Homeworld review
Created | Updated Oct 20, 2010
<h1>Homeworld</h1>
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<p>Homeworld is a new RTS game from Canada based software company Relic, published by Sierra. RTS games are nothing new, they've been around for a long time from Dune 2 to Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun. So what makes Homeworld stand out from the crowd?</p>
<p>Homeworld stands head and shoulders above most other RTS games because of it originality. It is the first fully 3d RTS game, ever. What does this mean to the average gamer such as yourself? Welll it allows for even more intense gameplay as opens up avenues to whole new strategies. The graphics in Homeworld are excellent with support for D3D and openGL. You can zoom right in on the ships and see there amazing detail or view everything from far away.</p>
<p>The plot behind Homeworld will be familiar to anyone who has seen the old TV series Battle Star Galactica. A group of spaceships fleeing from an enemy fleet that destroyed their planet trying to find a distant planet which was once their homeworld. This is what is the basis behind the campaign game which involves 15 missions as your fleet tries to escape the enemy fleet and travel across the galaxy to find it's homeworld. New technologies become available as you progress, allowing better weapons systems and bigger space craft. The difficulty level is such that you will find the early missions relatively easy, whilst later on it is nigh on impossible. The campaign takes you through several gorgeous locations such as asteroid belts and nebula ecountering different challenges in each.</p>
<p>The gameplay in Homeworld is excellent with both nice graphics and excellent sound as your units carry out their assigned tasks you can here the radio chatter informing you of what is happening. The game is fully of nice effects such as the cloaking systems which hide your ships from enemy players, to the ion cannons which look stunning as they reduce anything in your way to rubble. The game is interspersed with animations made from the original concept art and in each mission you get scripted events which trigger action of some sort. One nice effect in the game is ability to hyperspace to a specific location, this is rendered in stunning graphics like the rest of the game and can provide a real bonus when it comes to combat by allowing you to drop your fleet right onto the enemy.</p>
<p>Resource collecting plays a very important part in the game as it is this that allows you to build your devastating space fleet. The basic ship for collecting resources is the resource collector (original name that!) and later on you get mobile docking ships for them called the resource controller. You mine asteroids and collect gases which provide the minerals needed to meet production.</p>
<p>The multiplayer side of Homeworld comes complete with support for internet and lan games. The gameplay in multiplayer involves each player having a carrier or a mothership and building a big fleet by harvesting resources or by resource injection ( a method where each player get resources every so often) and battling it out to see who is the victor. There are two races to choose from in the game who each have different ships.</p>
<p>Overall I think Homeworld is a good RTS game with a new and interesting twist. The missions in single palyer will keep you busy for ages, and the multiplayer side of the game will have you frantically trying to beat each other in space combat. I would strongly recommend Homeworld to anyone who like RTS games.</p>
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<a href="http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/homeworld/" target="_top">Offical Homeworld site</a>
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<a href="http://www.relicnews.com/" target="_top">Relic news</a> information about Homeworld.
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<a href="http://www.theoxygentank.com/reviews.shtml?id=hw" target="_top">The Oxygen Tank review of Homeworld</a>
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<p>Homeworld is a new RTS game from Canada based software company Relic, published by Sierra. RTS games are nothing new, they've been around for a long time from Dune 2 to Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun. So what makes Homeworld stand out from the crowd?</p>
<p>Homeworld stands head and shoulders above most other RTS games because of it originality. It is the first fully 3d RTS game, ever. What does this mean to the average gamer such as yourself? Welll it allows for even more intense gameplay as opens up avenues to whole new strategies. The graphics in Homeworld are excellent with support for D3D and openGL. You can zoom right in on the ships and see there amazing detail or view everything from far away.</p>
<p>The plot behind Homeworld will be familiar to anyone who has seen the old TV series Battle Star Galactica. A group of spaceships fleeing from an enemy fleet that destroyed their planet trying to find a distant planet which was once their homeworld. This is what is the basis behind the campaign game which involves 15 missions as your fleet tries to escape the enemy fleet and travel across the galaxy to find it's homeworld. New technologies become available as you progress, allowing better weapons systems and bigger space craft. The difficulty level is such that you will find the early missions relatively easy, whilst later on it is nigh on impossible. The campaign takes you through several gorgeous locations such as asteroid belts and nebula ecountering different challenges in each.</p>
<p>The gameplay in Homeworld is excellent with both nice graphics and excellent sound as your units carry out their assigned tasks you can here the radio chatter informing you of what is happening. The game is fully of nice effects such as the cloaking systems which hide your ships from enemy players, to the ion cannons which look stunning as they reduce anything in your way to rubble. The game is interspersed with animations made from the original concept art and in each mission you get scripted events which trigger action of some sort. One nice effect in the game is ability to hyperspace to a specific location, this is rendered in stunning graphics like the rest of the game and can provide a real bonus when it comes to combat by allowing you to drop your fleet right onto the enemy.</p>
<p>Resource collecting plays a very important part in the game as it is this that allows you to build your devastating space fleet. The basic ship for collecting resources is the resource collector (original name that!) and later on you get mobile docking ships for them called the resource controller. You mine asteroids and collect gases which provide the minerals needed to meet production.</p>
<p>The multiplayer side of Homeworld comes complete with support for internet and lan games. The gameplay in multiplayer involves each player having a carrier or a mothership and building a big fleet by harvesting resources or by resource injection ( a method where each player get resources every so often) and battling it out to see who is the victor. There are two races to choose from in the game who each have different ships.</p>
<p>Overall I think Homeworld is a good RTS game with a new and interesting twist. The missions in single palyer will keep you busy for ages, and the multiplayer side of the game will have you frantically trying to beat each other in space combat. I would strongly recommend Homeworld to anyone who like RTS games.</p>
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<a href="http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/homeworld/" target="_top">Offical Homeworld site</a>
<BR/>
<a href="http://www.relicnews.com/" target="_top">Relic news</a> information about Homeworld.
<BR/>
<a href="http://www.theoxygentank.com/reviews.shtml?id=hw" target="_top">The Oxygen Tank review of Homeworld</a>
