Homefront 3

"Freedom comes with a price."

- Tagline

Homefront 3 is a first-person, survival, role-playing and open-world game developed by Dambuster Studios and published by Deep Silver. This game is a follow-up to its less-received predecessor, Homefront: The Revolution.

Development
Dambuster Studios announced Homefront 3 at E3 2022, and showcased the game there. It won at least three awards and the short demo was well received by critics.

Learning their mistakes from Homefront: The Revolution, Dambuster Studios decided that they were going to make another Homefront game, which would promise to make similar features from games such as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and the Fallout series, with that combined with the current Far Cry series. Rather than experiencing delays as said with Homefront: The Revolution, they went to work on the game in late 2018. Development took almost five years to complete.

At the eve of E3 2022, Dambuster Studios tweeted on their twitter account showing a gif with a different-looking HUD apart from Homefront: The Revolution with the caption "A journey begins with a single step.". This sparked interest in the Homefront community and as a result, sales for Homefront: The Revolution and the original Homefront has skyrocketed following the tweet.

After a long year of hard work and development on the game, Dambuster Studios released their first beta phase for players worldwide on May 16, 2023. In the following month after the beta phase, Dambuster Studios released Homefront: The Revolution Redux. The Redux version received good reviews and critics called this version a successor over it's original one.

During the same month, Dambuster Studios, alongside with Deep Silver, started an advertising campaign, which involved painting murals all over the city of Philadelphia, where Homefront: The Revolution takes place. As a result, this caused pre-orders to soar, making several video-gaming retail sites crash.

Gameplay
A bit different to its predecessor, Homefront 3 now has significant changes to it's HUD system. It now has a crosshair system, which the player can easily aim at their enemies. Also, the health bar is no longer on the mini-map, instead, it is represented by a bar, same said with the armor.

Also, the player can barter with NPC's to obtain weapons and essential goods needed for survival in the game's world. Prices vary by the player's attitude and reputation.

The phone is now revamped and it features new apps, such as a talk feature to trigger early scenarios, a drone controller to manipulate drones and attack/spy on enemy units, and a Goliath Controller, which will be featured to the player in the later levels.

Hacking returns from Homefront: The Revolution with a twist. Instead of using the controller/mouse to find the KPA Source Code, players will have to solve puzzles, varying by difficulty.