homeworld remastered collection fall cover

It’s currently only in beta, but it allows you to play as any of the four races from the two games. The icing on the cake is the game’s multiplayer, which also combines the resources of both games to create a more satisfying whole. Although the game is split into separate missions your fleet of ships is the same from one to the next, and if one is destroyed there’s no getting it back. The pace of the game is slower than many modern gamers might expect but in part that’s to make sure you don’t rush any big decisions. Homeworld 2’s zoomed out tactical view is one of the most obvious improvements, along with being able to control whole squadrons as one unit, and not having to worry about refuelling smaller ships.

We’d give someone else’s right arm to play the game with a VR headset.)Īlthough both original games are included here in their original forms the remastered versions apply the improvements from the sequel to the first game, so that both merely seem like two halves of the same story. (It strikes us that this would be one game that would definitely benefit from a real 3D effect, but although there’s support for resolutions up to 4K there’s no 3D option. This all works as well as can be hoped, but it takes a lot of getting used to and even experience players can lose track of things when multiple units are converging from different directions. The game does try though, allowing you to attach the free-floating camera to specific ships or objects, and also doing what it can to keep the action on a 2D plane. What kept Homeworld from greater mainstream success is the inescapable fact that controlling objects in 3D space (literally in this case) is difficult, no matter how clever you make the interface. And the gameplay is absolutely of the same standard. From the laboured movement of the bigger capital ships to the tiny fighters wheeling between gun turrets bigger than themselves, Homeworld is a joy to behold for any sci-fi fan. (And just like the second half of the Battlestar Galactica reboot the sequel gets bogged down in increasingly uninteresting spiritual mumbo-jumbo).īut the enormous space battles of the game are pure Star Wars. The game’s basic plot and set-up is straight out of Battlestar Galactica, with humanity having just taken a drubbing and its few remaining ships leaving to discover their ancestral home. But it’s the gigantic spaceships and their legions of smaller craft that makes the game so mesmerising.

Homeworld remastered collection fall cover