i agree with you.  it might be a good game and all but i don't understand why it is getting so much more press than the other 100 or so shooters coming out this year...

It's just a game people...

Looks nice!

Coz this one imo represents a real world fear. A lot of people are scared of Nth Korea. A lot of people are scared of Japans technology. And there are a hell of a lot of people in the Chinese army. 

If you hit home you will get results.

Sorry the use of 'foreign occupation' is incorrect, the phrase is too tied to colonialism and has too much negative connotation, I apologise if anyone is offended.

With respect to your response on WMD in America soil... Why nuke American soil?

It's call a no win scenario because once WMD is used then nobody wins. Before it comes to the point that's been shown in homefront, you can bet your ass that a sub full of nuke will rain hell in the invader's homeland. It won't take a lot of multi-megaton nuke to reduce North Korea into no-man land. When a country loses its production and manufactoring capability it cannot sustain a war, the frontline is only half the reason wars are won and lost and it's often not the most important half.

Again any scenario involving a successful invasion of US in unfeasible.

Before everyone makes their conclusion without actually playing the game or understanding how they deal with such issues, I suggest that they wait and see how the plot comes out.  The problem with Americans is that we believe we are untouchable, which lead to 911.  Do not forget that our country is very vunerable to a ground war especially with how easy it is to knock out most of America power infrastructure.  There are a few books out there that talks about this and the fact we have nukes doesn't mean we are safe.  I can see a bunch of scenerios where the US could find itself in such a situation described in Homefront.  If the US economy falls, we would be selling nukes left and right like Russia to keep our economy stable.  The plot is not far reaching if you think what would happen if the US economy tanked.

Hmm not the scenario. If you add my msn defolt@hotmail.com would be more than happy to discuss :) I dont want to offend anybody myself and the next things I say might.

I agree, this is no longer on topic and we're derailing the thread. In any case, there is too many if if if atm with talks of China and Nukes.

lets step back and take some tea, I don't think I can keep up with so much seriousness anyways. (bad for the blood it is!) While I'm not up for the debate, I'd be honor to shake hands!

Back on topic, I hope the game does well, despite my uncertainty, Kaos were the creator of Desert Combat and that mod kicked ass!

I say give the game a try and see if you will like it.  Yeah the story seems a little far fetched but it is a game and much like a book anything is possible in a fictional scenario and that's the fun of it.

yeah im up for that haha

A good debate is sometimes needed, political or otherwise haha

i'll just say this.

You're mistaking waging a foreign guerilla war and a homeland war. If anything recent wars have shown that the home contry will never lay down arms and even if it's just a portion of the population they can disturb the peace (I believe that is the premise of the game no? you fight on a dominating ennemy, much like the view rebel afgans or irakis have of the US I would guess).

Now your example of china is false as china only has more men, they do not have more vehicules, planes or copters.... and they'd have a heck of a supply line problem from the sea... (not counting the local resistance from the south americans they'd go through ^^)

The "axis of evil" doesn't have sufficient missile tech to even deliver nukes...they are a threat because their nuke tech is likely to be sold to terrorists (or sponsored to) and be derived to dirty bombs and because of the damage they can do to neighboring countries. there's only 3 contries with capacity to hit the US with nukes (besides alaska) and that's Russia, China (they have space capacity... not sure about intercontinental missiles though) and France. Other countries would need to have either long range missile capacity (they don't), or sub capacity (NK has, but low range missiles) or stealth bombers (they don't).

one nice chart that might put things in perspective for you... military budget...

http://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.asp

digg on similar sites you'll see lots of info (based on available sources as CIA and library of congress), but that graph is particularly telling because 50 paper planes cost much less than 1 real fighter jet..... and if you think that's a joke.... Saddam Hussein had inflatable tanks to bolster his stats ^^ (sold by an italian company...)