Interview: Kaos Studios' Tae Kim on Homefront
Tae Kim is a former Field Operations Officer with the CIA and highly valued consultant the New York based Kaos Studios keeps on its payroll these days.
The American with korean roots helps the US developer to design the main and back story for Homefront, the next big action shooter THQ is planning to publish most probably at then end of 2010. Gamereactor flew over to New York to talk with Tae Kim about his work with Homefront.
Tae Kim, I was wondering when I heard you talking about the whole concept behind the Homefront story whether it is a good idea to promote these ideas you promote to the terrorists that could turn them into reality?
A lot of the elements from the game are not something we bring uniquely to it. We have pulled it mostly from public sources. But it is obviously always kind of dangerous to make a package like this available for someone. But it clearly wasn't our intention when we came up with the storyline.
You portrayed the Koreans as being brutal and using a lot of propaganda against the US, but you are at the risk of doing the exact same thing vice versa. Did you think about that controversy?
Yeah, it almost feels like as we are doing propaganda against the North Koreans. This is obviously not our intention. What we were trying to portray is what's known about them today and how they probably will be operating in 20 years time from now. We took it out of the open world and applied it into the game and did not try to generate a controversy from our end.
I am not an American but if I would be and see the game I would be scared by the scenario. Don't you think it's a little to much for people to play a situation like that?
I think there is that aspect to it, but there has been others game where you deal with the aftereffects of a nucleaur holocaust, where the whole country is destroyed and you are fighting off mutants or against other soldiers...
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- System:PC, PS3, Xbox 360
- Genre:Action
- Developer:Kaos Studios, Digital Extremes
- Publisher:THQ
- Offline players:1
- Online players:1-32
- Age limit:From 18 years
- Release date:18 March 2011
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