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The idea of the United States being invaded and occupied is utterly farfetched to me, and not because of my American machismo or exceptionalism. It just seems arrogant to premise anything — video game, movie, book — on such unearned underdog status when Uncle Sam has in fact done most of the world's invading and occupying over the past 25 years, including some of the ugly things our hypothetical subjugators do to us in these geopolitical revenge fantasies.But if it accomplished nothing else, Homefront, in 2011, did a credible job setting up the idea that such a situation could happen. John Milius, the Red Dawn writer who had an easier job selling 1984 America on a Soviet invasion and occupation, consulted on the story and brought his A-game. Homefront spun a plausible, cascading series of incidents that led to North Korea annexing or dominating most of the Far East. The United States, meanwhile, was left friendless and resource-strapped, with a military bogged down in multiple foreign engagements, and a public sapped of any political will to fight, much less nuke the hell out of any nation that invaded — which you know we'd do if push really came to shove.

Of course, the game went mostly downhill from there. Despite a premise more novel and scenes more emotionally compelling than anything Call of Duty, Medal of Honor or Battlefield had done since 2007, Homefront supported its story with a disappointingly short campaign, helping cement the current perception that the only worthwhile thing a military shooter can deliver is online competitive multiplayer.THQ pressed on with a sequel anyway, but hired Crytek for the job after closing down the spent husk of original developer Kaos Studios and firing all of its demoralized workers. If there's reason for anyone to be happy in THQ's subsequent dissolution and the fire sale of its assets, it's that Crytek, the home of heavyweight shooter Crysis, ended up owning Homefront outright, and was liberated from creating a sequel that under THQ's command sounded like it would be more of the same.

"The original Homefront was quite a linear shooter," said Fasahat Salim, a Crytek designer for Homefront: The Revolution, which will be jointly published with Deep Silver. "That was kind of what we were" with the sequel at the time THQ imploded, he said. "We weren't going completely with it, but it was kind of a level-by-level game."When we acquired the IP, all of a sudden we had the freedom to take this game wherever we wanted," he said. "We thought, what better way to do that than just go open-world with it."
That open world is the fightin' city of Philadelphia, seat of the American Revolution and the setting for Homefront: The Revolution, planned for launch in 2015 on PC (Windows, Mac OS and Linux) PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Its events unfold four years into the occupation of the United States by the Korean Peoples' Army, or roughly the year 2030 in the original canon's timeline. Players inhabit the persona of a fighter named Ethan Brady along his journey to becoming a radicalized American patriot.
Ideally, Salim said, Homefront: The Revolution will emphasize completing a single mission objective and running like hell from overwhelming reinforcements, as opposed to going full Rambo and shooting every enemy in the face.