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Wow this is cool!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game really does have what it takes to make it! It's full 3D and the graphics are just plain old cool! Sound gameplay it's all here, and this version comes with the soundtrack and game guide!

Sure, it's the game of 1999

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I hav heard this game for a while, especially from some of my friends who are reviewing games also. They recommended me strongly to play this game. Finally before the end of 2000 I bought this game and wanted to find out what was good in it made them so into it.

The first thing impressed me was not the mother ship or the models of the crafts. It's the music and the story. When I moved to the thrid single mission and heard the line "There is nothing left here for us." and you could see the whole planet was gone. What a feeling of this when all your past was gone just like snapping your fingers.

When I moved on, I learned more from the story and like the music a lot. It made me spend a great deal of time to play the single missions with different approach. I even spent the night to play this when I host the thanksgiving party at my place. Ya, I am too into it back then and want to see where it would go.

The ending was also good when I finished the last mission. Especially when the lady of the core of the computer came out thei ship, it made me a great joy and relief, like to be home again.

Then I tried the multiplayer games and played with other people on line. Well, it's a different taste but also great. I learned a lot through the battles.

Highly recommend this real-time game especially you never tried anything like this before.

Maybe I am missing something.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is by far one of the most boring RTS games I have ever played, and I have played alot of them.

Just like in most RTS games, you have to collect resources. I spent most of my time waiting for the resource collectors to bring the resource. It was so boring. The single player mission was spent over half the time waiting. Waiting for resources. Waiting for your ships to build. Waiting for researches to finish.

The graphics were ok, but given the fact this was a 1999 game, I can see where the graphics would have been pretty good though I believe Total Annihilation, Starcraft, and especially Age Of Empires (which all 3 came out before Homeworld) looked better. The ships looked cool, but if you zoomed in on them, they looked pixally. And the cutscenes were just ok. It was cool to be able to see a 360 view of every ship though.

The battles weren't anything spectacular. You couldn't really see of hear any of the fighting going on. Just the same droning music over and over (the music was cool the first few missions, but gets rather boring later). It was also impossible to follow the battles as your camera follows one of units or the other.

The best thing about this game was the story. The story goes like this: A spaceship was found buried in sand here on Earth. Using that technology and the history found on the ship, they built their own ships so that they could head to their real Homeworld. As the story unfolds and new enemies and friends are made, the story keeps this game going. At least for me, that is the only reason I continued to play this game.

I read all of the reviews on many gamesites including Gamespot and Gamespy and many of the reviews here, and maybe my expectations were high, but one review said that no has since done what homeworld has done. And I believe the reason is who would want to. The idea about completely 3D space game is good in concept, but it takes away from the gameplay too much. This is definitely nothing like the games I mentioned before, but having played over 50 RTS games, this one didn't do it for me.

Next up is Homeworld Cataclysm. I bought all 3 Homeworld games at the same time because the price was cheap. So I don't feel like I was cheated too much. Game wasn't for me, but maybe it is for you.

It's really fun...I hear

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I couldn't make it work, not even on my brand new HP Pavilion laptop with the Pentium 4 and 168 MB of free RAM. Apparently, my drivers are incompatible, and I won't be changing my computer just to play this game. Also, Sierra Studio's web site tech support has a veritable phone book of complaints on every one of its games. This does not inspire confidence. Plus, the theoretical "solution" they recommended to me required multiple purgings and adjustments to my hard drive--forget about that! I was really looking forward to this game, but had to send it back because of technical problems. If you have any doubts about compatibility, you might want to skip this one.

Awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Own the game, beat in 2 weeks. Pretty easy to learn the controls, hard last missions. Now, I change it around with mods, thats it.

Execellent Game . . . in theory

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: July 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In theory this would be a Excellent game but after i bought it for its good reviews i learned quickly that i should have downloaded the demo first. Well that was a waste of money it is hard to control everything (bad user interface) in 3d and basically it gave me a headache, i am sticking to 2d games until they make an brain interface device for me to control the ships bc thats how hard it was for me to control everything. And it was quite boring! Usually i don't write reviews and i usually like Sierra games but this one is just horrible. Maybe i could trade it off to one of my friends. don't forget download the demo first.

bought with great expectation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 26
Date: June 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i bougfht this game with great expectations, but i didn't like it in the least bit, its got an awsoem story lien and greta gameplay, i just don't liek 3drts, to you 2d rts fans, this is nothing liek a 2d rts, i found it very boring, and extremely annoying how the veiw system works..

Great 3D but "Science-Wise" A real DOG

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 39
Date: February 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The VISUALS in this game are ABSOLUTELY STELLAR!

I must really commend their programmers and artists! If you are looking for graphic and artistic "WOW"... this is the vehicle you should purchase!!!!!!!

If, however, you are also looking for any type of intellectual, or "Scientific" realism....."LOOK ELSE WHERE!

This SIM is so full of scientific HOLES simply dredging through the "Volumous" manual will make you wonder why the company hired a 12 year old to manage the "Science" of the "Universe" they were creating!

If I wasn't being insulted by the insipid explanations of..."How the intelligentia overcame the volumous problems of technological difficulties..."

I was being insulted by the "Means" in which the same "Scientific Intelligencia" overcame the constraints of basic AstroPhysics!

BOTTEM LINE......

If you are 10 years old.....This stuff is KILLER (NO CONTEST)

If you are >10 years of age.....

STAY! AWAY!

You will have to SUSPEND so much intellect that it will eventually cause you to convulse!

Don't say I didn't warn you!

I attempted to suspend logical thought for three levels......

Eventually I could not become that stupid!

This is a sorry tale!

I wish "Really" that it was not so...

but if you can suspend reality...then this is a KILLER GAME!

good game for it's time.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was a good game for it's time but I think it's showing it's age.

Good Game for its Time.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was a good game. I played ORB first and found myself always comparing the two. The graphics were ok but could have been better for 1999. The story was mediocre. It was about a stone found in the middle of a desert on Earth and it had a map of the humans first home called Hiigara or something like that. The people of Earth built a spacecraft and transplanted a girl named Karen into the mother ship itself. She is similar to the master computer in the show "Star Trek." Are you getting all this.....That's what I mean. It's such a ridiculous story but the game gave birth to ORB, HW Cataclysm, and HW 2.

I hope HW 2 graphics is similar to ORBs. Next up for me is HW Cataclysm and then HW 2. I will do a review when complete. See my review on ORB.

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