Homefront is first person shooter Game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ it was released for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Microsoft windows on March 11, 2011. The game was set in 2027, taking place in various locations across the west coast as Resistance members aid the United States Military by stealing fuel from the Koreans.
Plot
As tension begin to mount in the Korean Peninsula North Korea continues to stockpile their nuclear weapons further straining relations with the United States and South Korea. On December 2011 Kim Jong IL passed away leaving the Hermit Kingdom in the hands of his son Kim Jong Un. Two years later North and South Korea unified and became the Greater Korea Republic. Sixteen years later , Former helicopter pilot Robert Jacobs is living Montrose, Colorado under Korean occupation. After waking up in his make shift apartment, he was greeted by the Commanding Officer and his bodyguards who are going to send him to a re-education camp in Alaska. The trip was cut short when Jacobs’ bus was attacked by American Resistance fighters Connor Morgan a former Marine, Rianna an expert Hunter. Jacobs is led to their hideout called the Oasis where it’s led by a policeman named Boone Karlson. Boone, Connor and Rianna are aware of Jacobs’ Military resume and recruit him for their mission to track and steal the Korean army fuel trucks for the US armed forces in San Francisco. Boone starts his plan with himself, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna and another resistance member named Hopper Lee a Korean-American Technical expert. Before they could the trucks the Montrose rebel cell have get some tracking beacons at Montrose High School which is being used as a Concentration camp. To get the beacons they contact an inside man named Arnie while enroute to the prison camp Boone is wounded from a sentry tower leaving Connor, Jacobs and Hopper to get the beacons. When they got to the prison some people were not happy to see the resistance at the prison. Once they meet up with Arnie he takes to the Administrative building however he betrays the group and a gunfight ensues. Connor, Hopper and Jacobs grabbed the beacons and escaped prison camp they discovered a Mass Grave which made Connor boil over and killed all the guards that were trying cover up the grave. Reinforcements show up after Connor’s American warpath the group hides in the grave until the reinforcements leave. Connor, Rianna, Jacobs and Hopper go in to the next phase of Boone’s plan which is to place the tracking beacons on the fuel trucks at the enemy supply depot. The team was successful in placing the tracking beacon on one of the fuel trucks at a cost of many resistance fighters lives. After completing the costly mission the group returns to the Oasis only to find all of the occupants including Boone dead. Devastated of the lost of their leader, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna and Hopper continue with the third phase of the San Francisco fuel plan. The only thing that is stopping them is the Fortress wall that keeps people trapped in the town. They managed to breach the wall and escape into the wildernessinto the wilderness where they would find one of Boone’s contacts who had a helicopter stashed at their hideout. The group reached to the survivalist farm in Utah but the residents of the camp were not too friendly to Montrose group and they had no choice but to steal the helicopter instead of dealing with the crazy group. After taking the helicopter the group catches up with the fuel trucks and hijacked them while they were on the move. With air support the Montrose rebel cell successfully delivered the fuel trucks to an American army base in Marin county California. Now having the fuel for their fighter jets the army asks the help from the Montrose resistance fighters again to retake the golden gate bridge and destroy the Anti Aircraft guns. The fighting was intense as Connor, Jacobs , Rianna, Hopper and U.S army get up the bridge. When they almost reached the other side of the bridge a massive Korean convoy headed towards them with no access to heavy artillery Connor had no choice but to call in a danger close air strike by running to the convoy with a flare in his hand. The fighters saw the flare and drop their ordinance on the Convoy. After the battle the British news reported that the battle of San Francisco was the turning point and the European union decided to help the United states to defeat the Korean war machine.
Reception
The game received mixed reviews, some praise the game for the story and other complained how the story is not long enough however, the game got a lot praise from it’s Multiplayer mode where the player use vehicles that were in the campaign like in Frontlines: the fuel of war another first person shooter game also made by kaos studios.
Facts
Homefront the game was based on Homefront the voice of freedom where a group of reporter follow the same characters in the game in the early days of the Korean Occupation. It released in January 25, 2011.
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