The Future of Homefront and THQ

The Future of Homefront and THQ

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THQ EVP of Core Games Danny Bilson recently sat down with Gamespot and discusses their vision for Homefront as well as their thoughts on marketing budgets for big name games along with several other video games within their portfolio. Below is an excerpt containing their thoughts on where they'd like to take Homefront as a potential series of games..

GS: You showed a live-action Homefront viral clip in your presentation of a man explaining why he was going to undertake a suicide bombing in San Francisco. That struck me because when I played through the game, I saw parallels in the fictitious situation to what's happening in Afghanistan and Iraq right now, but they weren't hammered home or made overt. It was interesting because it felt like you were getting closer to using the game to say something and have a message, which is something other first-person shooters are very much trying not to do.

DB: Right. You know, I'm in no position to start doing PR on the creative future of Homefront, but I will say you're right in the wheelhouse of how we would differentiate it in the future.

My take from this is that they were trying to make a bit of a political statement which could be good or bad, what say you? To read more, including information on a new Saints Row, click here.