Before I quote a little bit of the story and then give a link to the full story I thought about it for a while. This is a very controversial topic and game, please do not argue about who is right and who is wrong. I just simply wanted to share with everyone a different type of game that I don't believe any of us have ever played before. The full story is kinda a long read but IMO it is worth it. I believe I will pick this game up for the single player portion, which is a first for me, typically I buy for the multiplayer. In fact I have never bought a game strictly for the single player portion. If the multiplayer is good and they have dedicated servers then that will just be a bonus for me. Ok, here we go...
A Video Game That Dares To Make Americans Angry
A Video Game That Dares To Make Americans Angry
I have little animosity for the virtual people I shoot in video games. They are cardboard targets. The worst they can do is kill the virtual me. My "death" lasts a few seconds. I can't hate them for that.
This changed last week.
I played the beginning of the upcoming first-person shooter Homefront and I felt a burning urge in the game to do right with the trigger of a virtual gun. Homefront is set in a near-future United States that has become occupied by a bellicose unified Korea.
Early on, in what would be cliche in film but feels novel in a game, my character was arrested in his U.S. apartment by Korean occupation police, handcuffed, shoved into a bus and forced to ride past lines of Americans taken prisoner. As the bus rolled past, I saw enemy soldiers roughing up civilians.
And then I heard the pitched, despairing voice of a mother telling her child not to look. To turn away. To not let what was going to happen next be an unforgetable scar. The scene came into view: a child wailing as his parents are lined up against a wall and shot to death.
I wanted to climb out of that bus and take action. Soon, a resistance fighter rammed the bus with a truck, freed my character and handed me a machine gun. For the first time in a war game, I wanted to make the bad guys pay.
A Video Game That Dares To Make Americans Angry
Full Story:
http://kotaku.com/5682584/a-video-game-designed-to-make-americans-angry
