Philadelphia will be the backdrop for a dystopic video game!
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
Welcome, to our wartorn metropolis, Dear Leader.
Is this a screenshot from the video game or photo of someone's "urban exploration" tumblr? You decide.
Have you ever looked at an abandoned, blight-ridden street in your neighborhood and thought, "Gee, this would be the perfect setting for a video game where a reunified Korea conducts a successful land invasion of the United States"?
If so, you probably work at Kaos Studios, developer of the popular "Homefront" series of first-person shooters. The New York City-based company is setting its latest game in an occupied Philadelphia that takes place four years after the U.S. is invaded by the "Korean People's Army." (Really?!) It's just like that Red Dawn remake. (Really.)
I'll go out on a limb and guess the game will likely feature inaccuracies common in out-of-town depictions of Philadelphia, like street-smart "natives" who inexplicably speak with Brooklyn accents and wacky non-places like "Central Station."
But hey, they got the subway cars right.
Lest you think this is just another example of New Yorkers subconsciously associating Philadelphia with all things decrepit, the original game was set in a dystopic San Francisco. But given that this is the sequal, where everything is now reallllly fucked up from a couple years of military occupation, it's probably safe to assume there were a few conference room sessions about which American city most resembles a wartorn metropolis.
Besides Detroit. Kaos Studios wants you to know that nobody's gonna invade Detroit.
