GamesCom - Homefront
| Written by: Etali |
| Date: 2010-08-29 |
Homefront is a new first person shooter from THQ. The game asks the question of "What if the United States was occupied, and you were a resistance fighter?". The game is set in a not-too-distant future where Korea has been unified, and has become an agressive new super power. The game will be available on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, and has been in development for two years so far. The PC version will be specially built - not a port of the console version. We saw the game in action on a PC with a GeForce 470, and the graphics were incredibly good. It's a DirectX 11 game, and it looked great running at 100FPS. The single player story is expected to take around six to eight hours to complete, and follows your journey from Colorado to San Francisco as you work with other resistance fighters to try to take back your home. Homefront uses the Unreal Engine, and has some interesting combat options, including the Goliath, which is a vehicle that follows you and fights by your side. It's handy when it's just operating as the AI, and it's really impressive when you tell it what to shoot at using the Goliath Targetter. The world feels alive. There are billboards and shops that you will recognize, but they have been damaged and defaced with Korean propaganda. The NPCs that you meet have their own histories and personalities, and you get to know them as you play through the game - without having to put up with too much intrusive dialogue.  There will a multiplayer mode, and apparently there's a lot of effort being put into it, but the developers weren't willing to discuss that at the show. Homefront is probably the FPS I'm looking forward to the most out of all of the ones we saw at GamesCom - yes, even above a certain well known franchise. The even better news is that Homefront itself could be the first of many in a series. |
