Homefront sequel is planned

Kaos Studios’ Homefront, a near-future FPS set in America, won’t be hitting stores until March 2011, but this hasn’t stopped publisher THQ from thinking ahead to a planned sequel.

Speaking at IDGA, Core games boss Danny Bilson said: “The sequel has new features and doesn’t even deal with the same characters.”

He added: “It takes place on the other side of the Mississippi – nobody knows what’s going on over there because the North Koreans have irradiated the Mississippi with radioactive iodine and nobody can cross it without a hazmat suit. It’s very interesting stuff.”

In Homefront the world has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and economies have crumbled. Reduced to a mere shadow of the super power it once was, the United States became the target of a North Korean takeover. American malls, suburbs and city streets are now battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom.

Via Joystiq

THQ must have confidence in its new franchise to be talking about a sequel already, but it seems unlikely work on the sequel has progressed past the point of planning out the story. Should the first game fail to meet internal targets, the sequel could quite conceivably be removed from future plans.