Homefront: The Revolution was more of a linear game under THQ, it has been revealed.

Producer Dave Stanton explained how the project expanded in scope when Crytek and Deep Silver secured the property from the now defunct publisher to become a more free-roaming shooter.



"When we acquired the rights to the Homefront IP ourselves, we expanded on it and went back to the Crytek DNA, that Crytek sandbox heritage," he told Digital Spy.

"We were able to keep quite a lot [of the game following the acquisition]; it was a useful phase in a way.

"In the THQ days it was still very much about guerrilla warfare, as you'd expect, and it allowed us to experiment with things like the guerrilla toolkit.

"Back then it was a little bit more like Crysis 2, where it was a fairly linear story, and we'd make the individual levels bigger, but it was very much a sequential level series.



"When we acquired the IP ourselves, we were able to take a step back and say, 'Well, what do we really want to do to fulfil the potential of Homefront? How do we want to get back to our own Crytek DNA?'

"That's when we were able to go more free-roam and open with the game world."

Stanton added that although the choice to develop for Xbox 360 and PS3 was an option early on, focusing on next-gen and PC allows the team to push the "bleeding edge" Crytek Engine with more modern hardware.

"I think most of the team are quite pleased that we don't need to consider [Xbox 360 and PS3] so much now. The uptake on the Gen 4 consoles has been good," he said.



"It's really important for us that we're able to push things as far as we can... We're really pushing CryEngine, we're really building new elements into CryEngine to do with AI systems and the dynamic time of day, weather and the size of the areas and things like that.

"It would have been a really tough bet to try and get something like that working on last-gen."

Revealed earlier this week, Homefront: The Revolution is set four years after the original Homefront, focusing on a resistance movement in Philadelphia after the United States has become occupied by a foreign alliance.

It will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2015.

Watch a trailer for Homefront: The Revolution:

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