Homeworld

A solid and compelling title, that can keep you riveted to the very end, even when play starts to border on frustration blowout. Sure, Homeworld has some warts, but these are generally hidden by the game being fresh and innovative, instead of a regurgitated old rehash. Big and brave Homeworld might be, it doesn't quite add up to the wondrous game we were hoping for.

The spectacle of deep space soon begins to look very empty and the battles repetitive. This game changed the way I viewed computer games Oh, and a note on the visuals in this game - they were so ahead of thier time, they still hold impressive to this very day, rivaling anything you'll see on many of today's consoles. One of my all time favorite Strategy games, and i think one of the first of its kind.

It has its own style and i would go ahead and say even One of my all time favorite Strategy games, and i think one of the first of its kind. It has its own style and i would go ahead and say even today it could be enjoyed by someone who never played it before … Expand. I played it for the first time about five years after it was released, I didn't expect much as the price was pretty low. How was I surprised I played it for the first time about five years after it was released, I didn't expect much as the price was pretty low.

How was I surprised when the game turned to be so awesome. Great story and the climate, amazing music and art, as well as great graphic. First game to fully utilize full 3d combat and movement in space. And what combat it is! Sure, the controls can be confusing a bit at the beginning, but it's nothing a few minutes in tutorial can't fix. The story is simply amazing. Enthralling, one may say, and If you have a heart somewhere there inside your flesh, you will be moved by it.

Maybe even to tears. All in all, amazing game. Although I also enjoy it's two sequels, Catacylsm and HW2, this original has an undifined touch of score and epicness. The Kushan had an ultimatum: Negotiations failed and the Kushan were thrown into another battle [12]. The Kadeshi launched many Swarmers from their Mothership, who mercilessly began to attack the fleet. But the Kushan held their own and managed to repel the many attacks, even developing the Multi-Gun Corvette to deal with the threat.

But the problems were far from over, for the Kadeshi Mothership emitted a strange hyperspace inhibitor that prevented the Kushan from leaving. The Kushan continued their attack and the enemy left, leaving the Kushan free to hyperspace [13]. During the hyperspace jump, Fleet Intelligence examined their enemy and noticed something strange: They decide that they need to leave the nebula, but their plans are thwarted again by the Kadeshi, who laid a trap to stop them leaving [14].

Utilising three Motherships with the same inhibitor technology, the Kushan were forced out of hyperspace and into a large trap. Again, the Kadeshi tried to negotiate, but Karan uses their knowledge to suggest that the Kadeshi were related. Their enemy, however, would have none of it, clearly frightened of the Taiidan Empire , determining that the Kushan would fail in their task. With that, the Kadeshi swarmed the Mothership, bringing their strongest frigate to defeat them: However, the Kushan were prepared and managed to deal with the enemy, even choosing to capture some of the enemy frigates for their own.

They also managed to wipe out two of the enemy motherships, before the assault was over. While the remaining mothership moved out of battle, it was noticed they were moving to a point with a consistent reading and which had a friendly signature. The Kushan regrouped and prepared the final attack, but when they reached the enemy, the truth was discovered: Unfortunately, the enemy had to be destroyed so they could leave the Great Nebula and continue their journey [15]. The Kushan exit hyperspace in an empty area of space to regroup and prepare for the enemy.

During their preparation, an enemy signal is detected and is investigated. When investigated, several enemy vessels are seen to be surrounding the signal and only attack when the Kushan go near it. Almost immediately, they order an attack on the Ghost Ship to disable its field. After hard losses, the gravitational field is disabled and the enemy ships become available to the Kushan, including an enemy Missile Destroyer.

The Ghost Ship is salvaged and the Kushan learn that it's very old, but they don't know the purpose of it: Now prepared to attack the Taiidan Empire , the Kushan decide to attack a lightly defended Research Station which is studying a supernova. The attack is not easy, for the supernova is emitting intense radiation, forcing the Kushan along tight corridors of dust to reach the station.

The station and its garrison is easily wiped out by the Kushan fleet, allowing them to progress further towards Hiigara [17]. However, progress is halted again. The Kushan must save a Bentusi Exchange , which is under fire from some Taiidan vessels, for now the empire knows the Bentusi have been helping the exiles in their journey. The Kushan scramble to save their allies, capturing an enemy Heavy Cruiser in the process. With the Bentusi saved, they decide to tell the Kushan more about what happened, promising to go to the Galactic Council [18] [19].

As the Kushan travel in hyperspace, they are pulled out of it in another trap, this time set up by the Taiidan Empire. Using some Gravity Generators and various support ships, the Kushan Mothership is assaulted, with no access to their Strike Craft as a result of the field.

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But the Taiidan were underprepared, because the trap had actually been set up for a different person entirely. Elson arrives, just after most of the enemy trap fleet had been destroyed, also under attack from the Taiidan. Fleet Intelligence orders for the protection of Elson, even though it could be a trap [20]. After protecting the defector, he reveals that he is a member of the Taiidan Rebellion , a large task force who opposes the current Empire. He asks that the Kushan direct him to the Karos Graveyard to send a coded transmission to the other leaders of the Rebellion, for which they agree [21].

In the graveyard, the Kushan push through the many automated defences, destroying the Junkyard Dog and many Auto Guns placed around to protect the derelicts from harm.

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Using their own Strike Craft, the Junkyard Office is activated and the transmission sent. Before leaving, Elson provides important co-ordinates to the Kushan, promising to rejoin them later [22]. Now so close to Hiigara, the Kushan push on, but are stopped by a large Field Generator that forms part of the inhibitor network surrounding their homeworld, for Hiigara is actually the capital of their enemy. Elson gave co-ordinates for the most vulnerable generator, although the Kushan realise that the generator is still heavily protected.

Through cunning and a tactical mind, helped by the improvement of the sensor grid through a Sensors Array , the generator is destroyed and all enemy ships captured or destroyed [23]. With the generator down, the Kushan have full access to reach their homeworld and proceed at full strength towards it. However, they had to assume that the generator's destruction wouldn't go un-noticed and had to prepare for the final battle. The Kushan were momentarily stopped in their tracks on the very outskirts of the Hiigara System: But the Kushan had a strong fleet, able to destroy the small fleet and the asteroid, now ready to fight the Taiidan Emperor at Hiigara [24].

However, their final battle would not be easy. During the jump to Hiigara, the Taiidan Emperor disabled Karan S'jet and placed the fleet into disarray. Without Fleet Command , it would only be a matter of time before the Kushan's attempt would be foiled. But Fleet Intelligence directed the fleet to defeat all the attackers while they focused on Karan's well-being.

Captain Elson , as promised, arrived in the system and helped the Kushan to defeat the Emperor and the Taiidan fleet [25]. In the final seconds S'jet comes back online at last and witnesses the death of the Emperor. With the war over and the Kushan victorious, the Galactic Council arrives and allows the Kushan access to Hiigara.

Their exile at an end, the Kushan begin landfall and celebrate. Karan S'jet insisted to be the last person to set foot on Hiigara, who had survived the extraction from the Mothership [26]. The original Homeworld is played from a 3D perspective: The ships can be moved in any of the six geometric directions.

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At the time, this was an unprecedented feature. Despite the game being played in the void, there is an arbitrarily established plane in reference to which there is a sense of up and down. Ships are divided into various classes: Each ship is strong against one or more type of ships while being weak against other types, so it is up to the player to decide which ships to use.

The single-player campaign consists of 16 missions. The player can choose to play as either the Kushan or the Taiidan. Their multi-stage journey across the galaxy takes them through asteroid fields, a giant nebula, a ship graveyard and several Taiidan outposts. Along the way, they fight other descendants of their Hiigaran ancestors who have turned to piracy. They also meet the Bentusi, a race of traders, who sell them advanced technology. After discovering that the Bentusi have given aid to the exiles, the Taiidan attempt to destroy them, but are stopped by the Kushan fleet. In gratitude for the Kushan's intervention, they promise to summon the Galactic Council to consider the Kushan's claim to Hiigara.

As their journey continues, the Kushan fleet gives sanctuary to the Taiidan rebel Captain Elson. With his help, they rally a rebellion to distract the Taiidan fleets. The emperor manages to knock Karan into a coma for the duration of the battle, but the combined Kushan and rebel fleets defeat the Taiidan regardless.

When the Kushan make landfall, Karan insists to be the last one to set foot on the planet. Relic Entertainment was founded in Vancouver, Canada, on June 1, , and began work on Homeworld as their first title. Williams is credited with the original story concept, while the script itself was written by Martin Cirulis and the background lore was written by author Arinn Dembo.

Relic did not specifically set out to create a real-time strategy game; Garden and Relic were primarily focused on making a game with exciting large-scale space battles, and chose the genre in order to support that. As a result, they did not try to make innovative gameplay changes in the real-time strategy genre, but instead worked on making implementing the genre in a fully 3D space to make the space battles they envisioned.

The fact that it's real-time strategy was almost a fluke. He drew further inspiration from correcting what he felt were the limitations of the first-person space flight game Star Wars: The focus on the combat drove several other areas of focus for the development team: The sound design, audio production, and music composition for the game was contracted to composer Paul Ruskay and Studio X Labs, which he founded in February after starting on Homeworld in October The piece, in turn, became a central theme on the soundtrack.

Homeworld was highly regarded by critics upon release; it is listed by review aggregator Metacritic as the highest rated computer game of , and the fourth-highest on any platform for the year. The gameplay advances were also highly praised by critics: Lopez claimed that "Relic not only tackled space, but may have just changed strategy games forever. They felt this connected the player to their fleet as more than disposable units, and added a level of strategy to the game.

Homeworld ' s single-player plot received mixed reviews; Lopez claimed it would keep players "rapt with attention", Samuel summized it as a "superb story", and Levine said that it was "the first computer game to capture the grandeur and epic feel of the Star Wars movies". Kill the enemy", while Ryan criticized the length for such a "meager single-player game".

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Levine stated that "multiplayer in Homeworld is a joy", while the Eurogamer review called it the game's strongest part. Homeworld was released to strong sales and won multiple awards; [36] it sold more than , copies in its initial weeks, [37] and over , in its first six months. It debuted in third place on Germany's computer game sales rankings for October , before dropping to 25th, 31st and 32nd in the following three months, respectively. Homeworld inspired a series of real-time strategy games in the same universe, beginning in September when Sierra Studios released a stand-alone expansion by Barking Dog Studios , Homeworld: Taking place 15 years after the events of Homeworld , the story centers on Kiith Somtaaw—a Hiigaran clan—and its struggles to protect Hiigara from a parasitic entity known as the Beast.

The game, set a century after the original Homeworld , pits the Hiigarans against a powerful, nomadic raider race called the Vaygr. Deserts of Kharak , was developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software in A prequel to the series, it is set on the planet of Kharak instead of in space, and features a war between Kushan clans during the discovery of the buried spaceship from Homeworld.

In , Relic Entertainment was bought by THQ , which confirmed in that it had acquired the rights to the series from Relic and Sierra. He also noted that neither game had code in a releasable or playable state when purchased, and they ended up recreating many of the original development tools with the assistance of the Homeworld mod community.

Cataclysm was not announced for a remake, despite the outspoken interest of Gearbox, as they were unable to find the original source code for the game. Released digitally on February 25, , for Windows computers by Gearbox and on August 6, , for macOS by Aspyr Media , the collection includes the original and remastered versions of the two games. As of February , Steam Spy estimates that over , copies of the Homeworld Remastered Collection have been sold on the Steam distribution platform.

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