10 Times Video Games Accurately Predicted The Future
3. Homefront Foretells The Rise Of Kim Jong-Un
Many war-focused games go for alternate or splintering history to tell their tales so that they can use the real world but twist it in a way to tell their own stories. Homefront, a 2011 title from Kaos Studios, set itself in a ravaged America after a united Korean invasion.
The events really kick off in 2012 with the death of Kim Jong-Il who passes away suddenly. In his stead, his son Kim Jong-Un uses this moment to unify North and South Korea and, putting their differences aside, take aim and invade the United States of America.
Now, the idea of the two Koreas unifying seems pretty unlikely over a decade later… but the rest of that is near enough spot on. In December 2011, less than a year after the game released and just weeks before their prediction of 2012, Kim Jong-Il died of an unexpected heart attack.
More than that, picking the dictator’s youngest son to succeed him was something that nobody expected - except, apparently, the writers of Homefront.
It might also be worth noting that, in this timeline, the conditions in America get worse due to a financial crisis and an Asian bird flu epidemic in 2022 which shockingly isn’t too far off the mark either.