annexing many countries in Southeast Asia. A new pandemic known as the Knoxville Cough begins to spread in the United States.
2022: To prevent the contagion of the Knoxville Cough, Mexico closes its borders to Americans. Hyperinflation pushes the US dollar to the edge of collapse.
2023: The Knoxville Cough ravages the American public. The Korean People's Army reaches 20 million total personnel.
2024: Using the captured M-V rockets at the Uchinoura Space Center, Kim Jong-un announces a new space satellite program, under the pretense of replacing the decaying GPS system, which America could no long afford to maintain.
2025: A thermonuclear device is detonated by one of the Korean satellites 300 miles above Kansas, blanketing America with a EMP that wipes out its power grid and most of the electronics above ground. The US infrastructure is virtually in ruins. This is followed by the Korean seizure of Hawaii and landings in San Francisco. Korean paratroopers are dropped into central United States. The economic downfall in Europe prevents its nations from intervening.
2026: The United States is split into two as the KPA irradiate the entire Mississippi River, as a fortification for their control of the western side.
2027: The United States Armed Forces are completely scattered.

Seem's really intriguing, I was planning on getting Crysis 2 but may have to pick this up aswell.

 

[Yeagermeister]

The trailers I have seen look great.

 

[Garland powerplay]

Bad Company 3 coming soon. Best shooter game ever

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Bad Company 3 coming soon. Best shooter game ever

I think that title will belong to Crysis 2.

 

[TheCowboy]

If only video games were cheaper.....

All I can say.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

Bad Company 3 coming soon. Best shooter game ever

Multiplayer this might be somewhat accurate..

But Singleplayer/storylines of Battlefields are horrible.

 

[Hoofbite]

Bad Company 3 coming soon. Best shooter game ever

Nothing will ever be better than Perfect Dark 64 or Halo 2.

 

[casmith07]

Nothing will ever be better than Perfect Dark 64 or Halo 2.

Seriously Perfect Dark 64 is the greatest.

But with regard to Homefront, it looks promising. LOL at the storyline though.

 

[Hoofbite]

Seriously Perfect Dark 64 is the greatest.

But with regard to Homefront, it looks promising. LOL at the storyline though.

I'm gonna give Homefront a chance. They have dedicated servers so I'm definitely looking forward to get a look at it.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I have my copy paid for and reserved. Can't wait for it to come out. It looks really good in the trailers and I'm really looking forward to the dedicated servers.

 

[arglebargle]

The storyline for Homefront was apparantly written by John Milius, director of Conan, Red Dawn, etc. This is a plus for me, Milius is pretty smart.

When I first heard about this, I thought it was ludicrous that N. Korea would invade the US, but they at least tried to work some sort of plausible scheme into the background. One that didn't PO the Chinese.

So, it appears to be Red Dawn II in game form. I'm more likely to give it a look, as I'm more interested in the single player than the multiplayer. Don't care much for the random internet aggregation of players...or was that aggravation of players?

 

[Yeagermeister]

The storyline for Homefront was apparantly written by John Milius, director of Conan, Red Dawn, etc. This is a plus for me, Milius is pretty smart.

When I first heard about this, I thought it was ludicrous that N. Korea would invade the US, but they at least tried to work some sort of plausible scheme into the background. One that didn't PO the Chinese.

So, it appears to be Red Dawn II in game form. I'm more likely to give it a look, as I'm more interested in the single player than the multiplayer. Don't care much for the random internet aggregation of players...or was that aggravation of players?

I don't care anything about playing online either.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

The storyline for Homefront was apparantly written by John Milius, director of Conan, Red Dawn, etc. This is a plus for me, Milius is pretty smart.

When I first heard about this, I thought it was ludicrous that N. Korea would invade the US, but they at least tried to work some sort of plausible scheme into the background. One that didn't PO the Chinese.

So, it appears to be Red Dawn II in game form. I'm more likely to give it a look, as I'm more interested in the single player than the multiplayer. Don't care much for the random internet aggregation of players...or was that aggravation of players?

The online doesn't look half bad, with 32 people in matches on the xBox it'll be much funner than the stale CoD.