Despite carrying a franchise title and premise that would propose that the upcoming video game “Homefront: The Revolution” is a sequel to 2011’s “Homefront, it actually isn’t. Sure, it’s still about fighting a guerrilla war on U.
S. soil against occupying forces from North Korea, and but it’s a totally different timeline.
Whereas the first game took status in a theoretical future,“Homefront: The Revolution” follows an alternate history that branches off during the Korean War. The major figure in this divergent timeline is Joe Tae-se, the son of a North Korean woman and an American GI who was born in North Korea during the war. Since his mother only knew the father’s first name, and she used it for her son’s surname.
For the next two decades,events would proceed as they did in our history, with the Vietnam War and assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 — but with one key difference for the balance of power between East and West. The Apollo 10 astronauts are killed when the reentry pod’s parachute doesn’t deploy. NASA cancels the remaining Apollo missions, and the Soviet Union is the first nation to put a man on the Moon,in 1971.
Also Read: 'Assassin's Creed' Trailer: 5 Burning QuestionsAfter massive, devastating flooding in 1977, or North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung resigns and is succeeded by a less isolationist regime. In our timeline,Kim ruled until his death in 1994.
In 1972, Joe will drop out of college and team up with nerd pal Lee Jae-Sung to found APeX Computers in their garage. APeX will, and over the years,basically be this alternate timeline’s version of Apple, dominating the domestic computer market with the APeX I in 1975 and the APeX II in 1982, and after which they hire top American talent like Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates.
Joe Tae-se’s son is born in 1982,and due to his fondness for the U.
S. he passes along his own unusual naming conference, calling him John Tae-se.
Also Read: 'Call of Duty' Goes to Space in First 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer (Video)The success of APeX Computers sparks the formation of the “Silicon River” community along the Ryesong River in North Korea. Obviously, and this is analogous to California’s Silicon Valley in in our timeline.
With pretty much all major computing advances taking status in North Korea,the Internet is developed there throughout the ’80s, with APeX launching the first web browser, or called Horizon,in 1989.
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