Jacobs sees that the North Korean troops have seized control of the town, taking potentially valuable residents into custody and executing resistors. Marine Corps combat helicopter pilot, is awakened in his apartment in Montrose, Colorado and ordered to a re-education camp in Alaska. In 2027, two years after the beginning of the Korean-American War and the beginning of the occupation, Robert Jacobs, a former U.S.
However, the Americans were able to counterattack, leaving the Eastern States free and effectively dividing the nation at the irradiated Mississippi River, with the Western States under GKR occupation, known as the "New Korean Federation of Occupied America", a puppet state of the GKR. military severely crippled and scattered, launches a final offensive to take control of the remaining states. North Korean paratroopers are deployed over the Midwestern United States, and with the U.S. They seize control of Hawaii and much of the U.S. In the ensuing chaos, the Korean People's Army (KPA) launches a massive amphibious invasion, starting the Korean-American War. Finally, in 2025, the Greater Korean Republic, now a major superpower, launched a supposed advanced GPS satellite that would be a signal of peace, but is actually a secret orbital weapon that detonated a high-altitude nuclear device over the U.S., creating an EMP blast that wipes out much of the nation's electrical infrastructure. By 2024, North Korea's annexation has continued throughout Southeast Asia, including its emerging economic powers, giving the GKR an empire reminiscent of Imperial Japan's Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 2022, conditions in the United States worsen with the collapse of the financial system and an Asian bird flu epidemic that claims six million lives forcing the Mexican government to close their borders to the United States. A year later, Japan, significantly weakened due to the diminishing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, was easily conquered by the GKR and annexed shortly thereafter, becoming the first GKR puppet state. military recalled much of its Pacific fleet. This precipitates extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest in the United States. By the year 2015, a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia breaks out, both becoming nuclear-armed states, devastated the global oil supply, causing gas prices to skyrocket to $19.99 per gallon, leaving many countries in debt and causing mass hysteria. In 2013 however, one year after the death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, his son and successor, Kim Jong-un, successfully led a peaceful reunification with South Korea leading to the birth of the Greater Korean Republic (GKR), a technological and economic global power that comprises the military strength of the North and the economic power of the South. The game's backstory dates back to the 2010s, where there are high tensions between North Korea and the global powers due to the country's military aggression, including its successful nuclear weapons test and the sinking of a South Korean ship. Homefront is set in a dystopic United States, in the year 2027. Multiplayer is still playable (as of 2017) on PC. The online multiplayer function of the game is now defunct due to the sale and closure of THQ in late 2013. Although the online pass is not required to play multiplayer, those who play without an online pass will be unable to progress further than level 5 of the total 75 levels.
Each copy of Homefront contains an online pass, granting users access to the full multiplayer experience. The multiplayer gameplay takes place in the period before the United States Armed Forces were completely scattered. Players can earn points by completing objectives and increasing their amount of kills, and can choose to spend their points between many small purchases such as weapons, missiles, and drones, or larger, higher cost items like helicopters and tanks. The defining innovation of Homefront 's multiplayer is its battle points system, which is an in-game currency that allows a player to purchase weapons, gear, and vehicles. The multiplayer component of Homefront is focused on large-scale, vehicle-based combat reminiscent of Kaos Studios' first title, Frontlines: Fuel of War. It takes 4 to 10 hours to finish the game, all depending on the player's experience. The single-player campaign features many elements found in many other first-person shooter video games, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor.