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* NauseaFuel: At one point you have to [[spoiler: hide in a mass grave to avoid getting shot. By the way the black guy's lifeless stare sticks in your mind.]]
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** Which is probably why John wrote the survivalists also doing equally bad things to Asian-Americans and trying to do the same to your ActionGirl sidekick plus...well... ''you.''
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** Hardly gone. After all, there's the OneManArmy that is you.
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* CriticalDissonance: The game only got mixed reviews from the critics, which contributed to a 20% drop in THQ stocks. The game is THQ's most pre-ordered game, selling 375,000 copies on the first day (pretty impressive for a new IP by a game company that's not [[Activision]] or EAGames, topped the UK charts until Crysis 2 came out and is still in the top ten, and recently surpassed one million units in sales worldwide (all in one week).
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* CriticalDissonance: The game only got mixed reviews from the critics, which contributed to a 20% drop in THQ stocks. The game is THQ's most pre-ordered game, selling 375,000 copies on the first day (pretty impressive for a new IP by a game company that's not [[Activision]] Activision or EAGames, EA games), topped the UK charts until Crysis 2 came out and is still in the top ten, and recently surpassed one million units in sales worldwide (all in one week).
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* CriticalDissonance: The game only got mixed reviews from the critics, which contributed to a 20% drop in THQ stocks. The game is THQ's most pre-ordered game, selling 375,000 copies, topped the UK charts until Crysis 2 came out and is still in the top ten, and recently surpassed one million units in sales worldwide (all in one week).
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* CriticalDissonance: The game only got mixed reviews from the critics, which contributed to a 20% drop in THQ stocks. The game is THQ's most pre-ordered game, selling 375,000 copies, copies on the first day (pretty impressive for a new IP by a game company that's not [[Activision]] or EAGames, topped the UK charts until Crysis 2 came out and is still in the top ten, and recently surpassed one million units in sales worldwide (all in one week).
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* CriticalDissonance: The game only got mixed reviews from the critics, which contributed to a 20% drop in THQ stocks. The game is THQ's most pre-ordered game, selling 375,000 copies, topped the UK charts until Crysis 2 came out and is still in the top ten, and recently surpassed one million units in sales worldwide (all in one week).
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: If you ''really'' hate the GKR, the survivalists would love to put a smile on your face.
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* NetrualEvil: The Survivalists are more than happy to do favors for both the Resistance and the Koreans, [[spoiler:but does not have any problems with screwing over both sides, if the opportunity arises, either. They also regularly submit their prisoners to torture and lynchings, purely for their own entertainment]].
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* NetrualEvil: NeutralEvil: The Survivalists are more than happy to do favors for both the Resistance and the Koreans, [[spoiler:but does not have any problems with screwing over both sides, if the opportunity arises, either. They also regularly submit their prisoners to torture and lynchings, purely for their own entertainment]].
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* ChaoticNeutral: The American survivalists just want to be left alone, and are often quite willing to sell your Resistance cell to the Koreans in exchange for benefits.
** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes, witness their torture of prisoners, and ''try to sell you to the Koreans for a reward.'' All for shit and giggles it seems. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.]]
** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes, witness their torture of prisoners, and ''try to sell you to the Koreans for a reward.'' All for shit and giggles it seems. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.]]
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** Also, see HarsherInHindsight above. Considering the devastating effects of the Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdown in RealLife, this qualifies incredibly well.
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** Also, see HarsherInHindsight above. Considering the devastating effects of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdown in RealLife, this qualifies incredibly well.
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** Also, see HarsherInHindsight above. Considering the devastating effects of the Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdown in RealLIfe, this qualifies incredibly well.
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** Also, see HarsherInHindsight above. Considering the devastating effects of the Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdown in RealLIfe, RealLife, this qualifies incredibly well.
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** Also, see HarsherInHindsight above. Considering the devastating effects of the Dai-ichi nuclear plant meltdown in RealLIfe, this qualifies incredibly well.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Old newspaper articles in the game talk about the GKR deliberately destroying a Japanese nuclear power plant...
* HarsherInHindsight: Old newspaper articles in the game talk about the GKR deliberately destroying a Japanese nuclear power plant...
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* UnfortunateImplications: YMMV on this one. The North Korean forces are treated as effectively CommieNazis but the atrocities committed by their forces may be TruthInTelevision. Ironically, John Milinus actually devotes an entire level to the game about killing xenophobic Korean-hating Americans in addition to having a Korean American teammate.
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* NightmareFuel: If the mass graves weren't bad enough. Once players stumbled upon the CrazySurvivalist camp later in the game, prepare to see [[spoiler: lynched Korean soldiers, rotting heads on a pike, and impaled prisoners ala Vlad The Impaler. ]] just to name a few.
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** [[spoiler: The Survivalists cross it when they intend to lynch your Asian American buddy and keep your African American girl as a sex toy.]]
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** [[spoiler: The Survivalists cross it when they intend to lynch your Asian American buddy and keep your African American girl as a sex toy.within minutes of meeting you.]]
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** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.]]
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** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes.pikes, witness their torture of prisoners, and ''try to sell you to the Koreans for a reward.'' All for shit and giggles it seems. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.]]
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** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes]]. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.
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** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes]].pikes. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.]]
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** They [[spoiler: want to lynch your Korean American resistance buddy and keep your black plucky resistance fighter as a sex slave. That's ''before'' you see their collection of heads on pikes]]. Trust me, they're ChaoticEvil.
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* MoralEventHorizon: The North Koreans cross it in the opening level and keep going.
** [[spoiler: The Survivalists cross it when they intend to lynch your Asian American buddy and keep your African American girl as a sex toy.]]
** If you had any sympathy for the North Koreans after the opening level, it was lost by the time you find [[spoiler: a mass grave where all of the re-education subjects were systematically executed and put into a gigantic pile to be forgotten.]] Did we mention you had to [[spoiler: lay down in the corpses to hide from them?]]
** [[spoiler: The Survivalists cross it when they intend to lynch your Asian American buddy and keep your African American girl as a sex toy.]]
** If you had any sympathy for the North Koreans after the opening level, it was lost by the time you find [[spoiler: a mass grave where all of the re-education subjects were systematically executed and put into a gigantic pile to be forgotten.]] Did we mention you had to [[spoiler: lay down in the corpses to hide from them?]]
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* NightmareFuel: If the mass graves weren't bad enough. Once players stumbled upon the CrazySurvivalist camp later in the game, prepare to see [[spoiler: lynched Korean soldiers, rotting heads on a pike, and impaled prisoners ala Vlad The Impaler. ]] just to name a few.
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** This troper did notice how the game seemed to end in (what he thinks) is the middle of the story. Homefront 2 is already in the works according to WordOfGod, so we can hope to get more character development and plot. Oh, and they said they would make a longer campaign so long as it didn't compromise multiplayer.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: What some reviews said about the game's single player, arguing that the entire occupied US thing could had been explored in greater detail, along with more character development, but was nudged aside for [[ModernWarfare C]][[CallOfDutyBlackOps O]][[CallOfDuty D]] style gameplay and typical shooter mechanics. They were much more friendlier on the multiplayer though.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: What some reviews said about the game's single player, arguing that the entire occupied US thing could had been explored in greater detail, along with more character development, but was nudged aside for [[ModernWarfare C]][[CallOfDutyBlackOps O]][[CallOfDuty D]] style gameplay and typical shooter mechanics.mechanics, putting the campaign into SoOkayItsAverage territory. They were much more friendlier on the multiplayer though.
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* GameBreaker: At the time of release, sniper rifles, which have very little sway and very high damage.
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** The US thing is a little less Sui-ish than it might seem; the nation had been weakened by worldwide economic troubles, the States had been given autonomy, so their wasn't any real organized resistance other than in-state forces. Desertion was probably rampant, with soldiers leaving to protect their homes, even before the Mississippi was irradiated, and the KPA EMP Sat knocked out just about every electronic device on the continent.
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** The US thing is a little less Sui-ish than it might seem; the nation had been weakened by worldwide economic troubles, the States had been given autonomy, so their wasn't any real organized resistance other than in-state forces. Desertion was probably rampant, with soldiers leaving to protect their homes, even before the Mississippi was irradiated, and the KPA EMP Sat knocked out just about every electronic device on the continent.continent.
*** On in-game newspaper notes that when Canada closed it's borders to the US (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country, soldiers or otherwise.
*** On in-game newspaper notes that when Canada closed it's borders to the US (thus requiring a visa to enter), there were also new laws requiring permits for food, materials, medicine, and other supplies. The implication is that a lot of people were trying to leave the country, soldiers or otherwise.
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** A dev diary makes a point of noting how the Resistance always operates in cells, so if one is compromised, they won't jeopardize the rest. This is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_cell a strategic decision with a long and effective history]], most noticeable in the WW2 French Resistance.
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* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. Hell, that's [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency right there.
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* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. Hell, that's [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency right there.there.
** The US thing is a little less Sui-ish than it might seem; the nation had been weakened by worldwide economic troubles, the States had been given autonomy, so their wasn't any real organized resistance other than in-state forces. Desertion was probably rampant, with soldiers leaving to protect their homes, even before the Mississippi was irradiated, and the KPA EMP Sat knocked out just about every electronic device on the continent.
** The US thing is a little less Sui-ish than it might seem; the nation had been weakened by worldwide economic troubles, the States had been given autonomy, so their wasn't any real organized resistance other than in-state forces. Desertion was probably rampant, with soldiers leaving to protect their homes, even before the Mississippi was irradiated, and the KPA EMP Sat knocked out just about every electronic device on the continent.
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* HollywoodTactics: Usually averted; shortly after Jacobs' rescue by the Resistance, the cell comes across KPA infantry on the ground, with an MG on the second floor, which is more or less right out of the playbook. [[spoiler:After Arnie betrays the cell, the KPA keeps Hopper and Connor pinned down on the ground with an MG, while troops move to flank on the second floor.]] Basically, if Jacobs couldn't WalkItOff, he'd be dead.
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* ChaoticNeutral: The American survivalists just want to be left alone, and are often quite willing to sell your Resistance cell to the Koreans in exchange for benefits.
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Nobel committee give Kim-Jong Um a Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully reuniting Korea. Five years later, the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan.
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Nobel committee give Kim-Jong Um a Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully reuniting Korea. Five years later, the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan.Japan.
* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. Hell, that's [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency right there.
* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un manages to take a backwater, underdeveloped pariah of a nation and uses it to gain control of South Korean (presumably in a sufficiently subversive, non-violent manner that he credibly gets the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so), takes over several major neighboring nations, and build up the Korean army to the point that it's able to successfully take over the United States. Hell, that's [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency right there.
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* MemeticMutation: Since Japan is replacing every reference to Korea with a "Nothern Country", [[CanadaEh Canada]] is apparently the greatest threat in the known world.
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* IdiotPlot: If the world would have woken up when the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan, then we wouldn't have this story at all.
** [[WorldWarII Um?]]
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** [[WorldWarII Um?]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: A majority of the events in this game could actually happen in real life. Any hope for the future is gone.
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: North Koreans, survivalists, and ultrapatriots to name a few.
* ChaoticGood: You play as the American resistance fighter against the Greater Korean Republic occupation.
* IdiotPlot: If the world would have woken up when the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan, then we wouldn't have this story at all.
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* LawfulEvil: The Greater Korean Republic
* ParanoiaFuel: A majority of the events in this game could actually happen in real life. Any hope for the future isgone.gone.
* WhatAnIdiot: The Nobel committee give Kim-Jong Um a Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully reuniting Korea. Five years later, the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan.
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* WhatAnIdiot: The Nobel committee give Kim-Jong Um a Nobel Peace Prize for peacefully reuniting Korea. Five years later, the Greater Korean Republic invades Japan.
