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Not terribly exciting

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After purchasing Homeworld (for a great price... always wait until the "Game of the Year" goes on sale for a great deal), I natually felt inclined to try Cataclysm. What a mistake.

The whole beautiful "space is a large, lonely place" premise has been completely manhandled with foolish commentary. The music and sound effects are trite. The ships are still huge, but a lot of the "improvements" or other enhancements seem visual or unnecessary.

The fact that "Barking Dog Studios" (never heard of them) places their logo on the pause screen helps to solidfy the fact that Sierra and Relic seemingly don't want to touch this one. I'm hoping that Homeworld 2, being developed by the Relic team, is a closer match to the awesome original.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Unlike the first homeworld, there's less micromanaging. the Game is incredible. A true challenge for someone who thinks they're tactically competent!!

No! Please! Don't buy this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: January 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The title should say it all. The requisite for the number of stars you give a game is "How much fun is this game?"

Amazon.com doesn't recognize negative numbers.

Cataclysm is not all bad; very few things in life are. The graphics are pretty darned good, and the control interface has, yes, been improved. Not enough to justify the release of this monstrosity in either case.

I bought the original Homeworld the very day it was released. It has now been on my hard drive continuously since that point. It is without any SEMBLANCE of a doubt the best strategy game I've ever played. The game had class; it had flair. The graphics were just _astounding_. The voices were, as computer games go, done very well. The ships were amazing. I spent hours drawing them and designing new additions to them and the like. But that's just me. Anyway, the missions were perfectly scripted and added to the already spectacular game. I remember, I put off the last mission for 4 and a half months because I didn't want the game to end it was that...good! I cried when I had finished the last mission and the thought crashed into my head: "This is it. There isn't any more."

So then, obviously, I was near tears again when Cataclysm was announced and I saw in it my psychological salvation. What actually happened when I installed and ran the game was near sacriledge.

They took a great game and utterly destroyed it. They removed every last shred of je ne sais croire that Homeworld had (tons of it, by the way) and replaced it with utter, run of the mill garbage.

The original game had just the right FEEL, just the right everything. Its creators knew what they had to do and went above and beyond it. Sierra has always been able to tell a story (some of the time, granted, that story is the best part of the game...:P) flawlessly. Homeworld had such a great storyline it could've been (well, "Battlestar Galactica" was, I guess) the basis for a [5 star] movie. Cataclysm's story has promise, and was written very well-just read the manual and you'll see what I mean. But it can't be a part of the Homeworld series. In order for it to work, it needs to be a whole separate game to avoid soiling what the original was.

Cataclysm just isn't good. The points I make and more are in the other reviews. Those who give it 4 or 5 stars don't know what they're talking about. Or I'm overly sentimental. Oh well.

Please don't buy this game. Please. The only thing its good for it using as a skeet and knowing, as little fragments fall to Earth, that you have destroyed a great evil to the gaming universe.

-Baikal

The best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best of space strategy on our Earth.

Get it together!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics, but that's about it. The storyline definately needed improving along with the horribly robotic sounding voices. The additions to this game (like support modules and science modules) were the worst. A word to the wise get the original, it is one of the best games I've played. Sierra, I know you guys can come out with more levels and stuff for the original come on!!

Fun?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 39
Date: December 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just have one thing to say: this game is as fun as you can throw it underwater with your wrists chained to some wall. Also, the interface and mere gameplay feels like an act of congress (looking up how to do things in the manual!) To be frank, don't by this game even if they would give you money in return!

The best game you can find on PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I played the demo for Home World, I knew right away that I fell in love with the game! Now that they have a continued story for Home World which is Home World:Catalysm. I know that it will be better than the first one cause they did a real good job on it and it's not stupid cause they have a story contiued from the first one, plus new ships like the dednaught(very cool! ) And they really got some awsome and strong good reviews about the game. Too bad I only have a low class video card.......the game would really look nice!

Way dissapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The original Homeworld blew me away. From that amazing opening sequence with the Addagio for Strings music throughout the rest of the game. Everything about the game was revolutionary. Game play and intense storyline. Which is why I was greatly disappointed with Cataclysm. Cataclysm didn't invoke any sentiment and failed to completely draw me into the story as did the original. The Catacysm story is a complete waterdown compared to the original. The possibilities in ship building and technologies becomes limited compared to Homeworld. The game is a complete step in about every aspect from the original, except for some nice surrounding graphics. I was very very very very very very disappointed with this. A definitive second rate sequel. I wish I had never heard of this sequel, worse yet played it. I recommend sticking to the original Homeworld. This one will only mar the memory of the original.

great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, great game for anyone who likes science fiction

many buildings and units

the only bad thing is the difficulty in learning how to play it

Best Strategy game since starcraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Best Strategy game since starcraft! It has the same addictive and mind-enveloping gameplay, but now only in 3D!

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