Homeworld (PC)

Homeworld, a real time strategy games that deserves a place amoung the classics. The depth of this game is truly amazing, the graphics are beautiful, and the story line is deep and gripping. The game starts with your homeworld destroyed, but don't worry! your scientists have been building The Mothership! This massive spaceship has been designed to be a home for your species..despite having no planet. But this won't last forever, and now you are in an epic struggle to find a new planet for your species, and survive the voyage there. Grow your space fleet, and research new technologies. One of my favourites is the quick battle mode, which lets you pit a ...  Read the complete review

Homeworld is one of those long, long games designed to be played over numerous sessions (unless you are either a masochist or posessed of far too much spare time and no need for sleep.)Conveniently, it has 16 levels/missions, which helps to divide it up neatly, and you can save part way through a section if you want. The plot: You come from a world that has just developped hyperspace technology, but when you try it out, some aliens come along and wipe out everyone on the planet, leaving only the new ship still in one piece. You have to survive, find out what's going on, perhaps exact revenge. As far as I can make out, the plot is largely something that ...  Read the complete review

Homeworld is an excellent game in almost every way, the graphics are astonishing, there is a good storyline, it has high difficulty levels involving addictive strategy gamepley, a wide range of units and the movement of your units. Well, to start with what is Homeworld? It is a game in which you play one of two races (the Kusians or the Tiadans) both of them have nearly identical ships in type but both look very different and distinctive to that player. Your race has built a magnificent star ship capable of hyperspace jumps of massive distances. When you return from your test flight, after experiencing enemy encounters, you find your home planet destroyed. There is ...  Read the complete review

HomeWorld is a game that you will pick up and NEVER put down, even though I’m writing this a year after the release of HomeWorld, I would still recommend that you buy this game. Shop around and you will find that you can get this game for as little as £20 despite its lack of release on discount label. You are given the choice of commanding two fleets of ships, as far as I can tell there is no difference in the missions that you will play however some of the ships on each side look better than others. You can choose a colour scheme for your ships and this will be applied to anything you build; however the most important and exciting part of the game is the chance ...  Read the complete review

Its a complete gaming experience. It must have just about the best graphics there are (though hopefully your card can render 32Mb as it makes a difference), and most definitely the best sound ever in a game - eery, spooky, racy. And the game? Well that is pretty damn good too. Your mission is to find your homeworld - where you originally came from. Trouble is it is half way across the galaxy, so of course you set off on an adventure and meet many evil beings along the way. Of course, it is fairly standard RTS underneath it all - though the resource colection and reseacrhing is low down in the mix and the battles and graphics are up at the top. ...  Read the complete review