History YMMV / Homefront

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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: A substantial portion of articles have been written about the game being racist against Asians because the North Koreans have invaded the USA. Ironically, a fifth of the game is devoted to killing racists against Asians.

*** Arguably, the {{CrazySurvivalist}}s are ''much worse''. [[spoiler: They capture ''anyone'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike who have East Asian ancestry]], not just anyone with Korean descent. These guys ''torture and lynch them'', ''and hang the corpses of Korean soldiers as prized trophies'' [[ForTheEvulz just out of sheer racism and personal enjoyment]]. Heck, they are so monstrous that even [[HeroicSociopath Connor]] is fed up with them.]] It is clear that while John Milius [[http://www.nrawinningteam.com/milius.html is a strong supporter of gun ownership and a member of the NRA]], he clearly does not want to be associated with the survivalist idealogy.

** Luckily, THQ has confirmed that Homefront 2 will be developed [[ChannelHop at a different studio called THQ Montreal]].

* ChaoticGood: You play as the American resistance fighter against the Greater Korean Republic occupation.

* LawfulEvil: The Greater Korean Republic

* 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]].

*** Arguably, the {{CrazySurvivalist}}s are ''much worse''. [[spoiler: They capture ''anyone'' who have East Asian ancestry, not just anyone with Korean descent. These guys ''torture and lynch them'', ''and hang the corpses of Korean soldiers as prized trophies'' [[ForTheEvulz just out of sheer racism and personal enjoyment]]. Heck, they are so monstrous that even [[HeroicSociopath Connor]] is fed up with them.]] It is clear that while John Milius [[http://www.nrawinningteam.com/milius.html is a strong supporter of gun ownership and a member of the NRA]], he clearly does not want to be associated with the survivalist idealogy.

* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un. On one hand, he 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. On the surface, this looks like [[TheDraka Draka]]-level hypercompetency.\\
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On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (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--and this is all before the GKR fried almost every non-hardened piece of electronic hardware in North America with an EMP.

* CompleteMonster: The entire Greater Korean Republic off all spades. To elaborate, one of the first scenes in the game involves two KPA soldiers killing a woman ''with her child being forced to watch it''. [[WouldHurtAChild And it's heavily implied that they killed the child too]].

* UnfortunateImplications: The North Korean forces are treated as effectively CommieNazis, but the atrocities committed by their forces may be TruthInTelevision. To balance things out a bit, John Millus actually devotes an entire level to the game about killing xenophobic Korean-hating Americans in addition to having a Korean American teammate.

* UnfortunateImplications: The North Korean forces are treated as effectively CommieNazis, but the atrocities committed by their forces may be TruthInTelevision. Ironically, John Millus actually devotes an entire level to the game about killing xenophobic Korean-hating Americans in addition to having a Korean American teammate.

** Still haven't hate them yet, wait till they [[spoiler:find the resistance hideout, Oasis, and ''kill ever man, woman, and child'']].

* CompleteMonster: The Greater Korean Republic.

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: A substantial portion of articles have been written about the game being racist against Asians because the North Koreans have invaded the USA. Ironically, a fifth of the game is devoted to killing racists against Asians.

** Luckily, THQ has confirmed that Homefront 2 will be developed [[ChannelHope at a different studio called THQ Montreal]].

On the other hand, there are mitigating factors. The United States (as well as other major world powers) had been weakened by a global economic crisis. In the case of the U.S., the situation was so bad that the states were given autonomy and were just a few steps away from civil war. The Asian Bird Flu epidemic only made things worse. One in-game newspaper article notes that when Canada closed its borders to the U.S. (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.

* VillainSue: Kim Jong-Un. On one hand, he 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. On the surface, this looks like {{Draka}}-level hypercompetency.\\

* HarsherInHindsight: Old newspaper articles in the game talk about the GKR deliberately destroying a Japanese nuclear power plant...

* ParanoiaFuel: A majority of the events in this game could actually happen in real life. Any hope for the future is gone.
** Hardly gone. After all, there's the OneManArmy that is you.
** [[{{Understatement}} Slightly]] weakened by the fact that the majority of events doesn't include most of the backstory, especially the ones involving North Korea, and that a number of the backstory events that, in and of themselves, are plausible, have their effects be suspension-of-disbelief stretchingly restricted to the USA without explanation for why they follow the borders so perfectly.
* MemeticMutation: Since Japan is replacing every reference to Korea with a "Nothern Country", [[CanadaEh Canada]] is apparently the greatest threat in the known world.

** 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?]]

* 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.]]

* 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, putting the campaign into SoOkayItsAverage territory. They were much more friendlier on the multiplayer though.
** 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.
* 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.

* 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.
** 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.
*** 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.

* IdiotPlot: If the world would have woken up when the Greater Korean Republic invaded Japan, then we wouldn't have this story at all. If there had been a slightly less insane method of attacking the bus, the Resistance would have had three pilots instead of one. If anyone had thought that perhaps a security tower a hundred yards from a tunnel exit was a sign the Koreans were closing in on Oasis, Boone would have survived. Etc.

** 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.

%% NOTE TO EDITORS: Please stop trying to slap "Idiot Plot" in here. See the discussion page for reasons why.

** At the same time, user reviews and ratings seem to be a lot harsher than the professional ones.