Homefront

As day two of PAX East ends I come to realize that I only played three video games today, and stood in place for several hours. This article is about one of those games: Homefront.
Homefront, being developed by Koas Studios, was there in its entirety on the PAX floor but I only stayed to play the first level. The game starts with an introduction to how North Korea successfully occupies the United States and most of the Pacific. The introduction leads to a cut scene where you are arrested by North Korean police and are dragged onto a school bus turned prisoner transport. There, you are able to turn your head to witness the brutality of the North Korean rule; people being arrested, squatters living in tents, couples being torn from one another, people being executed for running, people being forced into labor camps, and a couple being executed in front of a small child. This successfully instilled hatred towards the North Korean occupiers. After the introduction you begin combat. Combat is the same combat we have come to know in this Call of Duty FPS world; sprint to cover, hit B to duck, fire at the enemy. The combat was fun if you like modern FPS, which I do. The level was fun but I did find flaws in the game. The graphics were great but there was heavy pixelating if the player looked at NPCs and turned. The grenade throwing motion is awkward and, while I had hatred towards the Korean occupiers, I felt zero sympathy towards the resistance, who ran around guns a blazing and would act like in an action movie rather than trying to have a more serious tone. The game comes out March 15th 2011.