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Homeworld: Game of the Year Edition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game! It may be wonderful, if playable, but many boxes contain CD's erroneously packaged in white paper sleeves rather than a plastic jewel case. The install program requires entering a code from the jewel case. Without it, you've just spent [the money] on a beverage coaster . . .

Homeworld- WORST Game Of The Year Edition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 19
Date: May 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible! If yur thinking about buying this game reconsider...unless u like like sitting in the middle of space
with a bad battle system and a crummy soundtrack. If u did
want this game get StarCraft. IT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

user unfriendly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I found this game very difficult to play. After a few sessions of about 30 to 60 minutes each I put it back in the box and tried to return it to Best Buy. They wouldn't give me a refund or store credit or anything but sympathy. I could probably learn to play it ok with several more hours of practice but that seems more like work than fun.

Titobob

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..

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.

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.

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.

Not Fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: January 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm surprised whenever I read a game review. The reviews are usually too long and don't spend enough time covering the disadvantages of games. Plus,there's a bias in that many of the folks who write a review are those who seem to have had a positive experience. I played the first six missions of Homeworld. The game is interesting and has potential, but I found the user interface to be terribly awkward and cumbersome. I played the game "Starcraft" and loved it. As for Homeworld, I learned the rules and all, but it didn't seem like much strategy was involved -- just seemed like a matter of building more ships to kill the enemy, and then working the controls to get your ships to go where you want. My advice is to play a demo of this game before forking over the cash. If you like this stuff, then great. If the user interface becomes less cumbersome, then I'll probably buy future versions. That's all.

Home World1 By ViciousHomeWorld

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Greeting people. Home World 1 is one of the best RTS (real time strategy) games that I have ever played. It is absolutely awesome and I think that everyone should have it. I will most definately rank this game 5 out of 5 *****. This game is worth its money. I am looking to purchase it again because I have played it for so long that my original CD I bought when the game came out 5 years ago is so scratched up. I am even using a burned copy of my original right now and even my burned copy is getting scratched up.


I at the moment in Home World1 am in the Lost Souls clan. My name is ViciousLS. I design and develope strategies for the game. I have designed over 5 strategies within the past year. One is SSS known as Sphere's Scout Strategy. The other is VGS, the VicaGaran Strategy. I have gotten more than my money's worth of this game and I can assure you that everyone who plays it right now has as well.


The people of Home World range from ages 10 all the way to 60. They all get along. There are also many clans. One clan consists of just people 35 years of age and older. They are known as the OMO (Old Men Online) They however, play many many games besides HW1. HW1 far out ranks HW2. Many of us HW1 people do not like HW2 because of its lack of strategic planning and the skills needed to rush the enemy and over come what he or she might have in store for us. Some of us HW1 players get on TeamSpeak, a voice chat. We play the game and stay on the voice chat to coordinate and plan attacks in the game. I myself have voice chatted with many of the people from HW1 and many from other countries. These countries include: USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, UK, Holland, Bosnia, Belguim, France, and Russia. As you can see, it is indeed a wide variety of countries and it is very fun to chat with people of different cultures and to experience how they play on HW1. I a 16 and have chatted on voice chat and played in HW1 with many many people throughout my career. In time we grow and learn to respect eachother in the game. There are some wiseasses and morons in the game yes.. But most of us still have respect for others. New players are allways welcomed by most and I hope that if you get this game, to PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! Learn the basics of the game... Play the single player missions... Read the manual, it provides a good knowoledge of the game.


I hope to see you soon playing HW1!

<Salute> ViciousLS (ViciousHomeWorld)

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.

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