Crytek Developed Homefront Sequel

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Originally Posted by Joystiq

Having shuttered Kaos Studios, the developer of Homefront, THQ has secured a new partnership to develop the next title in the FPS franchise. A sequel to Homefront will be developed in collaboration with Crytek, the company behind Far Cry, Crysis and the visually opulent CryEngine platform.

"We see Homefront as a really strong universe that has a lot of potential and that has been expertly created and marketed by THQ," said Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli. He's certainly right about the expert marketing. After plastering America with adverts, THQ overcame tepid critical response and shipped over 2.6 million copies of Homefront by the end of March 2011.

Yerli suggests that Crytek has been granted a reassuring amount of "creative freedom" over Homefront, and aims to bring its war-ravaged world to life "in a new and innovative way." It'll take some time, though -- the Homefront sequel is scheduled to launch on PC and consoles in THQ's fiscal 2014, meaning anywhere between April 2013 and March 2014.

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The timing of this one means that it won't have to be watered down for the PS3 and 360 anymore, so this should be amazing.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

The timing of this one means that it won't have to be watered down for the PS3 and 360 anymore, so this should be amazing.

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I wouldn't be so sure about that. We still have no idea when next gen will come, and I don't expect a speedy adoption rate when it finally does.

I'm not real happy that THQ closed Kaos, I think they're a studio that had a lot of potential and did multiplayer very well. But they were no CryTek, and CryEngine is a very appropriate tech for this game, so if you have to get someone else to take the series over, they're a good choice.

If this game is on the PS3 and 360 as late as 2014, I'll be playing on my damn smartphone, which will run circles around them by then and output HDMI.

Has crytek ever made a good multiplayer game? Ill take Homefront or even Kaos' Frontlines Fuel of War over any Crytek MP. Hell Kaos is(was) made up of a lot of Desert Combat guys - that mod is legendary.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

Has crytek ever made a good multiplayer game? Ill take Homefront or even Kaos' Frontlines Fuel of War over any Crytek MP. Hell Kaos is(was) made up of a lot of Desert Combat guys - that mod is legendary.

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It's not like Crysis Wars wasn't a good multiplayer game, but yeah, Kaos did multiplayer better. Hopefully they try to keep the spirit of what they did with the MP in Homefront/Frontlines alive.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

my damn smartphone, which will output HDMI.

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Mine already does.

Also Homefront was a decent idea that needed better execution and talent behind it, so this news interests me a lot.

Apparently this is being done by Crytek UK. You might remember them as Free Radical. I think good multiplayer is more or less a given.

Weren't they doing Timesplitters 4?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Mine already does.

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Yeah, I noticed that several of them do now, but I don't think a lot of people realize that unless they've shopped for a phone recently.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Weren't they doing Timesplitters 4?

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And does this mean that's not happening anymore? :cry: