Check out the opening cinematic for Homefront: The Revolution, which features a re-imagined alternate history that shows how North Korea was able to grow into a global superpower. The setting is the same, the North Koreans still hold dominion over the United States in the mid-2020s, but the story of how the world got to that point has been completely rewritten.
In the wake of the Korean War, the familiar uneasy stalemate held true, but instead of North Korea cutting itself off from the world, they struck it big in the 1970s, with the “Silicon River” tech start ups. It was here that the internet was created, that the first personal computers came from, and the very Apple-like Apex Computers sprung up to define the next 50 years of technology.
It was the very un-Apple shift into military hardware that ultimately led to America’s downfall, as they started to rely on Apex technology, while waging wars in the Middle East. Eventually, they were so far in the hole that they needed a bailout, but North Korea wasn’t willing, and instead marched into North America under the pretence of providing humanitarian aid.
You can discover more of the game’s new timeline at a dedicated history site, but the game itself is out in the startlingly near future. There’s just a handful of weeks left before its release on May 17th in the US and May 20th in other countries for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC.
Source: press release