Homefront: The Revolution Has "New Style of Gameplay, New Backstory..."
-----------"There's a reason we don't call it Homefront 2."
Homefront: The Revolution's narrative designer CJ Kershner said that "Everything is new for Homefront: The Revolution. It's a new team, new publisher, new style of gameplay, new backstory..."
The original Homefront was published by THQ in 2011, but when the publisher went bankrupt, Crysis developer Crytek stepped in to buy the franchise for $544,000. However, Crytek later sold the game to Deep Silver, which put its new Dambuster Studios to work on The Revolution.
The Revoultion will however maintain the core concept of Homefront--that of an occupied American facing enemy Korean forces--but the sequel has expanded out that idea "by 360 degrees," Kershner said.
"Dambuster is making its own unique mark on the name of Homefront, so anything that you remember or know about the first game: forget it now," he said. "It's not a continuation of that story or that style of gameplay. There's a reason we don't call it Homefront 2."
As for why Dambuster is keeping the Homefront name, Kershner--who also worked on the first game--said, "There's power in that core premise of being a guerrilla fighter and fighting in your own neighborhoods against a technologically and numerically superior military force. The premise is strong and the execution on the first game leveraged the story and the idea, but not the actual mechanics of what that would involve."
Originally slated to launch in 2015, The Revolution was later delayed to 2016 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. "We are giving the team every opportunity to turn Homefront: The Revolution into a best-selling title, and have set a 2016 release date to provide them the time they need to achieve this."
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