00:01PEGI 18
00:06Homefront was a first-person shooter. It's set in the year 2027.
00:10One of the main hooks of Homefront is its premise. It's an Occupation USA setting.
00:14Homefront's an opportunity for us to tell a story that's near and dear to our hearts,
00:17in an environment that's very familiar but has been warped beyond recognition.
00:20It's a story of really survival and adaptation.
00:23What it feels like to be part of a resistance fighting for your country,
00:26to give the last full measure for something that you really believe in.
00:31In a lot of other games, you know, you blow into a place, you know, a slum or something like
00:35that,
00:35and you kill 100 people, and at the end of the level, you jump into a helicopter and fly away.
00:39You know, at the end of our levels, there's no helicopter.
00:41You have to stay and live with the things that you did.
00:44Bringing 2027 to life in kind of a suburban and rural setting
00:48all comes down to picking the things that everybody's extremely familiar with.
00:53The buckets are now water collectors.
00:55The children's toys are still there, but they might just be repurposed for something else.
00:59This is a survivalist nation now.
01:01Now, it's about being a member of a resistance cell in occupied America
01:05and doing what it takes to liberate your country from this alien oppressor.
01:10The idea for Homefront actually came from a few different angles, really.
01:13One of them was Red Dawn. You know, I watched that, and that was very inspirational.
01:17John Milius is like a great American film creator.
01:19Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn, and Conan.
01:21He's just the type of guy that has this natural creative ability.
01:25He just knows when something's good.
01:27He really brings, like, 30 years of storytelling experience to us.
01:33Speculative fiction basically means we are giving the audience what-if situations.
01:39What if America was invaded by Korea?
01:41What if this happened? And then filling out the answers to that.
01:44And that's really where the high premise of Homefront comes from.
01:47We said, what if USA was occupied? What would it be like to experience that future?
01:51Historically, there are multiple examples of sudden rises and sudden falls.
01:56Ancient Greece, Mongolia, Japan.
01:59So when you say, how could a mighty power like the USA fall?
02:02It's really a combination of elements.
02:04It's the decline of the USA due to internal factors and global geopolitical situation.
02:09And there's a war in the Middle East, there's Saudi Arabia and Iran involved,
02:12and that disrupts oil supplies and the rise of a new power.
02:16The United States' big weakness is their just-in-time economy.
02:19Your local supermarket has three days' worth of stocks on the shelves.
02:22If something gets in the way and disrupts that, that's it for our country, you know?
02:25Our country is on the razor's edge.
02:28The North Koreans are the perfect enemy.
02:29The only North Korean that anybody knows is Kim Jong-il.
02:31This morning comes the news of Kim Jong-il's death.
02:35North Koreans greet their new supreme leader, Kim Jun-un.
02:38The North Koreans actually have the world's fourth largest standing army,
02:42which a lot of people don't know about.
02:44Now, what happens in the storyline is that we have North Korea being unified with South Korea
02:49to form one country where it has the economic power and modern military equipment.
02:55And within the storyline, we also have North Korea being in conflict with Japan.
02:59And training on American weapons and getting a lot of modern training
03:04and really building up a military from the other countries in the East Asia region.
03:08North Korea is able to invade the United States through its well-prepared military strikes.
03:16That involves an EMP strike.
03:19EMP is an electromagnetic pulse.
03:21It sends out a particular type of energy that blankets the earth,
03:25and what that does is it deactivates modern electronics.
03:33You see things that aren't supposed to be happening.
03:35You know, this little town Main Street, and it's got law and pa shops and bakeries and banks,
03:40but there's soldiers and there's barbed wire.
03:41And that's kind of the genesis of where this phrase, the familiar, has become alien, has come from.
03:46We want to show America, but twisted.
03:49War in the back suburbs, war in the elementary school playgrounds, baseball fields, high schools.
03:54Golden Gate Bridge becomes a battlefield.
03:56That's pretty darn alien if you ask me.
03:58It takes seeing an enemy hurting innocent people in front of you to make you understand why you're doing the
04:06things that you're doing.
04:07This is your backyard. This is, this is literally home front.
04:11You're in the middle of this.
04:12Yeah, I know this was fine.
04:19And I think a lot of people have seen before the tiger is.
04:19I think a lot of people are getting rid of this.
04:19In the middle of this story,
04:20look, I'm going to go to the ground.
04:21You're the main reason for the three-year-old.
04:21It's probably one of the biggest people who've ever been trying to do.
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