Koch Media together with its publishing label Deep Silver announced today that it has acquired the Homefront brand and all coherent assets from Crytek. This includes Homefront: The Revolution which has been announced on 2nd June 2014.
More importantly, the development of this brand new Homefront game will be continued in newly founded, Nottingham-based Deep Silver Dambuster Studios.
Dr. Klemens Kundratitz said:
“We are thrilled to see another great IP joining the Deep Silver universe. We strongly believe in the potential of Homefront: The Revolution and trust in the new team to continue the path we have been walking in the last years.”
In short, Crytek is falling apart. Or at least we can kiss goodbye to the Crytek we knew. The German studio revealed earlier this month that it has evolved from a developer to an Online-Publisher, and this move further strengthens that statement.
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its not going to be a AAA title anymore, im expecting its production quality to radically drop down.
Metro Last Light & Saints Row IV were AAA so I don’t underestimate Deep Silver’s production quality for it’s upcoming library of games:
– Metro Redux
– Risen 3
– Sacred 3
– Dead Island 2
– Homefront 2
Agree.I love deep silver and i trust her!
To be fair. Metro LL and Saints ROw 4 were mostly paid by THQ, they were almost finished when THQ went bankrupt. True Deep Silver productions are games like Risen 1-3 and Dead Island.
yeah but metro redux and the next saints will be all deep silver
X Rebirth, Risen 2 🙁
Deep Silver is publisher not developer.
I DON’T THINK IT WOULD HAVE EXTREME GRAPHICS EITHER WAY..JUST ANOTHER CONSOLE PORT..
Koch Media/Deep Silver undoubtedly also bought a license to CryEngine with the incomplete Homefront 2 Game & files, coupled with the fact that they also bought the entire Crytek UK Studio (renamed now) so personally I’m not expecting much of a quality dip.
Likely a slight delay until the Team gets through this transitional phase (made a lot easier by the fact that the Team just moved from one Studio to the other, rather than undergoing major restructuring), likely resulting in some friction in the final Product itself, but that aside, it should still be a solid title. Much of the framework should already be completed, if anything, it’s just the details that’s left to fill in at this point.
This will happen when you try to run before starting to walk…
deep silver is becoming bigger and bigger. they saved Metro and Saints and now they just saved homefront 2 from sinking crytek. i hope they never forget they started with PC. same with focus home interactive.
Damn son , this is really happening .
Now we know , from where they got the money to publish last week’s statement .
Lets hope that Deep Silver doesn’t charge extra for higher difficulty levels again…
So this is a goodbye to Crysis then?
Damn, I loved that series. 🙁
I hope they keep up development on the cryengine… though they did loose the head tech dev earlier this last month, if I remember correctly….
I guess this means they’re going to finish the game rather than start from scratch. Good guy Deep Silver saves yet another game IP.
“he German studio revealed earlier this month that it has evolved from a
developer to an Online-Publisher, and this move further strengthens that
statement.”
i cant blame them, if i developed ryse for the xboner, id want to stop being a developer as well.
Great that Deep Silver saved Homefront 2! It looks like it will be a great game from based on what they have shown from it.
The main question is: Are they continuing development on the same build using CryEngine, large open levels etc. or are they scrapping all the ambitious stuff and turning it into another corridor shooter with loads of cutscenes?
The Homefront 2 reveal was too good to be true and suspiciously lacked actual gameplay footage, just a cutscene and some concept art. For this reason I doubt much of the alleged gameplay really exists and what doesn’t exist yet is the first thing that’s changed when a new publisher (or even new dev team) takes over.
Conclusion: I predict that Homefront Revolution will not be anything like the promises from Crytek. I’m not going to predict how exactly it will be instead but we all know what the average FPS plays like in 2014 and I reckon 2015 won’t be much different.