Kaos Studios’ Homefront is a game that has the unfortunate luck of being a first-person shooter in a post-Modern Warfare 2 world. It will inevitably draw comparisons to the Call of Duty franchise, and in many ways, Homefront won’t live up to that standard. However, there is one area in which the game succeeds, and it’s a category that most games treat as an afterthought: story.
In Homfront’s near-future world, economic turmoil runs rampant, and a war between two oil-producing Middle Eastern nations has driven the cost of gas to exorbitant prices. Demand for goods made in China has dropped considerably, and the United States is forced to draw down its military might to help combat rising costs. With the U.S. and China in the middle of a terrible recession, North Korea, led by Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-Un, steps in to lay claim to the world superpower throne. He forms the Greater Korean Republic (GKR) by uniting North and South Korea, annexes territory all over Asia (including Japan), and invades and occupies much of the western United States.
