Crytek has announced Homefront: The Revolution

The original was very good, single player was a little short but good story line. The multiplayer was awesome good fun and quite well balanced and flowed really well. maps were a nice size not small but again not BF either. 2 game modes. Expansion was good but by that time the boat had shipped.

It was released around COD time though and the COD FANBOYS killed the game off as it played on a hardcore ruleset and at the time it was COD COD COD etc.

Overall a really fun shooter. 7/10 for a first time around is good.
 
The first game was ok but never lived up to what it could have been. It also felt just too short with a COD clone MP added on.

I'm not too sure what to make of this new game. I think I will sit on the fence and wait for more information.
 
I've just seen on twitter about Homefront saying there is no multiplayer just like the one in Homefront 1 instead we will get a co-op only game. Just Wow good luck Crytek did not expect that.
 
Robot Dog said:
I've just seen on twitter about Homefront saying there is no multiplayer just like the one in Homefront 1 instead we will get a co-op only game. Just Wow good luck Crytek did not expect that.
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I think it is a good and brave move. Look at Crysis - the multiplayer quickly dies of and with Homefront 1, even though no fault of their own it was a disappointment.

A strong Open World campaign with co-op multiplayer seems the safest step to take, although I'm disappointed their isn't a death match. Why should developers feel forced to "tack on" multiplayer when the reigns are held by COD.
 
Just started on Homefront a couple of days back. I found a steelbox copy in a draw that I can't remember buying. Receipt says £4.99 mind you, so if it's not that good it ain't a huge waste of money.
 
majnu said:
I think it is a good and brave move. Look at Crysis - the multiplayer quickly dies of and with Homefront 1, even though no fault of their own it was a disappointment.

A strong Open World campaign with co-op multiplayer seems the safest step to take, although I'm disappointed their isn't a death match. Why should developers feel forced to "tack on" multiplayer when the reigns are held by COD.
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If you ask me the only saving grace in Homefront was its multiplayer in fact homefront should just have been a multiplayer only game if you ask me. I just think crytek just are unable to do so and left it out if all those stories about cryengine online being a mess.

I think Cryengine has some netcode limitation and can not do 32 man battle i think. Mechwarrior being a example i heard is still in a mess. The developers have had to re write the netcode instead of using cryengines built in netcode because it was crap.
 
agnes said:
Looks good, I kind of enjoyed Homefront, for about 10 mins.
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You completed the campaign then? :p

I did actually enjoy the first one as well, although the SP was ridiculously short (think I completed it in one sitting...)

Looks like this could be good
 
Watching this makes me want to go and get Freedom Fighters installed again, now that is a game that needs a sequel or remaster.
 
Crytek’s Homefront: The Revolution promises to be something we’ve been waiting a long time for. Developed by Crytek UK exclusively for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, it’s an open world, first-person shooter that lets the new generation of consoles truly flex its muscles.

Set four years after the events of Kaos Studios’ lacklustre 2011 original, in which an invading Korean army took over America, The Revolution is set in beautifully realised yet completely ****ed Philadelphia. It’s a city on its knees.

The birthplace of American freedom, home to the Liberty Bell and witness to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia is now a police state, its citizens under constant watch by surveillance drones and armoured patrols. Even the slightest dissent is crushed.

Most of those living in the city have been bought to heel and forced to live in grubby ghettos, their hope of freedom long since crushed. Yet still a guerrilla force is determined to ignite a second American Revolution.

It’s against this backdrop that the game plays out. Your character isn’t a badass or a soldier, he’s just a normal bloke driven to action in desperate circumstances. He has to scavenge or steal resources and build improvised, homebrew weapons, while recruiting revolutionaries to the cause and establishing bases and safehouses.

The ruling forces are much better equipped and highly organised. Airships patrol the skies, futuristic tanks rumble down streets, giant screens blare out propaganda, drones zip between buildings and armed soldiers keep everyone in check.

It’s Homefront: The Revolution’s “living, breathing, open-world” that makes the game so promising. The city’s inhabitants act independently. You could be walking down the street and suddenly BOOM, a resistance force attacks a control point and all hell breaks loose.

This happens completely separately to your actions. You can take advantage of the distraction, lend a hand in the fight or ignore it completely, but whether you’re involved or not, these acts of civil disobedience will go on without you.

The easiest way to describe it is in terms of Far Cry 3. You know how a tiger could suddenly attack an outpost and mess **** up while you looked on and chuckled? It’s like that, but with people and grenades instead of big cats with sharp teeth.

Battles are not scripted and instead play out according to your actions and the reponse of the enemy AI. You’re encouraged to embrace guerrilla warfare tactics - ambushing, assassinating, sabotaging, infiltrating and carrying out hit and run attacks on the superior ruling forces. It seems pleasingly open to whatever approach you choose.

In one section shown to press, the player character cobbled together a remote control car, a camera and an explosive device, then drove the makeshift mobile bomb deep into an enemy base before detonating it and taking out the survivors with his rifle. Homefront: The Revolution could provide a brilliantly compelling sandbox.

t’s also absolutely stunning. Free from the compromises made by cross-generation releases, the city is insanely detailed, with some brilliant particle effects, cloth physics and gorgeous lighting effects. It’s early days and announcement demos are notoriously unreliable, but taken at face value Homefront: The Revolution is easily the best looking open world game we’ve ever seen.

Throw in four-player co-op, which is distinct from the main story but nevertheless takes place within the same world, and Homefront: The Revolution is suddenly one of our most anticipated games. Promising to combine a compelling narrative set-up with emergent gameplay, an open world, jaw-dropping visuals and Crytek’s knack for solid, satisfying shooting, it could be pretty damn special.

Already in development for almost three years, Homefront: The Revolution is out in 2015. You can see the announcement trailer through here.
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http://www.xboxachievements.com/new...-Guerrilla-Warfare-Comes-to-Philadelphia.html

Game sounds great and better than I imagined. Shame it's not out this year as 2014 has to be the worst year for gaming for me.
 
Guy said:
Watching this makes me want to go and get Freedom Fighters installed again, now that is a game that needs a sequel or remaster.
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That's it!

This game reminded me of an old game that I used to play back on the ps2 but I could not rember its name. I hope they don't screw it up.
 
Guy said:
Watching this makes me want to go and get Freedom Fighters installed again, now that is a game that needs a sequel or remaster.
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This immediately popped into my mind as well! Was a lot of fun, that game.

This looks like it has some potential, hopefully it won't be too heavy on the sci-fi though. And please Crytek don't bring in any alien nonsense.
 
majnu said:
Awesome, been waiting ages for this. Hopefully Crytek will do a better job than THQ and Kaos studios who made a shambles of the online servers. Had great potential and a game which disturbed 'Mericans because Koreans invaded their soil. :D
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Wasnt that frontlines fuel of war
 
I liked the original but so may bugs in single player killed that then multiplayer wasn't much better, if they hadn't of had all the bugs in multiplayer it might have been decent :(
 
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