Again, the developers have opted to narrate the linear quest with their trademark sketchy cut-scenes, now overlaid with in-engine cinerrjjrtrcs that complement the epic far from spectacular by today's standards, but atmospheric and unhurried nonetheless. But it is of course the battles that made Homeworld what it was, and in Homeworld 2 they're just as epic.
Hundreds of years have passed since the original tale, so the ships are of course all new, though fulfilling much the same functions.
Fighters, bombers, corvettes, frigates, destroyers and capital ships make up the bulk of your fleet, and though there are a few new additions, the general lack of new and unique ships may come as a slight disappointment. Certainly, some of the new craft are quite cool, like the Marine Frigate that allows you to board and capture enemy carriers, but there's nothing on the scale of the biomechanical menace that was introduced in Homeworld: Cataclysm.
Let's hope this changes before release. Where the developer seems to have concentrated most of its attention is on the graphics and user interface. The crude and empty backdrops that Characterised the original game are now replaced by a universe of bright stars, distant planets and ominous gas clouds.
The wrecks of long-dead ships litter the galaxy, each offering vital materials to recycle, and often a squadron of enemy interceptors ready to pounce on an unguarded Resource Collector drone. Ships offer an impressive amount of detail - the larger craft especially - but it's the sheer numbers of them that's more impressive. Watching hundreds of fighters escorting wings of bombers as they flit about an enemy Carrier , missiles streaming into the unguarded hull - well, it's probably the most impressive sight in sci-fi gaming today.
Group your ships into a Strike Fleet and they can progress at the speed of the slowest ship, yet click on an enemy ship and the fastest among them will peel away, while the Missile Cruisers and Ion Frigates will pound away from a distance. The point is that unlike the original game, you can at last appreciate the scale of the destruction you're inflicting on the enemy, rather than having to master the over-complicated controls and miss the action as a result. Sweeping your view to get a good squint is masterfully simple and though the tactical options are fewer there's no longer the same wealth of formation options, for instance the effects are much more pleasing.
Getting into the action is far quicker too. Smaller ships are ready-built into pre-organised wings, so 50 fighters can be built in a matter of minutes, making it far easier to assemble a hasty defence if you see a fleet of frigates approaching your Mothership at speed. On present form, it looks very much like Relic has succeeded in fixing all that was wrong with the original title, while building on the game's obvious strengths. The interface is indescribably better and more streamlined, and while perhaps not offering the wealth of tactical minutiae of Homeworld, it should ultimately make this version all the more enjoyable for veterans, as well as newcomers.
On the downside, there's not all that much in the way of innovation on display - the ships stick to the established template, the resource management seems hardly changed and the research options offer very much the same upgrades as before.
Personally, I would have liked to have seen a return of Homeworld's supply system and a multi-map system as seen in Conquest: Frontier Wars , but these are minor quibbles at best.
Ultimately, it's difficult to see many veteran Homeworld fans being upset at the state of this epic sequel. It's lavish in detail, rich in gameplay and hugely atmospheric. And the space battles are among the most magnificent we've ever seen.
If, as we suspect, Relic still has a few novel surprises up its sleeve, Homeworld 2 could meet every one of our lofty expectations. The Original Homeworld was a game of stunning playability and originality.
As well as those cute little glowing trails behind the spacecraft, it took space strategy games to a whole new level by immersing the player in a 3D environment where you could move on both x and y axes.
It was a groundbreaking concept that won countless awards, including one for bravery for rescuing a six-year-old boy out of a well. Actually, we could be wrong about that last part. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
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The mothership orders the smaller ships, the fighters and bombers, to intercept the alien craft and inflict whatever damage they can while they assess the threat. The friendly frigates stand at the ready. The fighters and bombers close to firing range, and immediately they're swarming around enemy fighters, making broad passes during which they unleash torrents of weaponry. There's bad news: not only are the mothership's fighters outnumbered, but there is a formidable group of capital ships closing on the mothership's location.
This is going to be an ugly battle. So begins a typical mission in Homeworld2, the long awaited follow-up to Relic Entertainment's award winning real-time strategy epic. The original Homeworld hit the shelves in and knocked the RTS genre onto its ear, daring to use a fully 3D environment and replace the omnipresent tanks and infantry with star fighters, corvettes, and frigates.
It was followed by the awe-inspiring Homeworld Cataclysm, although Cataclysm was more of a mission pack than a progressive step forward. Though Homeworld2 may technically be a sequel, it too doesn't distance itself very far from the original, and in some ways feels like a mission pack itself. However, that doesn't stop it from being a completely addictive -- if sometimes incredibly difficult -- addition to the Homeworld universe.
The Hiigaran, descendants of the Kushan whose home you helped reclaim in the original Homeworld, now face a new test. It just may be the coming of the End Time, characterized by the appearance of the Sajuuk-Khar, a sort of second coming of a demigod Sajuuk.
A member of the warlike race of the Vaygr believes he is the Sajuuk-Khar. Now, using the hyperspace core from the original mothership, the Hiigaran build a new mothership to take on the Vaygr, to defend their home, to find out what really lies in the shaded past of its race.
The plot is advanced through the use of black and white video -- just as it was in the original Homeworld -- and the similarities don't end there. The Hiigaran mothership in Homeworld2 is identical to the Kushan mothership from Homeworld. The graphics, though filled with more detail, higher polygon models, and newfangled lighting effects, look almost identical to the untrained eye.
Ships still leave funky trails behind them as they zip through the galaxy. Bundle info. Add to Account. Add all DLC to Cart. View Community Hub. Utilize advanced research to construct ships ranging from light fighters to huge carriers and everything in between.
The Homeworld games have been painstakingly re-mastered with key members of the original development team and taking critical influence and assistance from the passionate fan community. The Homeworld Remastered Collection introduces Relic's acclaimed space strategy games Homeworld and Homeworld 2 to modern players and operating systems using the newest sophisticated graphics rendering technology, plus a fully remastered score and new, high fidelity voice recordings by the original actors.
As a free bonus, this collection also includes original, non-remastered versions of Homeworld Classic and Homeworld 2 Classic, preserving the purest form of the original releases with compatibility for modern operating systems. The competitive multiplayer modes for both Homeworld and Homeworld 2 have been combined into one centralized mode that will allow you access to content races, maps and game modes and improvements, features and technology from both games, allowing you to play unlimited competitive multiplayer space battles on an epic scale.
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