So, with our investment in the struggle completely not established, the game finally gets going, with a shuddering cough, and a little squirt of piss into its pants. who mistake us for a spy and takes us to be interrogated by their sadistic torturer, and I guess we're supposed to think it's cute this time? What purpose could these sadistic torturer speed-dating sequences sequences possibly have, except to establish that both sides are cocks? And the Schmorth Scmoreans at least have better hygiene. Oh, but the evil lurking behind the friendly façade of the occupying force is revealed in the intro sequence, as our character is interrogated by a sadistic torturer before escaping and rejoining the resistance. I don't know, it doesn't seem like Korth Norea can run the place any worse. The problem is, or rather the first problem on the dizzying pile I prepared for today, is that while the whole alt-universe thing asks us to mentally disassociate from the North Korea we're familiar with, we're simultaneously asked to root for America based on our knowledge of the real world version, rather than the deadbeat nation-wide slum presented for us here. Dancing a twelve foot radius around it is just undignified.Īnyway, the People's Republic of Chorea call in the debt, occupy and enslave the US, and you're part of a guerilla resistance movement to take the country back. Guys, if you want the villains to be China, just make the villains China. In Homefront world, North Korea is a global center of tech manufacturing, and the US is cripplingly indebted to it. It's actually called Homefront: THE Revolution. Incidentally, well done for using the single most overused subtitle you fucking- Oh, hang on, my mistake. The first Homefront was a linear shooter about as worth committing to memory as the lyrics to Agadoo, and Homefront: Revolution seems barely connected at all. I feel like the starting point must have been a slightly creepy desire to kill North Koreans, and then they had to tortuously contrive a scenario in which the conflict wasn't totally unfair. But if you're gonna make alt-North Korea so wildly different to the real world equivalent, then why even call it North Korea? Call it Bastardstan, or Spermany. Oh but it's alright, it's an alternative universe North Korea, that found a whole bunch of money and military tech in a Christmas cracker or something, and now wants to muscle a considerably weaker country on the other side of the world, for no adequate reason. The contemporary shooter hinging on the ever so slightly barmy premise that North Korea could be a credible threat, rather than the national equivalent of a talkative Counter-Strike player. Well, here's a franchise I never thought would have the balls to show its face around these parts again - Homefront. This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Homefront The Revolution.
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