Is Homefront Possible?
The controversial plot is more plausible than you think.
Predicting the future can be a precarious ordeal. Just ask the developers at Kaos Studios, the minds behind the upcoming first-person shooter Homefront. In Homefront, gamers are exposed to a dark, dreary world set in the late 2020s where a unified Korea has overtaken the United States.
In this fictional future, the United States has declined, its power and prestige completely disintegrated. The world's economy has spiraled out of control, largely due to a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia that sends gas prices sky-high. Meanwhile, the most unlikely of foils rises to the fore in the form of a unified Korea under the leadership of the North Korean cult of personality. After taking over much of East Asia, Korea sets its sights on the United States. And by detonating a space-borne EMP, obliterating the United States' electronic infrastructure, Korea is easily able to land troops in Hawaii, along the western seaboard and in the midwest.