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* [[Cool Car]]: Goliath, a self-navigating semi-autonomous combat vehicle with a Gatling gun and rockets launchers. {{spoiler|Only while it's on your side though. The climactic battle involves you having to take down an enemy Goliath and experiencing exactly what it feels like to be on the other end of the gun.}}
* [[Crapsack World]]: Let's see now. Korea being unified under the North Korean rule under Kim Jong-un's leadership (''[[Take That|and the Nobel committee gave him the Peace Prize for that]]''), ''more'' Middle Eastern wars cause the belligerents to torch the oil fields indiscriminately, making oil resources scarce, the United States economic and governmental structure collapses and enters a permanent economic depression, the United Nations gets disbanded, an epidemic breaks out in the United States, The Great Korean Republic [[Ironic Echo|invades their neighboring countries from Japan to Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines]] ''[[History Repeats|while the entire world doesn't give a damn about this]]''. And when North Korea invades United States with an EMP blast and their military, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse from there]].
* [[Creator Killer]]: Although Homefront's [https://web.archive.org/web/20110830122043/http://www.industrygamers.com/news/homefront-is-profitable-thq-expects-lifetime-sales-of-3-million/ sold over two million copies], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828133934/http://www.industrygamers.com/news/homefront-developer-gets-axed-by-thq/ THQ has shut down Kaos Studios] anyway. It appears that whatever plans Kaos had to continue Homefront's story will be in the hands of the Montreal studio.
** Though the reason for this was given as the fact that Kaos is run in New York, and it's just too expensive to run a studio there. It was a sad news piece indeed.
*** Although didn't kill it, it was one of the factors in THQ's money problems.