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An innovative game for the true Science Fiction fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Homeworld when it was first released, in 1999. When I first played the game, my reaction was the same as that of many others who have posted their reviews - the interface was difficult to master, the missions were too difficult. Eventually, I gave up and put Homeworld back onto the shelf. It's now 2001, and Homeworld has built up a huge following on the internet. So I re-installed the game on my computer...and got a major surprise.

The first time round, I'd seen this games flaws. It DOES have a difficult to master interface. Its missions are VERY difficult to play - especially those set in the Garden of Kadesh nebula (missions 7 - 9). The big difference is that there are many sure-fire strategies posted on the internet that can assist you in getting past the more difficult missions.

Once you've gotten used to the interface, and the totally new mind-boggling environment of real 3D space, Homeworld is a surprisingly enjoyable game. The graphics are what draw you in first. Two years after it was first produced, and I find the graphics to be totally entrancing. I'm not sure whether even new games like Sacrifice or Giants: Citizen Kabuto can surpass it...at least not without upgrading your PC to a 1GHz CPU.

Like the Command & Conquer games, you have to harvest resources and build a massive army. But there are two big differences - the space fleet you build in one mission is carried over into the next mission. I enjoy this aspect of the game - there's a deep sense of satisfaction when you see the massive fleet of 10 ion-cannon frigates, 5 destroyers and 2 heavy cruisers you just built.

The second major difference is that you can capture other spaceships and add them to your fleet. Annoyed with those pesky multi ion-beam frigates attacking your mothership? Just send a squadron of salvage corvettes after them and capture the entire fleet! This is definitely one of the most important aspects of playing Homeworld - learning how to sneak a squad of salvage corvettes towards an enemy fleet.

The story isn't terribly original. What is original is the style in which it is presented. This is no slick, Hollywood-produced motion-picture like Tiberian Sun or Red Alert 2. The production style is much closer to a pared-back Japanese anime. To be honest, despite the comparisons to Star Wars or Star Trek, Homeworld is a much closer relation to Star Blazers, Robotech or Macross. Especially when you have spaceships like the Heavy Cruiser (a very close relation to Robotech's SDF-1), or the Destroyer (Star Blazers fans will LOVE the wave-motion gun effects from its ion-cannons!).

In conclusion, I strongly recommend Homeworld to strategy gamers with an open mind. When it was first released, very few people had the PC's with sufficient processing power to play this game. Now? If you have anything faster than a Pentium III 450MHz, then I can't recommend this game highly enough. It is a classic that you'll be hooked on and playing years from now. Just buy this game. You won't regret it.

Stunning visuals with great gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Be warned with this game - you need a hugely beefy computer to run it as intended. But once in, the game itself is one of the most satisfying and addictive I've ever played (I usually bore with shooting things). More like an adventure game than a blast everything romp - highly recommended.

Homeworld

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Homeworld -- Relic Entertainment's masterpiece. The winner of the E3 Game Critics Award '99 for Best Strategy and a twenty feet list of other awards. It's several reasons for this: The killer graphics, the awesome game play, the thrilling skirmish mode, the beautiful ambient music, I can just go on and on.

I bought Homeworld the day it hit store shelves and I have yet to get bored while playing it. I have to admit that I don't play the campaign anymore (playing the same story over again and over again is a bit repetitive), but every now and then I play a round of multiplayer skirmish and it's great fun every time.

Homeworld goes out highly recommended, not just to strategy gamers but also to players of other genres. This is not just a thinkers game. It's also packed with a lot of sweet guns and heavy action. Ever wanted to control an ion cannon the size of a medium sky scraper? Now is your chance.

Real-time strategy. Real 3D. Real Game.

Good Graphic/gameplay/plot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has great Graphics (assuming you have a pretty good card, My ATI All-In-Wonder 128 stank, but my ASUS V6800 makes this game rock). You can see very fine game details, and the large scale things look very imposing and impressive.

Gameplay is great, controles are a bit awkward, as would be expected from a 3d game, however, if you are fast enough, and coordinated enough you will survive. It isn't the most difficult RTS in the world, but it's a lot of fun anyway. Also, as far as cheats go, you need a trainer, normal cheats are nonexistant.

Plot is intreguing, you are drawn in by a whole bunch of clues about what happened in the past. You learn a lot about your race on your journey to the homeworld, You make friends and enemies. And you discover some not-so happy cousins along the way.

Forget It

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Forget your job. Forget your family. Forget the outdoors. Forget food and water. Forget StarCraft, WarCraft, Tiberian Sun, Dark Reign, Ground Control, and anything else you might be vainly trying to hold on to.

Remember: Homeworld.

All those other ground-based RTS games are very good (I do not argue that StarCraft is one of the best games to come along in a long, long time.) but they aren't incredible. After a while, I get tired of viewing the map from the same perspective all the time. I get tired of the sun shining from the same spot in the sky, casting the same shadows. And I get tired of clunky game controls.

Homeworld does away with all of these things. Finally, someone sat down and said, "Gee, why are all these games in only TWO dimensions?" Thus was created Homeworld. Along with the extremely forward-thinking game environment, there is a VERY compelling storyline, and well developed characters with whom you must interact. The controls for commands issued are very intuitive, and very easy to learn. Unlike Starcraft, where there is a whole list of shortcut keys to remember, Homeworld uses only a handful. Every special function in your fleet, from activating a gravity well generator, to stealing a ship, to cloaking, is activated with the <> key. Researching, building, launching docked vessels, all of tehse functions use one key each, so learning your way around the keyboard is easy. Once you get used to the 3D environment, the game is completely intuitive. I find myself moving around in deep space reflexively, and I only play moderately.

And that's the kicker. This is the first game to REALLY use 3D, as opposed to just placing 3D characters on an essentially 2D map (which seems to be the case with the much-vaunted WarCraft III, and Ground Control). You can attack from above, below, sideways; what ever direction you choose. It forces you to actually think when engaging in combat.

There's plenty more i could talk about. If you have the hardware, the graphics can be stunning. The different ships are very subtle in their different abilities, and you must use them all to succeed. All in all, it's the best RTS I've seen. Do yourself a favor. Play this one. After Homeworld, I and my gaming companions find ourselves greatly disappointed with other, lesser games.

going home

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is simply the best computer game i've ever played. eye opening graphics, huge spaceships, massive backing storyline. what more could you ask for?

Blows me away...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Think Starcraft - take away a bit of the story and the uniqueness of each faction, set it in space and make it fully 3D - you've got HomeWorld.

I don't know what can be said about the graphics in this game that haven't already been said, but let me try to briefly explain their detail, if not their beauty. Some of the ships have turreted weapons. Not only can you zoom in on a ship and watch its turrets independently rotate and fire, but when they fire, you see the turrets recoil from the shot. Zoom in close enough and you can even hear the turrets rotating. Other impressive details include docking ports on support ships that open and close.

Even more so than the graphics, the user interface in this game is (to me, at least) very intuitive and easy to learn with the included tutorial. My only complaint is that there are two views - the basic in game view and the overall map view - both of which work in real time. My complaint here would be that in the normal view, you can only zoom out so far (making it difficult to manage a large scale battle) without switching to the map view. Sierra should have made switching between these two simply a function of your zoom level, rather than a seperate key.

This is a minor complaint, however.

Finally, I want to say what a good job this game does creating a believable environment - a lot of this has to do with sounds - you hear radio calls of your pilots as they comment on how their routing the enemy, in trouble, running low on fuel etc. Zoom in on an individual ship and see its exhaust. Zoom out on a large space battle and you'll see the closest thing you'll ever see to Return of the Jedi on your computer. Bravo.

This has to be one of the best games to come along in quite a while. Homeworld does for RTS what Wing Commander did for space combat

Very good but slightly buggy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Homeworld is a very good game and it is fun to devise strategy's to defeat your enemies and then watch the battles play out in real time. However, I did encounter a couple of problems. First of all , I couldn't get the game to work with my Voodoo 2 card, so I had to run it in software, which fortunately still looks very good. Also, I haven't been able to get the multiplayer to work yet, but that might be because of my slow connection. Anyway, most people don't seem to have these problems, so if you want a gripping strategy game with great graphics, Homeworld is the current number one choice.

Not hooked

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If a game doesn't hook me within the first half-hour then I'm just not going to see it through to the end. Homeworld just seemed like Age of Empires: In Space to me and the slow, confusing gameplay really got on my nerves. I know that this game has an Army of fans who will denounce my comments, but I simply could not get into it.

Usually, I like space games and I was hoping that this would have a Star Trek-ish feel to it. I also quite the Wing Commander games and since it only cost me 99p then I thought I might as well give it a go. Call me shallow, but it didn't give me instant satisfaction and uninstalled it after only 45 minutes.

eh, I've played better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game over command and conquer because the reviews were off the chart. Unfortunately I was wrong, it's not as fun as I'd hoped. I realize this game is more than a few years old and I'm not a guy who needs good graphics to enjoy a game, but this game was just frustrating for me. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. I'll stick with 2D RTS games thank you.

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