Philadelphia is under total Korean control, and it’s up to the player and the resistance to break their stranglehold. Smash cut to the near future and debt-ridden America’s reliance on (compromised) North Korean technology has enabled the ‘Norks’ to infiltrate security networks and sweep across the US: first offering help to stricken, bankrupt US citizens, then cracking down in a brutal fashion. 70s Steve Jobs is Korean, essentially, and so Silicon Valley becomes Silicon River, Bill Gates goes to work for the Apex Corporation, and the concept of reserve currency doesn’t exist. ![]() It’s not a great one either, but it works as an urban Far Cry-alike, and in terms of mood and atmosphere it is surprisingly accomplished.ĭeveloper Dambuster Studios has, in a bid to lend authenticity to the setup, retconned the series’ nonsense backstory – North Korea invades the US – into yet more nonsense backstory. ![]() Surprisingly, despite its difficult production, it is not a terrible game. It could easily have limped out and been terrible, a warning about the turbulence and expense of the video games business. ![]() ![]() Homefront: The Revolution is the game that wouldn’t die, a survivor of failed publishers and near-total design changes, a sequel nobody wanted to a game not enough people bought.
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