The dust is settling from yesterday's major acquisitions of THQs bankruptcy. Most of the major IPs have been grabbed and today Crytek, purchaser of the Homefront license has released a statement regarding the future of the homefront series.
MP1st talks to Crytek about Hunt: Showdown's success, future title updates, inspiration behind weapons and more.
Crytek gives an update on their new Crysis game, confirming that it's still in development, with more to share down the road.
That's awesome. So how long till the studio closes and everyone gets fired?
Immersed Gamer writes: "Frans Bouma just received a Cease and Desist letter from Crytek, developers of Crysis. Did he pirate their game? Or maybe he infringed on their copyright? What horrible thing did Bouma do to deserve this? Well, he modded in a photo mode so that people could take beautiful pictures and share them on social media."
"from his Patreon page" Uhhhh yeah.......Oh gee and I wonder why that was problem? You know where this goes there Filip or perhaps you are just not quite yet.
Rarely do you see something with so much potential (Crytek) shoot themselves in the foot so many times.
Instead of sending a C&D Crytek should thank him, for this, because this will lead to more people buying and playing the game.
Personally I think its great they picked it up--just hope they do story justice. This generation we have seen several attempts at Battlefield style gameplay and think Crytek could very well make Homefront 2 the forerunner of competition.
Crytek does know how to do shooters as every Crysis has solid gunplay no matter if you liked the design choices or not. They've teased vehicles here and there (tank level in original Crysis was probably best) and they definitely know how to do large levels (again, original Crysis). If they can put it all together though I can see myself having a blast.
Plus they've already been working on this for a while. Best thing though, it should be a next gen title so will look so nice (as was planned for '14 last I heard) and probably allow for some intense, higher player count fights (assuming around 64+ as next gen should allow consoles for PC player count at very least--going by BF3 standards).
Crysis 3 looks much better than 2 (which I still enjoyed) and can't wait to see what they're doing with Homefront 2. Cryengine really is insane and just think what another year will make it capable of (for consoles especially).
Right now the Battlefield series doesn't have any real competition, on consoles. Maybe Crytek can make something good with Homefront 2.
Homefront had HUGE potential. Flesh it out to 15 or 20 hours and you can tell an AMAZING story and also compete with the big boys. Hope they do a great job like I know they can!
Homefront is probably in my top 3 worst games I've played this entire generation. The 3 hour campaign felt like it took 30 hours to finish. Hopefully the sequel isn't as terrible.
Didn't play the first. But if Crytek is making the sequel there are two things you can count on. Insane graphics and an engaging story. Might put Homefront in my gamefly queue.