THQ confirms Homefront 2
THQ has confirmed that it will be making a sequel to Homefront, but has closed Kaos Studios.
Chatting to Eurogamer at E3 2011, THQ's Danny Bilson described Homefront as a 'learning experience' and promised that the sequel will move forward.
'We also learned a lot about the service side of an online game needing dedicated servers,' said Bilson. '[We] learned a tremendous amount, which is all rolled out now in the demo. I hear it's going beautifully, with great connectivity. Everything's smooth.'
'The issues we had on Homefront we'll never have again. And yet, I absolutely love that brand and want to continue to make it great.'
However, THQ has also confirmed hat it has closed Homefront's original developer, Kaos Studios, and folded the remnants into THQ Montreal.
'The Montreal studio will take over product development and overall creative management for the Homefront franchise,' said the official statement. 'The Montreal studio actively collaborated with Kaos on Homefront.'
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On topic though, everyone I've talked to about Homefront said it was 'meh'. Can't see number 2 selling too well.
But once bitten by the 'learning experience' No one will buy the pc sequel.
should sell well on the consoles though, they will buy any thing.
The game was such a dissapointment, especially the 3 hour campaign length and killing it right when the action got going. I didnt touch the multiplayer, mostly cause I prefer games designed strictly for multiplayer if they're going to go that way (l4d/TF2 etc).
Can they not learn from the mistake Capcom made - making a sequel to Lost Planet?