A sequel to
Homefront will be developed in collaboration with Crytek, the company behind
Far Cry,
Crysis and the visually opulent CryEngine platform.
"We see Homefront as a really strong universe that has a lot of potential and that has been expertly created and marketed by THQ," said Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli. He's certainly right about the expert marketing. After plastering America with adverts, THQ overcame tepid critical response and shipped over
2.6 million copies of
Homefront by the end of March 2011.
Yerli suggests that Crytek has been granted a reassuring amount of "creative freedom" over
Homefront, and aims to bring its war-ravaged world to life "in a new and innovative way." It'll take some time, though -- the
Homefront sequel is scheduled to launch on PC and consoles in THQ's fiscal 2014, meaning anywhere between April 2013 and March 2014.
Update: Joystiq has confirmed that the
Homefront sequel will be built by
Crytek's Nottingham, UK studio on the "latest" CryEngine technology.