Homefront 2 Emerges from the Ashes of its Predecessor
Sequels have become a major part of the industry this generation, largely due to the costly investment of developing a new IP. Games like Uncharted and LittleBigPlanet have warranted their sequels with strong global reception, but it isn’t always the successful games that get the sequels.
THQ has revealed that the controversial title Homefront will be coming back for a sequel. This comes as a bit of a surprise given Kaos Studios’ recent dissolve, which now places THQ Montreal at the reigns of finding a way to make what was originally an interesting premise actually deliver.
Despite plenty of negative reception, including from us, the original quickly sold over a million copies, and its online mode has maintained a small but loyal fan base. Much of the marred reception comes from the campaign mode being hyped as its best feature. Many quickly found out that the single-player was a mess, and that the online was where they’d get any and all of their enjoyment.
THQ Montreal is a new studio, but is loaded with talent, so there’s a possibility that this series will be salvaged. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that I would love to see Homefront done right, so here’s it’s second chance.
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3 Responses to “Homefront 2 Emerges from the Ashes of its Predecessor”
Homefront had some good moments in the campaign, I played it on Guerilla my time thru and yes there is a couple moments in the game where I wanted to break my controller but people aren’t understanding you play as thee militia not as a spec ops member, yeah you go into a tunnel during the day walk like 100 feet and come out after nightfall lol but who cares its just how they show the passage of time, I would expect part 2 to start from where the first one ended The Push From the West Coast to retake the US no more militia but you as a member of the US Army
the multiplayer is very addicting but the way KAOS has treated the PS3 community just sucks – big time. multiplatform games should be equal in quality and support. exclusive timed DLC is just a stupid concept and it should never be supported – treating one console better than the other is just bad business. devs/publishers should never alienate 2/3 of your consumers. i guess its not only we gamers suffer the consequences.
This was my first game that I actually played on-line. I loved the story line. And though the waiting in lobbies for other players was frustrating, when I would get into a match I would forget about the wait because I enjoyed playing so much (very, very addictive) I did not however, like the fact that if you did not buy the DLC you would get kicked out of the session. This I think is an other way to really turn people off from a decent game. That being said I cannot wait for HF2.