14 DAY TRIAL // Homefront, one of the most important first-person shooters of the month, has just received more details, this time related to the dedicated servers its multiplayer mode will benefit from.
Homefront is getting ready to be deployed next week, so Kaos Studios, its developer, and THQ, its publisher, are releasing the last few details.
The game will benefit from dedicated servers both on the PC and on the console versions, in order to ensure that every player will have a great online experience.
"We're providing dedicated servers for both console and PC versions of the game," said Drew Como, director of Infrastructure, THQ. "Dedicated servers allow us to support 32-players on large maps with infantry, vehicles and drones, and level the playing field compared to titles that rely on user-hosted games. We know how important this is to the FPS community, and we're looking forward to seeing their reaction on March 15th."
THQ is extremely confident about Homefront and said on more than one occasion that it is certain that the shooter will compete with other established franchises like Activision's Call of Duty or Electronic Arts' Battlefield.
THQ's core games boss, Danny Bilson, wants to make Homefront the most successful original IP launch for the company and is certain the game will delight players for quite a long time.
"Homefront is set to become one of THQ's most successful original IP launches. The team at Kaos have spent three years building an FPS that competes with the very best, offering a thrilling and original single player experience and hundreds of hours of multiplayer," he said.
Homefront's single-player campaign sees a unified Korea invade the USA in the near future and enslave its population, installing a totalitarian regime, led by one of the sons of current North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il.
The multiplayer modes in the game are pretty straightforward, but place an emphasis on vehicular combat, just like in the Battlefield series of shooters.
Homefront will be out for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 15, in North America, and March 18, in Europe.