Homefront Review - 9/10 in OPM

[mibuokami]

badgenome said:

mibuokami said:

I don't get it, I just don't get it.... How is this game so different than so many other generic military shooters? Why is it gaining so much press? Because of the story? Seriously? Just concept of Korea invading the US in the near future in any realistic fashion blows my mind. I cannot swallow this concept and thus cannot take this game seriously in any way.

Is it just me or do other people feel the same?

I agree that the story is about as ludicrous as it gets, and the more they try to push it as some genius piece of gritty, realistic near future fiction, the more I just roll my eyes at it. However, the whole dynamic battle objective thing is pretty cool (I liked Section 8), and the previews have been almost universally positive, so I'm actually a little hyped! (But just a little. Yakuza 4 cometh, so I have bigger fish to fry.)

Damn yea Aniki! Lets trash them Gaijin up good! (Its pre-ordered baby!)

@Zlejedi: I guess the emotional impact and the actually plot itself can sucker people in, having not played the game I cannot refute anything and must leave my decision after reading a few reliable reviews.

With respect to the story, I've seen on RPS about how the story should make sense (they apparently took over other country before hoping up to America, but the more explanation I hear the more confusing the background got.

So North Korea united with South Korea, a nation that has been use to liberty and democracy now falls into tyrannical rule, it then invade and successfully occupies Japan (another one!) follow by other Asia Pacific nations, this is meant to be the base for the country's rise to power.

Only I'm thinking, hang on dude, these countries have been INVADED and for Korea to reap of the benefit of invading these countries, they would have to keep these invaded countries under HOSTILE OCCUPATION! One look at Iraq and Afghanistan will tell you just how expensive hostile occupation actually is. You have hostile locals with terrain advantage harassing your occupation troops, low moral due to constant threat of 'terrorism', poor logistic and supply line disruption made 10 times worst due to the fact that the various region Korea must occupy are all likely separate by MASSIVE BODIES OF WATER (#$@#$@ OCEAN!) and this is meant to make the nation stronger? If the occupation doesn't stretch those 25 million 'loyal' Korean thin due to economic pressure, constant battle fatality and war fatigue then invading a country with 300 million citizen that is roughly 10 time the size of your home country's land mass will fuck you over good Mr Kim er .... the-son-of-the-current-dictator.

Sorry for the rant, once again, i might understand the reason for the appeal but i still don't get it!