How ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts’ is a rip-off of ‘Homefront’

Acclaimed screen writer, Stephen Gaghan, created a story for 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' that breaks from the typical “America’s the best”-bravado and instead takes player to a vulnerable America that is fighting to protect its sovereignty. However its a story that ripped off 'Homefront',the 2011 game written by John Milius.

[Enemy]

Except Homefront was the better game.

[static5245]

I liked Homefront for the most part but that AI for the people you fought along side with was horrible.. Couldn't tell you how many time I died because of them

[coolbeans]

Ehhh...I find both of them to be close in quality with Ghosts being a tad better, but that's not exactly saying a whole lot.

[ChronoJoe]

I agree but I think Homefront told a much, much better story. Which ultimately held my attention better. Homefront was actually really good I was just disappointed that it only had something like 4 multiplayer maps - big let down in that department.

[coolbeans]

Although I was glued to Homefront's story much more, I don't really think that had to do with quality. I mean...it's so stupid to anticipate North Korea just getting all this property because reasons and amassing such an army; however, it's in Mulius (and whatever other writers) having such a seemingly legit conviction in making such an absurd idea believable that gives it such a charm.

After a while, those newspaper clippings by 'Muliusadomus' became so much more and more detailed that it almost felt like he was madly writing all of these reasons just to give himself a reason to purchase more ammo.

[0neShot]

Really? Mediocre less than 6 hrs SP? MP became a BF wanna be that failed to lift off? PS2 like graphics? Didn't you get the memo that it was a terrible game reviewed by reputable game sites? That it forced it's publisher to close down the studio that developed it? The publisher then subsequently filed for bankruptcy?

Oh, I get it it, you are nothing but a troll.

[Majin-vegeta]

Homefront looks like a good movie...oh wait we're talking about the game??That game had a lot of potential but if they release a second one lets hope they pick it up where they went wrong.

[TIER1xWOLFPACKx]

crytek bought the rights to homefront so dont expect anything spectacular gameplay wise it will have nice visuals but the gameplay will be lackluster

[MrCrimson]

I like the Crysis games. They are pretty fun.

[TIER1xWOLFPACKx]

@crimson yeah im not saying the crysis games are bad but to me they lack replay value and the multiplayer is hit and miss

[Demoa]

they even copied the cover art

[LightofDarkness]

It's most likely they just jumped on the whole White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen idea that seems to be popular among the dudebro movie goers.

[TheEnigma313]

I know I'm definitely in the minority here, but the last military shooter I thoroughly enjoyed was The Medal of Honor remake. I still play the multiplayer.

[TIER1xWOLFPACKx]

are you on about medal of honor warfighter or the first remake medal of honour? those games were actually pretty good i still play the multiplayer now and again, the campaign wasnt anything spectacular but it was good

[TheEnigma313]

I'm talking about the first remake. I didn't like the campaign, but I loved the multiplayer. It reminded me of COD4. I loved the sound of the guns, maps, perks; it was awesome.

[InTheLab]

Loved the single player but dice really screwed up the multiplayer. It managed to be worse than Ghosts.

[TheEnigma313]

DO you mean warfighter? I didn't play that one; looked terrible. The first one was great though.

[Kornholic]

cochise_313, I enjoyed Medal of Honor (2010) as well. Still playing the multiplayer on pc.

[TheEnigma313]

Yeah same here. There's still a few hundred people who play it.

[InTheLab]

Meant the reboot not warfighter. Played an hour of war fighter and knew it was trash.

[darren_poolies]

I loved Homefront! And am quite excited for the sequel, even if it is Crytek developing it.

[TheEnigma313]

Is it really Crytek? SO it will be pretty but questionable gameplay. I hope they do well on it.

[InTheLab]

A rip off of a rip off. What happens when the original runs out of ideas and starts biting the clones? I call it "ghosting".

Played extinction the other night and that mode really hammers home the point. It's just more proof that all talent of the cod4 team called it quits in the middle of cod6 and the MW series has been $17t ever since.

So it's not surprising they bit the idea of an attack on American soil by an extremely unlikely enemy. When you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas, of course you'll eventually dig up bits of home front. Hell, why not sweeten the deal and steal from Timeshift. At least that game was fun.

[wheresmymonkey]

Ghosts didn't rip off homefront, they're both inspired by Red Dawn. You might want to look it up. There;s been films and books about America's enemies invading for donkey's years.

[Dogswithguns]

The faces, both looked very similar too.

[Tolkoto]

Inception levels of ripping off.

[johny5]

BLACK for the playstation 2.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[0neShot]

Dumb article. It is more like Homefront ripped off COD MW2. COD MW2 have you fighting in your neighborhood against foreign armies. MW2 brought the fight right in the States. Homefront simply use this as a plot and tried to add lackluster drama.

[stanr]

Actually that level in 'MW2' your referring to was a homage to the movie 'Red Dawn'. Meanwhile 'Homefront' was created by John Milius who wrote and directed 'Red Dawn'.

[MrCrimson]

Uh except they are all Red Dawn knock offs.

[unluckynumber11]

Also the fact that they ripped off GI Joe Retaliation, with the ODIN platform being the Zeus platform Cobra Commander used, didn't even try to hide that fact.

[Section8]

I loved Homefront but people bashed the shit out of it. But the COD franchise had this story before Homefront released. Starting with MW2.