14 DAY TRIAL // The executives working on Homefront 2 at developer Crytek believe that the game has a good chance of impressing gamers when it launches despite the problems that the first game in the series had and its low review scores.
Speaking to GamesIndustry International, Avni Yerli, who is one of the co-founders of Crytek, has stated, “It has a huge mind share, everybody knows the IP. The first game has indeed a low Metacritic, but due to really great positioning and great marketing it has reached a good mind share.
“And I think with Crytek quality attached to it and similar marketing attached to it, it can make a big splash at the time it comes out.”
Nick Button-Brown, who is the general manager in charge of video game development at the company, added, “When you look at the world they created in the first game and the world that they were talking about for the second game, the setting they were talking about… obviously we can’t talk about it yet, but it’s really cool."
The original Homefront was developed by Kaos Studios and was launched during March 2011.
The game received a big marketing push from publisher THQ before launch and executives painted it as the next shooter to compete with Call of Duty from Activision Blizzard and Battlefield from Electronic Arts.
Despite big expectations Homefront failed to impress when it launched and currently has a Metacritic score on all platforms just above 70.
Homefront 2 will use the same game world, although it is not clear exactly where in the occupied United States it will take place.
Crytek will use its latest engine to make the game and at the moment no launch platforms have been announced.
Some analysts expect to see the game arrive on the next generation of home consoles from Sony and Microsoft and on the Nintendo Wii U.