WI: the other Homefront game

Yes, what if Homefront's developers decided to use People's Republic of China as villains, not Greater Korean Republic?

How would the players and the Chinese react?
And what story would it be like?
Thanks in advance!
 
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Yes, what if Homefront's developers decided to use People's Republic of China as villains, not Greater Korean Republic?
What story would it be like?
Thanks in advance!

The story would be that China somehow loses it's economic dependency on the west and goes on an imperialist expansion towards south-east Asia first. Then they risk it and declare war against American allies in Asia (SK, Japan, Taiwan).
As I think, there was some big economic depression before the game began so, already suffering from economic hardship, and disgraced at the eyes of the world because of leaving it's allies, America is internally and externally fu**ed.
Then China invades. What I don't understand from the game is that both China and the US has nuclear weapons, so why didn't the US use them? + how did China ( or North Korea from the game) bypass the American fleet? I don't think it's possible to overcome the US fleet in numbers and firepower in just a decade... And where are the American NATO allies in Europe, Canada? And other allies from around the world? I suppose they left America alone after seeing how the Americans betrayed their Asian allies, but then again, Europe is Americas best friend...why aren't they helping?
 
Well, later in the game, the European Union had begun to (consider) of helping America.

I guess the Saudi-Iran War which crippled global oil supply made everyone just thinking for their own (like in Endwar)

But I think THQ just made North Korean as villains to help their sale. China is a big market and it will be bad if it's banned by Chinese.
 
In Homefront, America's economic situation was so bad that America was suffering an existential crisis.

I know America was trying to retreat back into isolationism . . . Apparently just about every country was telling every other country to fuck off while they tried to deal with their own problems.

And when I say existential crisis . . . I mean it.

The United States was the US in name only.

Thing apparently went so bad that the Federal Government gave the States a rather ridiculous amount of autonomy . . . So much so that even though they all still claimed to be a part of the US, each State was effectively it's own country.

If you poke around the official timeline you see things like one of the states (can't remember which one) threatening to declare war on Texas because Texans border guards opened fire on refugees.

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So yeah . . . In Homefront things were so bad individual US States were at risk of declaring war on each other.
 
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