Crytek to Make Next Homefront Title!

[GullyFoyle]

THQ AND CRYTEK COLLABORATE ON NEXT HOMEFRONT TITLE

Legendary FPS developer set to take THQ’s successful original IP to new heights...
THQ today announced that the next title in its Homefront® franchise will be developed by multi-award winning FPS veterans Crytek.

"Selecting Crytek to take Homefront forward underscores our strategy of working with the industry's best talent," said Danny Bilson, EVP Core Games, THQ.

"Homefront's unique setting and storyline captivated gamers the world over. With Crytek’s industry leading technology and legendary experience in the FPS genre, we’re supremely confident that the next Homefront will deliver that AAA-quality experience that players demand."

"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 Cevat Yerli, Founder, CEO and President of Crytek. "We believe that bringing our level of quality, creativity and production values to the next Homefront title, creates an opportunity for both THQ and Crytek to deliver a truly blockbuster game. It's really important to us that THQ has the faith in giving us a lot of creative freedom over one of its most important properties to allow us to bring the Homefront world to life in a new and innovative way."

The first Homefront title was released in March 2011, and proved to be a commercial success for THQ. The yet to be named sequel is scheduled for release in THQ's fiscal year 2014 on console and PC platforms.

About Homefront
The year is 2027. The world as we know it is unraveling after fifteen years of economic meltdown and widespread global conflict over dwindling natural resources.

A once proud America has fallen, her infrastructure shattered and military in disarray. Crippled by a devastating EMP strike the USA is powerless to resist the ever expanding occupation of a savage, nuclear armed Greater Korean Republic.

Abandoned by her former allies, the United States is a bleak landscape of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. This is a police state where high school stadiums have become detention centers, and shopping malls shelter armored attack vehicles. A once-free people are now prisoners... Or collaborators... Or revolutionaries.

Meanwhile, the splintered nations of Europe struggle to maintain peace at home, as the global economy continues its downward spiral, and civil order disintegrates. The world is teetering on the brink of ruin.

About Crytek GmbH
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world’s leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment. It is based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and has additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and Nottingham (UK). Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high-quality video games for next-generation consoles and PC, powered by their proprietary cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.

Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has created the multi-award winning PC titles Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards) and Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010).

Crytek, Crysis and CryENGINE are registered trademarks or trademarks of Crytek GmbH in the USA, Germany and/or other countries.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Why does THQ need Crytek to run this IP into the ground? The original developer already did.

 

[KaOTiK]

Legendary FPS developer

What?

 

[lsv]

PR is PR.

On the other hand, Homefront was totally broken. The idea is great but the gameplay was broken. Crysis has pretty good gameplay and story. So this could work...

 

[wuliheron]

Crytec had to hire an outside author to do the plot and dialogue for Crysis 2. They're a bunch of geeks, not great authors. With only a handful of games a year raking in the big bucks these days the pressure is on to make sure Crytec's awesome geeky talent with graphics and gameplay dynamics isn't wasted on some stupid plot and worthless dialogue. They've got the whole nanosuit thing down pat, but its obviously time to grow the business a bit and spread their wings.

 

[Texashiker]

I thought homefront was a flop?

Why would anyone want to make another game with an already tarnished name?

 

[(sic)Klown12]

I thought homefront was a flop?

Why would anyone want to make another game with an already tarnished name?

THQ spent a butt-load of money getting the Homefront I.P. going, and they're not going to let it die that easily. The first game, with all it's faults, sold surprisingly well and the premise is fairly solid if they can get the execution right.

 

[Beev]

What a waste of Crytek...

 

[Zargon]

What a waste of Crytek...

because this IP is so much worse than aliens invading the US.....?

 

[Beev]

because this IP is so much worse than aliens invading the US.....?

I don't care if THQ invested in the IP. The first game was a waste of discs. Crytek should not have agreed to do it. Their IPs are more fun to play, and their level of polish makes it even better. No level of polish will make me like anything Homefront. There are too many terrible war IPs as it is.