The screenshots below offer our first look into Kaos Studios’ second game under THQ, Homefront, and as someone who liked their previous game, Frontlines: Fuel of War, I have to say it’s hard to really say anything much about them at this point. Homefront looks and feels a lot like Frontlines, and is even reusing some assets (a whole vehicle even), but has a distinct lack of those little man-controlled drones we love so much here at VGH (ok, that may just be me). We do see a six-wheeler called Goliath that can bash through buildings, which is of course always handy, and a big drone that brings destruction from above. But while these are cool and all, they’re no substitute for flying your little choppa up a sniper’s butt and detonating it.

In the 1980s, director John Milius stirred controversy with his film Red Dawn, which portrayed a fictional account of the US being invaded by the Soviet Union. Now, the Apocalypse Now screenwriter is returning to the occupied-US fiction genre with Homefront, the first-person shooter he is currently writing the story for.

Apparently the aforementioned story was so sprawling, it couldn't be contained by just a game. Today, THQ and Random House announced that Milius will pen a companion novel for Homefront to be published alongside the game. The novel will expand upon the story of the game, which sees the US taken over by North Korea, and follows American forces aiming to cast off the shackles of communist hegemony.