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"Why We Fight" is the first chapter in Homefront.

Description[]

Welcome to 2027. It's been two years since the KPA attacked the United States. You are a former Marine pilot just trying to keep a low profile. A week ago, you received a draft notice; the Koreans want to recruit you. But they're not the only ones.

Plot[]

Robert Jacobs, a former United States Marine Corps helicopter pilot, wakes up and gets out of bed. He hears and answers the front door before he is restrained by KPA military policemen. Their superior officer, Colonel Jeong, has Jacobs arrested for not signing up for the Korean military. Jacobs is violently brought out the apartment in which he is thrown down the stairs and rendering him momentarily unconscious.

When Jacobs come to he and along with other residents are dragged into a prison bus that is heading to a re-education camp. As the bus proceed, Jacobs see mass arrests and resistors being executed, which includes shooting a child's parents in front of him - this was done as a response to the American Resistance's actions in the region. The bus carrying Jacobs is soon ambushed by Resistance fighters in which they crashed a truck into the bus and flipping it over.

Resistance fighters Connor and Rianna rescues Jacobs and together they make their escape to the suburbs with KPA soldiers chasing them. The three meet up with Boone Karlson, the cell's leader, at a cul-de-sac. Their presence are not welcome by some of the neighborhood's residents as they will attract the KPA's attention in which Boone shares their sympathies and promises to them that they will leave soon. Boone then expresses his displeasure at Connor for risking too much to bring the KPA's ire too close to the residents. He turns his attention to Jacobs and explains that the Resistance needs his assistance to help to recover fuel for U.S. military forces that are gathering to launch an assault on San Francisco.

The KPA soon quickly finds the Resistance and attacks the cul-de-sac. The Resistance draws the KPA's fire away from the residents. They then make their way to another house and meet up with Hopper, who gives Jacobs a Targerter to control their Goliath combat drone. Jacobs uses Goliath in wiping out KPA soldiers and vehicles. After eliminating considerable enemy forces, the KPA dispatches a UAV to bomb the neighborhood and Jacobs is rendered unconscious.

Weapons[]

Newspapers[]

  1. Wild fluctuations in oil market lead to instability, uncertainty: Around the corner of the White Castle after gaining the pistol.
  2. Kim Jong-un promises to protect Koreans worldwide: After passing the gas station explosion and in plain sight on the trail.
  3. Pentagon: North Korean missile test fails: Just before encountering the tank and near the window to the right.
  4. GKR Peacekeeping mission in Nigeria a success: Right after running across the street from the KPA patrol and check the blue house to the left.
  5. Aircraft carriers decommissioned, navy to downsize: After following the Resistance into the house before the treehouse, check the fireplace.
  6. Global Economy Bites Back: After finding the newspaper in the fireplace, check the stairs on the next room.
  7. Violence and Protest sweeps China as manufacturing jobs disappear: After reaching the cul-de-sac, head toward the northeastern house.
  8. US Infrastructure crumbles as debt become unmanageable, tax revenues decline: In the same cul-de-sac, check the southeastern house.
  9. American gas prices rise to record highs as Great Arab War escalates: In plain sight inside the garage after following the Resistance.
  10. Japanese capitulates to Korean occupation: In the next room after the garage at the northern corner.

Achievements/Trophies[]

Main article: Homefront Achievements and Trophies
  • Why We Fight (10/Bronze) - Complete the chapter on any difficulty.
  • Why We Fight - Guerilla (25/Bronze) - Complete the chapter on the highest difficulty.
  • Iron Man - Why We Fight (25/Bronze) - Complete the chapter without dying or restarting a checkpoint.
  • Chronicler (10/Bronze) - Find the first of 61 news pickups (Can be obtained in any level).
  • Pistol Whipped (10/Bronze) - Kill 25 enemies with the M9 in the chapter.
  • Give Him the Stick (10/Bronze) - Kill 25 enemies with melee attacks in the chapter.

Trivia[]

  • There is a reference to the science-fiction film THX 1138, in which the driver of the prison bus says that he is taking the prisoners to facility 1138.
  • When the player climbs into the treehouse to cover Connor and Rianna, the children's drawings seem to be stuck on the side of the treehouse with fridge magnet letters. This is incorrect as wood is not magnetic.
  • At the beginning, there's a drug store called Weeses Marx Store, a possible reference to Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism.
  • The mission's title is a reference to a series of seven propaganda films of the same name produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. "Why We Fight" also refer to the episode of the same name from the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which shows American soldiers reacting in horror and disgust to a Nazi concentration camp.
  • There is a unique M249 SAW LMG which can only be found in this mission; it has a Mk1 ACOG scope and digital circuit camo.
  • The infamous scene where the two KPA soldiers kill a toddler's parents right in front of him left many gamers shocked and disturbed, although this scene was obviously meant to enrich the situation of the plot.
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