lol oh shit.

It's compelling to people because it's a war story in their backyard and the story shows what ordinary Americans would have to go through. Not sure what's so hard to understand about it.. Also it's been said in various interviews that the back story has been given a lot of thought and research so that the Korean invasion will make sense.

Not sure if I want it but it's certainly not difficult to understand the attraction.

Hello Everyone, I'm Krunch! 
Lol, what an introductory... 
Anyways I'm from the UK, and I actually just recently got back into the gaming scene.. 
You know with the release of Black Ops and StarCraft II and what not... 
Anyways, I've been cruisin' some forums and communities to find people to talk to.. 

I've read a few threads here and this seems like a nice cozy place. 
I don't think it'll take too long before I'm comfortable here. 

So I wanted to tell you about somthing that happened to me about a week ago. 
I got this facebook page recommended from a friend. 
The message said: "This isint spam, Its pretty cool." 
I did'nt believe him of course, but I figured thats enough to get my curiousity going. 
At first I didnt get it either... I figured its some sort of publicity stunt.. 
But I liked it anyway cuz, hey... I like games. 

After a few days it became clearer... 
A decent page that has constant status updates from the gaming world. 
I sireously feel like I can discuss real E-sports with people from anywhere... 
Theres no hidden agenda or anything.. 
Its still rather small, but I bet it'll grow real fast 
I love the idea of creating an authentic international gaming community. 

I Highly reccommend you all to check it out. 
I'm pretty sure you'll "Like" it 
Its pretty simple too, just have to search "Lets go Gamers" in facebook 

So... Either here or there, i'll see you guys around...

Brave american boys killing evil commies.

That alone should sell it in USA like hotcakes.

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.)

Thing is there is no realistic scenario where the US would be invaded by anything....

The US military is currently a good 10 years ahead of any other military in tech, with the closest being russia and France. All other countries in the world rely on outside arms purchase and are de facto dependent on the furnishing country for their wearponry. Even China is lagging way behind, didn't they just test their FIRST stealth plane a few months ago?

The other true factor besides tech is the quantity of gear (tanks/planes/boats.... even if lower tech) and in this aspect too, the US have a big step forward any country (well maybe not russia there, dunno). I mean even if you have 1000 chinese littleman with rifles... they ain't gonna do much against a bomber out of bullet reach...

Lastly, experience... well the US is in every fight...

On the numbers though, if you recall japan, they were many many less than the chinese pre WWII, yet they did manage to cover most of asia... granted, japan is larger than north corea, but  the only factor that enabled them to do this was still the military tech that was way ahead than any other countries arround them.

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!

You cant be serious... 

If anything these latest wars shows US is a susceptible as anyone. If a probably organised military attacked america they have every chance of winning. If China attacks via south america for example the US wouldnt have a chance as they would then be fighting a land war.

And that is only the start, if the "axis of evil" declared war on America it wouldnt be as one sided as you hope imo

EVERYTHING will get nuked before America was seriously 'defeated' via a land invasion, you scenario is unfeasible so long as WMD exist and are in the hand of the US.

What the latest wars have shown is that foreign occupation is damn expensive.

@ Hephaestos
Understand that the Empire of Japan is not sustainable, Japan's policy during the war was loot and pillage because they knew that they cannot hold so much territory, they were stretched thin on logistic and supply and also occupied some territory that saw them as liberators rather than foreign conqueror (Indonesia for example). On top of that the disparity in technology as you yourself mention was severe; knife versus gun is a losing proposition. Today's war are significantly different, because no matter how skewed the tech of 2 opposing nation is, its still gun versus gun when it comes a forced occupation.

Really Occupation? Okay. 

If WMD's come into play in Americas own homeland America loses. If they bomb China and Chinese military is already attacking America, America loses.

China is the main guys that can beat the US. US knows it that is why there is an almost Iron tight Alliance even though China is a communist nation. If China and the US goes to war neither China nor US will win

If Nth and Sth Korea combine and then they take Japan who knows. Or even an alliance, then they allied with China, the world would be run by these 4 nations, that is almost factual, hence why Homefront can work.

This is of course my opinion. Can the scenario work? hell yes, Do a lot of factors need to go right? Hell yes Is it likely? Probably not.