Free the U.S. from North Korean occupation!!

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

"THQ and Dreamworks will announce a partnership at the show this year, which is likely more than a simply licensing deal. THQ may well join the number of publishers creating 3D games, given Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg’s enthusiasm for the technology. The company will also give a progress report on several games key to its ongoing turnaround, including 'Homefront,' a first person shooterin which Americans must retake their country after a North Korean occupation. The game may be a dark horse this year in the action genre, which could impact sales of both 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor'."

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/this-year-s-video-game-summit-what-to-expect/1401197

"Homefront is set in a near future America in 2027 when a now-nuclear armed Korean People's Army invades the USA, defeating the United States Army and reducing it to nothing from the superpower it once was. The game is written by John Milius who co-wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote Red Dawn."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefront_%28video_game%29

:thumbup1:

[Os Cangaceiros]

There was some recent "alternate history" game about having to retake the United States after hardliners take over the USSR Politboro and launch an invasion of the US Northwest in the 1980s. Can't remember the name of it, though.

[Chimurenga.]

Wow.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

There was some recent "alternate history" game about having to retake the United States after hardliners take over the USSR Politboro and launch an invasion of the US Northwest in the 1980s. Can't remember the name of it, though.

I'm not sure. But the game Freedom Fighters, released in 2003, was pretty similar.

"Freedom Fighters, originally titled Freedom: The Battle For Liberty Island, is a 2003 third-person shooter video game available for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows that is set in an alternate history. The player takes the role of Christopher Stone, a plumber-turned American Resistance movement leader who fights against the Red Army that invades and occupies New York City."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_%28video_game%29

[Tablo]

I can't stand propaganda like this.

[Dr Mindbender]

There was some recent "alternate history" game about having to retake the United States after hardliners take over the USSR Politboro and launch an invasion of the US Northwest in the 1980s. Can't remember the name of it, though.

Its called 'World in conflict'. Pretty cool game, I have the PC version. It has 'everybody wants to rule the world' by Tears for fears in the soundtrack.

:thumbup1:

[InuyashaKnight]

Stupid.

[Sankofa]

Disgusting. A video game with the opposite scenario would be more accurate.

[scarletghoul]

:bored: :laugh: :( :crying:

[Raúl Duke]

I would play it...

but I'm imagining me and my roommate commenting how unlikely it is just like the last CoD,

[black magick hustla]

my favorite is red alert 1 because of the stalin video segments they were gr8t:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2zeRbu0x4&feature=related emo stalin

[Red Commissar]

Kim Jong-Il will be flattered that the glorious People's Army destroyed a super-power by way of just being nuclear, apparently. Never mind somehow being able to occupy it.

[AK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiXOmBVpgUA

[Guerrilla22]

Can you play as North Korea?

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

Disgusting. A video game with the opposite scenario would be more accurate.

This. Damnit, shit like this makes me ashamed of playing video games.

[Raúl Duke]

It's written by the same person who made up Red Dawn...

I mean c'mon...why bother with ridiculous Russia or NK scenarios...people want to play a game where China invades...

Even though I doubt they have offensive capabilities for that (i.e. aircraft carriers?)

[Sankofa]

Aren't they planning on a re-make of the original Red Dawn film with China as the invaders instead of the USSR/Cuba?

[Comrade Hoxha Hysni]

Things like this get me so pissed that a very sick part of me wants scenarios liek that to actually happen. American women and children being slaughtered left and right, cities being razed to the ground, schools getting bombed, it's the shit.

Good thing I don't have superpowers.

[Dr Mindbender]

people want to play a game where China invades...

Even though I doubt they have offensive capabilities for that (i.e. aircraft carriers?)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/USNWC_Varyag01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USNWC_Varyag01.jpg


to be honest though, if we should be blaming anyone for this sort of shit its the basement dwellers who will happilly fork out 80 bucks for the privilege and to a lesser extent the publisher who gave the green light. The developers are just trying to satisfy the demand and get paid.

[Raúl Duke]

Yes I heard that China is planning on making some aircraft carries...recently, this means they don't have a lot.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Aren't they planning on a re-make of the original Red Dawn film with China as the invaders instead of the USSR/Cuba?

Yep, they filmed it in Detroit. Ask Miles about it, he saw some of the filming.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Never mind somehow being able to occupy it.

Yeah, especially when "Most NKN vessels are small patrol-size craft unable to operate over 50 nautical miles (nm) from the coast but capable of policing the DPRK's territorial waters." - http://www.dia.mil/publicaffairs/Foia/nkor.pdf

I guess the waves of soldiers will ride nuclear warheads over from Korea. :rolleyes:

[praxis1966]

These are all reasons why I liked Battlefield:Vietnam so much. You could actually play as the Viet Cong and win since it was primarily designed for online play. Well, that and the soundtrack was a killer mix of 60s era rock with plenty of protest songs thrown in.

[Q]

What's next, Luxembourg invading USA? Oh noes!

@ Alpha Kappa: An excellent summarizing of a standard Hollywood script :cool:

[Uppercut]

I watched the trailer for it the other day on ign. I got so angry, I had to walk away. And then there's that fat American pig, yelling: "THE ONLY GOOD COMMUNIST IS A DEAD COMMUNIST!!!"

I will definately never play this game.

[Sankofa]

Official site and trailer here: http://www.homefront-game.com/#/home

Sad thing is, I'm sure the general public will eat this game up. Especially if it's riding on the back of media hype. It's out in 9 months, we'll see.

[Q]

Can we play North-Koreans? That would make it worth at least a bit of fun (I always love playing the bad guy).

[Revy]

"THQ and Dreamworks will announce a partnership at the show this year, which is likely more than a simply licensing deal. THQ may well join the number of publishers creating 3D games, given Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg’s enthusiasm for the technology. The company will also give a progress report on several games key to its ongoing turnaround, including 'Homefront,' a first person shooterin which Americans must retake their country after a North Korean occupation. The game may be a dark horse this year in the action genre, which could impact sales of both 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor'."

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/this-year-s-video-game-summit-what-to-expect/1401197

"Homefront is set in a near future America in 2027 when a now-nuclear armed Korean People's Army invades the USA, defeating the United States Army and reducing it to nothing from the superpower it once was. The game is written by John Milius who co-wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote Red Dawn."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefront_%28video_game%29

:thumbup1:

This sounds it could easily be a sequel to "Freedom Fighters", where a NYC plumber-turned-guerrilla fights off a Soviet occupation.

[Weezer]

There was some recent "alternate history" game about having to retake the United States after hardliners take over the USSR Politboro and launch an invasion of the US Northwest in the 1980s. Can't remember the name of it, though.

That's been bothering me too. Anyone know the name?

[Sankofa]

Can we play North-Koreans? That would make it worth at least a bit of fun (I always love playing the bad guy).

During the single player campaign, definitely not.

But during multiplayer, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to play them since it's pretty much unheard for a modern shooter game not to have an online mode.

This game is ridiculous either way.

[Revy]

I'm not sure. But the game Freedom Fighters, released in 2003, was pretty similar.

"Freedom Fighters, originally titled Freedom: The Battle For Liberty Island, is a 2003 third-person shooter video game available for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows that is set in an alternate history. The player takes the role of Christopher Stone, a plumber-turned American Resistance movement leader who fights against the Red Army that invades and occupies New York City."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_%28video_game%29

d'oh. I should have read the first page. you already pointed that out.

[Revy]

Things like this get me so pissed that a very sick part of me wants scenarios liek that to actually happen. American women and children being slaughtered left and right, cities being razed to the ground, schools getting bombed, it's the shit.

Good thing I don't have superpowers.

Yeah, good thing you don't.:rolleyes:

[it_ain't_me]

Disgusting. A video game with the opposite scenario would be more accurate. the reverse scenario (US occupying Korea) already exists, it's called 'reality'

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

:thumbup1:

[Leonid Brozhnev]

No doubt it will be designed solely for a US audience... nothing but patriotic US garbage and 'COMMYS AR BAAD!' rhetoric with a goal to sully the already ill informed image of Communism. Stuff like this makes me barf hard... :bored:

[Sankofa]

the reverse scenario (US occupying Korea) already exists, it's called 'reality'

Well, of course they do. I was talking about northern Korea specifically. :)

[Tifosi]

Never seen people get so pissed off about a game before it even comes out *stands up and launches keyboard at PC screen in classic tennage boy way*

[Jeoh]

Oh noes, the game won't feature a proletarian view on the invasion of one imperialist country by another! Fuck off and enjoy the game (even though it'll likely be shit).

[this is an invasion]

All you nerds complaining about the politics in a video game need to go out and get some sun.

This sounds like an interesting story and I'm super down to play it.

[Tifosi]

the game won't feature a proletarian view on the invasion of one imperialist country by another!

It will, the view will be through the scope of a telescopic lense, motherfucking head shot:tongue_smilie:

[mykittyhasaboner]

Unless I can play as DPRK and get to hunt down the remains of the US military in this game, there's no chance I'm giving a try. We don't need another game/movie where americans fight off evil communist occupiers. The thought of stupid kids (or adults) playing these political games and taking the scenarios even somewhat seriously is sad.

World In Conflict: Soviet Assault, CoD: World at War, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Red Dead Redemption....these are some games socialists would enjoy. I can't see this new game being one of them.

[4 Leaf Clover]

please tell me you will be able to play koreans :D

[Os Cangaceiros]

Unless I can play as DPRK and get to hunt down the remains of the US military in this game, there's no chance I'm giving a try. We don't need another game/movie where americans fight off evil communist occupiers. The thought of stupid kids (or adults) playing these political games and taking the scenarios even somewhat seriously is sad.

World In Conflict: Soviet Assault, CoD: World at War, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Red Dead Redemption....these are some games socialists would enjoy. I can't see this new game being one of them.

I don't know man, the themes of video games have never been particularly important to me. I have no love for U.S. imperialism, but that doesn't stop me from shooting the crap out of Afghan militia members in COD4.

[Pirate Utopian]

Red Dead Redemption....these are some games socialists would enjoy.
Something anybody with taste would enjoy. Awesome game.

[LeninBalls]

I don't know man, the themes of video games have never been particularly important to me. I have no love for U.S. imperialism, but that doesn't stop me from shooting the crap out of Afghan militia members in COD4.

The sad thing is, it does sometimes for me D: There's been more than one occassion when I've noticed I'm the Marines and I'll just go "ugh" and leave.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

The sad thing is, it does sometimes for me D: There's been more than one occassion when I've noticed I'm the Marines and I'll just go "ugh" and leave.

I second this emotion. Ugh Marines.

[Dr Mindbender]

fuck me even the DOB entry is american-centric, the configuration is MM-DD-YYYY.

tbh after watching the video the game narrative it makes more sense, the DPRK annexes the ROK and Japan thereby seizing their assets. Still a bag of reactionary shite though.

[Sankofa]

I miss playing Battlefield: Vietnam. There was an equal opportunity game. Playing a Viet Cong and getting to hunt down the American soldiers was fun. :lol:

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Doesn't this always seem to happen when there's a country that opposes the U.S.? In "Mercenaries" you're in Korea fighting North Koreans and in "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames" you're fighting in Venezuela. Both games feature leaders who are eerily similar ideologically to their real life counter parts. I have both games though :laugh:, they're awesome.

[mykittyhasaboner]

I don't know man, the themes of video games have never been particularly important to me. I have no love for U.S. imperialism, but that doesn't stop me from shooting the crap out of Afghan militia members in COD4.

I don't find that politics are particularly important in games, it's just that there almost always god awful and it's annoying.

Perfect example, Modern Warfare -- fictional war with Russian Federation, "Ultra-nationalists" use hammer and sickle as their symbol, etc that shit is stupid. The only part of that game I felt was fitting was when you kill civilians in the Moscow airport as a CIA operative. Something about that just makes sense to me.


Something anybody with taste would enjoy. Awesome game.

Agreed. I anticipated that game for like a year and still wasn't prepared for how much I was going to like the game.

[Delegado J]

I shit on american falg

[AK]

Raise the black falg!

[RedScare]

Oh boy, more impossible Red Dawn-esque stuff for stupid people to intellectually masturbate over.

[Rusty Shackleford]

my favorite is red alert 1 because of the stalin video segments they were gr8t:

vN2zeRbu0x4 emo stalin

why i dont touch that series with a ten foot pole.

[The Guy]

America's still crying over 'Nam and Korea then...

[Pavlov's House Party]

i've noticed that american media has this obsession with being the invaded victim, who has to fight against the german/soviet/russian/korean etc, threat. i guess its every tea party gun waving nut's wetdream to fight off the evil asiatic threat on their own soil, even though it would pretty much never happen.

[Bilan]

Things like this get me so pissed that a very sick part of me wants scenarios liek that to actually happen. American women and children being slaughtered left and right, cities being razed to the ground, schools getting bombed, it's the shit.

Good thing I don't have superpowers.

Are you sure you're a communist?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Oh boy, more impossible Red Dawn-esque stuff for stupid people to intellectually masturbate over.

"intellectually"?

[soyonstout]

FiXOmBVpgUA

why are ducks Communists?

[Jeoh]

why are ducks Communists?

It's because of the goose stepping.

[soyonstout]

why are ducks Communists?

I realize this sounds like a set up for a terrible pun, but i can't think of a way to do it (quack, feather, webbed, bill, etc don't sound like any marxist terms I can think of).

[AK]

why are ducks Communists?
I have absolutely no clue.

On a slightly related note, many of my old usernames on RL were duck-related - and I used this avatar:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=541&pictureid=4669
I wish I knew where I found it...

EDIT: Here it is: http://www.evilcommieduck.com/