THQ has plans for Homefront 2

By Oli Welsh Published 3 December, 2009

Future FPS will be continued in DLC, sequel.

THQ's near-future FPS Homefront doesn't even have a release date yet, but the publisher's already planning a sequel.

"It's the beginning of a story. We're going to tell this like a serial, with cliff-hangers. And then we intend to continue the story in [downloadable content], until we go to Homefront 2," THQ's core gaming group head Danny Bilson told an investor conference, according to GameSpot.

Homefront is a PS3, PC and 360 shooter casting the player, 20 years in the future, as a resistance fighter struggling against a North Korean occupation of the USA. It's made by Kaos, developer of Frontlines: Fuel of War ("an incomplete experiment under pressure to ship," said Bilson - pressure from him, presumably). We previewed Homefront at the time of the game's E3 unveiling.

Since then, of course, the war on American soil has been portrayed by Modern Warfare 2, and Homefront will also be going up against EA's contemporary Medal of Honor.

"This is one of our big bets, I'll be honest," Bilson said. "People say, 'Why are you going into this Call of Duty space?' And it's because I know we can compete. I know we can compete."

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  • matrim83 #1 2 years ago

    Thats just great. So the people who buy and play this game will be left hanging with no closure. Unless you buy the DLC (I guess thats one way to sell DLC). And after that your best hope is to wait for a couple of years for a sequel. Unless the game sells like shit and there is no sequel.

    Why would anyone think of boasting this to their target audience? Are they retarded?

  • Grom #2 2 years ago

    Goddamn it, I read that as Homeworld :(

  • metalangel #3 2 years ago

    There wasn't much resolution at the end of Frontlines either.

  • dirk_aircool #4 2 years ago

    Quote :It's made by Kaos, developer of Frontlines: Fuel of War ("an incomplete experiment under pressure to ship," said Bilson - pressure from him, presumably).
    So having said that Frontlines was incomplete ,that didn't stop this company from selling 'Frontlines' at full price without mentioning that fact in its advertising. isn't that illegal ??. I wont be buying this one .
    PS I thought it said HOMEWORLD Too.

  • VibratingDonkey #5 2 years ago

    Frontlines wasn't full price for long mind you. I bought it for €2.49 a while ago on Steam. Singleplayer was so not the focus of this game at all, so if they plan on releasing singleplayer DLC they're gonna have to step that up considerably. I've only played the first mission but the flaws become readily apparent within the first ten minutes.

  • Xerx3s #6 2 years ago

    The MP in frontlines was awesome but broken by several design choices. Hopefully they have fixed those this time around.

  • Eraysor #7 2 years ago

    Cliffhangers are terrible; Crysis and Crysis Warhead have some of the worst endings in gaming because they stop right before what may or may not be the best bit.