Saturday, September 24, 2011

Home is where the war is

Homefront is a video game that shows how people with power can cause fear into lives. In the game, North Korea and South Korea reunite creating a greater Korea. They then continue to spread their power and beliefs by invading other countries and implanting their dictatorship. It’s relevant because it shows how worldwide disputes and the want for power can lead to fighting and conflict between religions and beliefs. It makes you think about how we should all work together and be more accepting of each other more freely instead of wanting to implant or get rid of another religion or culture.

In Homefront, the game’s setting is in the future, starting from about 2013 when North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il dies and his son Kim Jong-un took control. He then sets out to reunite North and South Korea to make a Greater Korean Republic and uses the power he has to spread out to other countries and take control. In the game, you play as a US citizen fighting back for freedom from the GKR.

The game is focusing on the ideal of freedom and how some people think differently about it and enforce it differently. It shows that the GKR believes that it is the ultimate power in the world and that everybody should be ruled under them. The thinking is that we should be more accepting of how people act with each other and how they live and that we are equal and shouldn’t attack and take over each other.

2 comments:

Eric Du said...

I agree on you with that we should always be accepting on the way people live and act. I also agree that we are all equal. This game, from what I heard is a good example of that, even though it is just simply a video game.

Chayanin Noramuttha said...

I want to say that this game is kinda cool(I looked up some in YouTube), I think someday I'll play it. Ok, back to topic,well.., I think that it would be nice if Korea really reunited but not good if want to dominate the world like in the video game and yeah I think same as you that we shouldn't attack or take over people, we should accept how they think and help each other.