The Homefront franchise will return in 2015 as an open-world FPS for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. Crytek, which purchased the Homefront series during THQ's bankruptcy auction in January 2013 for $544,000, officially announced Homefront: The Revolution today.
Homefront: The Revolution is set in a United States (Philadelphia, specifically) that has for four years been occupied by North Korean military forces. You'll lead a resistance moveme nt utilizing guerrilla warfare tactics to battle the "superior" North Korean army.
The game boasts a single-player campaign, as well as a four-player online co-op mode. The original Homefront had a traditional multiplayer mode, but it doesn't appear that Crytek is going to carry this mode forward for Homefront: The Revolution.
Crytek boasts that Homefront: The Revolution features "true open-world gameplay," brought to life with a "dynamic" weather system and a full day/night cycle. Like you'd expect, it runs on Crytek's own CryEngine. What you do and how you play will also affect the game world in a meaningful way, Crytek says.
"Everything you do, from throwing a brick at a KPA camera to assassinating a high-ranking KPA official, impacts the revolutionary state of the world," d esigner Fasahat Salim told GameSpot. "How you go about doing these things will also have an impact on the way people respond to you and your idea of a revolution, but either way the KPA will come down hard and try to oppress you as much as they can. Everything that happens in this world is part of a lot of powerful stuff we have going on under the hood."
For more on Ho mefront: The Revolution, be sure to read GameSpot's just-published preview of the game.
Despite a middling critical reception, 2011's original Homefront sold over 1 million copies and shipped more than 2.4 million units. Then-publisher THQ said at the time that it was "very pleased" with sales on this level. However, its developer--Kaos Studios--would later close its doors entirely.
| Eddie Makuch is a news editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on Twitter @EddieMakuch |
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