Edited on: October 2, 2025
Posted on: October 2, 2025
Keihltrein
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 3082 Rezensionen: 15
Great "remaster" and good "remake"
But with some reservations, the main reason that this isn't a 5 star game for me despite Homeworld 1 being my favorite game, is the fact that this is sold as a remaster when is better to have in mind that Homeworld 1 is being remade and Homeworld 2 is being remastered. Both games are using the Homeworld 2 engine now, so when it comes to visuals, Homeworld 1 is the most benefited by this, even back the day the original HW2 engine was way better visually than HW1 but now we both games got: 4K resolution, better lighting, extra effects, retouched cinematics and clearer audio tracks This unification of engine also made possible to have a full multiplayer experience that includes both games in one, meaning 4 races (2 by game) are available in multiplayer. Also this made easier to have mod support that works well in both games, and the HW community is big into modding you will find from the most simple to the most extreme total conversion, the HW engine is an amazing platform for multiple types of universes and franchises. This package also includes the original games, this is important for a preservation standpoint, many remasters/remakes usually are made with the intention of making your original copies be useless, not available to purchase, or even to be removed from your libraries depending on the platform, here is not the case, they decided to embrace the origins of this franchise and give you the unadulterated experience you could have back in 1999 and 2003 This opens the review to the negatives, I come back to why i didn't give this a 5 star review and is the fact that in the transition to HW2 engine, HW1 lost a bit of its soul. The original game used a ballistic system for the ammo, the movement was more inspired by 6DoF seen in space combat simulators, the game had formation and tactics. None of this systems were preserved in the second game, which became more RNG based, more "cinematic"in movement and less tactical. As you can imagine part of this is still the case in the Remaster, while post launch support made it so that part of the original identity could be recreated in the new engine, for example: some of the formations came back, some weapons use a similar ballistic system to the original, the movement while still being far from the original it looks closer to the original than before, but sadly to experience this without issues you have to use a community patch that also adds some features and rebalances the game, all because Gearbox decided it wasn't worth it to continue to update the game and leave it in a better state. Some extra nitpicks could be the fact that some cinematics of HW2 are not better compared to the original, the level of care they put on HW2 cinematics is lacking compared with the amazing work they did with HW1 cinematics. Also the HW2 original voice actors got replaced by the HW1 ones, this are the lines being rerecorded by HW1 actors in 2014, which could be a negative for some people and there should have been an option to let you choose the original HW2 voice actors. Overall this is an amazing package, especially one for RTS fans, this is the first fully 3D RTS game, this is gaming history, it created a subgenre that we still see today with many space RTT/RTS games and it was important to be treated with respect, the inclusion of the original games is amazing testament of the respect the devs and the publisher had for the franchise, and for that alone just makes the negatives a bit less important because, if you really don't like something the remaster has done especially on HW1, you have the original right there and you can give it a go whenever you want. As I said, there's a lot of games inspired by Homeworld, but none of them are close to fully capture what this franchise is, give it a go, experience it for yourself, consider this a total recommendation not only from a fan, but as someone that loves gaming, this is something you can't pass up.
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