IGN: Hard Questions for Homefront

IGN recently had a chance to play the opening chapter of Homefront, Kaos Studio's upcoming FPS, and had a few tough questions for Rex Dickson, the game's Lead Level Designer.

[trainsinrdr]

homefront vs crysis 2 vs killzone 3 vs resistance 3 vs bulletstorm vs rage

[toaster]

How is that even remotely relevant to the interview...

[trainsinrdr]

because we both mention homefront :P

[Wenis]

Battlefield 3 will defeat them all.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

@wenis, not if they pull that bad company shit again

[Belasco]

vs vs vs

[xAlmostPro]

That IGN guy seemed like he was trying way hard to be smart and kept getting put back down by the homefront guy.. he also seemed heavily against the fact that its america thats been taken over lol..

either way it gave great insight to the game, and i think homefront is shaping up really well.

It isn't the prettiest game but i coudn't care less if its bringing something fresh to the FPS table :)

Possible COD killer in the making anyone? it won't reach the sales but the single players looks like it will out-perform the COD SP.. and alot of people are getting ed up with CODs multiplayer and this has the similar multi-player as in fast paced shooting and reactions. They have a great chance with this and it looks like they know it.

Cant wait for this game :D

[Ducky]

"If you put your crosshair on someone, your bullet's going to hit, that's how shooters work. "

I can think of some games in which that doesn't always happen...

...

... like Stalker on easy difficulty. (One of which was also published by THQ!)
I don't know, I kinda would've liked it if your character's hands trembled like crazy the first time you pointed a gun at someone.

I wonder if someone will read the interview and pick up the bit where they call Killzone an exhausting experience. *throws gasoline*
Lotsa Half-Life inspiration too.

The game doesn't look that interesting to me, however it appears the team working behind the game is devoted, and I might just buy it because of that.

[Wenis]

That IGN guy sounded like a real douchebag. I would never give an interview to this guy if I were a developer. Its like he was trying to debate the dev instead of actually interviewing him. Didn't seem very respectful that he was even getting to interview him.

[Trizard]

I got that exactly same feeling, too. I mean wtf is this interviewer doing, just trying to piss off the dev? Let's take his the third to last question where the interviewer completely bashes the story arc about N. Korea invading America. I mean really, this is fiction and if the interview had any sense in him, he would read all the articles about back story of the game and realize that N. Korea formed an alliance with most of the other Eastern Asian countries possibly including China (but def. including Japan and the island's) so it actually is plausible. Especially with their future growing nuclear arsenal that they can use for persuasion/annexation. This guy is retarded IMHO.

[madjedi]

@Trizard Yeah it's the last part you call him retarded for i call you an idiot for in my opinion, north korea attacked south korea twice not long ago and japan trusts north korea as much as israel trusts iran.

Future growing nuclear arsenal, thats not happening in this day and age even the us and former soviet union are slowly scrapping their nuclear arsenal, and the rest of the world doesn't want more countries with nuclear weapons. Hence why iran has sanctions out the ass against them.

North koreas technology comes from china and other communist nations, they can't even survive without donations from other countries. So yeah right technically plausible, but queue in common sense and reality and you get a different outcome altogether genius.

This might very well be a solid fun game, but i agree with the interviewer the devs picked the worst possible nation to put against the us, china would have been alot more realistic choice than north korea.

I don't care if it's fiction, it still one of the stupidest scenarios i have ever heard of, fyi nuclear weapons are obsolete, hydrogen bombs create the same destruction without the toxic radiation.

Google the cuban missile crisis to understand why threatening other countries with nukes is a very bad idea for everyone involved.

[Trizard]

@Madjedi, you sir obviously don't watch the news. If North Korea wanted to invade S. Korea now, the easily could and hold all the past defenders of S. Korea, like the U.S. and NATO at bay with their arsenal of nukes (which I'm sure they have already because the U.S. is doing as much there as in Iran). The with S. Korea included, they could probably annex Japan by threatening nuclear holocaust, one nuke on Toyko takes out 25 million people btw. Then they could easily take the small nations of micronesia and then take Indonesia as well as singapore, two more global economies under N. Korea's belt. Then they would probably form some East Pacific Union with china or something and be a huge superpower. This would be the logical approach to for Kim Jong Il to take.

[MidnytRain]

It really did seem like the interviewer was attacking the developers at Kaos. It was like he was trying to make the team and their game look bad. But it was a very informative review. I no longer think this game is just another generic military shooter. I like that feeling of a desperate struggle against seemingly overwhelming odds; this is where Resistance: Fall of Man really shined for me.

[gamer2010]

You're right. That interviewer was a douche bag. His arguments were weak anyway.

[Op24]

This game is going to sell just for the story. I mean honestly I haven't seen a game in a while that gets you into the real feeling of desperation. This is number 1 on my list so far this year. Honestly I couldn't care less if it play like a normal shooter. The scavaging for ammo sounds great. I don't want to feel like some bad ass tier 1 like they said. I want to feel like I'm forced to come out of my home to defend friends and family.

[Arup02]

This game looks really neat, loiks better than CoD tough

[Sidewinder-]

Fox News is gonna love this game lol.

I'm very interested with it myself, but i got a hunch it's gonna be a 6hour affair.

On the flip-side i can see how it could (and should) be a much longer game. It's story driven. I wanna get to know these characters well, gain some emotional attachment at least, would make it all the more engrossing...unlike Halo Reach with your buddies dropping like flies before you've even got yourself comfy in your Mjolnir armour... But yes, hold your pitchforks, i do realise tht Halo's multiplayer driven nowadays; wasn't always so but by god, it is now.

[SMW]

Nice Work IGN.

You just made your selves look like total fuck wits.

[Sarcasm]

As if they didn't already look like it

[xThe Tamingx]

This game looks like its gonna be good but also looks like it could be a flop... hard to decide, still gonna prolly rent it though

[xc7x]

campaign seems lame [imo] but online could be a blast?

[Bolts]

Hard to blame IGN when the fiction for this game is so impossible it's borders on stupid. North Korea invading America? LMAO!! This country is so poor it can't even feed itself nevermind amassing enough fuel, a deep water navy, and air power for such an operation.

Why can't they stick with a more probable scenario, like aliens or Mexican drug lords invading America?

[SMW]

55 years ago japan kicked 15 shades of shit out of china and occupied a good deal of their territory.

The world changes...

[xAlmostPro]

it really doesn't seem as stupid as people are making out..

Do you forget attacks such as pearl harbour.. what if japan actually won that war(in a fictional sense) and began taking over the US from then forward up until the date the game is set in.. in a fictional world anything could be a possibility.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

set 17 years in the future you mongaloid, can you accurately predict the.....nahhh your just another kid in his bedroom, in his pants, smelling of your last fart with acess to the internet and thus an opinion.

[Bolts]

LOL, and what are you, the voice of reason Mr. Mongaloid? Right, 17 years in the future North Korea will amass the military and economic might to invade North America. This would make sense if they have any access to fuel reserves and some semblance of an industrial base. Which they do not. As for Japan's WW 2 conquests, in WW I Japan was region power with the Navy and industry to defeat Russia and by time Pearl Harbor rolled around they were already a power house. Japan's military didn't magically appeared out of thin air and cross the Pacific Ocean.

If North Korea want to achieve the same the thing then they best start invading the South next week.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

Thanks for the compliment sweetheart, Well the leader of north korea unifies korea in the story then assimilates alot of other asian countries into his empire and japan being one of them because they fear being over run.

Oil could be one of the reasons for invading america and like I said in 17 years it can change alot. they cant even acurrately predict the weather so how the hell could anyone accurately predict what will happen in 2027.

Your another american who thinks their country is invincible, thats why the concept of homefront seems so alien to you. And well if thats how it makes you feel then the game designers have achieved their goal in terms of story.

Also the game is centered around the enconmoic collapse of america aswell so Americas military would obviously be crippled

[Sidewinder-]

IS right Markus!