The Homeworld Remastered Collection includes:
Homeworld Remastered Edition
Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition
Homeworld Remastered Multiplayer
As a bonus, you will also receive free access to:
Homeworld Classic
Homeworld 2 Classic
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RT...
As a bonus, you will also receive free access to: Homeworld Classic
Homeworld 2 Classic
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation. Utilize advanced research to construct ships ranging from light fighters to huge carriers and everything in between.
The Homeworld games have been painstakingly re-mastered with key members of the original development team and taking critical influence and assistance from the passionate fan community. The Homeworld Remastered Collection introduces Relic's acclaimed space strategy games Homeworld and Homeworld 2 to modern players and operating systems using the newest sophisticated graphics rendering technology, plus a fully remastered score and new, high fidelity voice recordings by the original actors.
As a free bonus, this collection also includes original, non-remastered versions of Homeworld Classic and Homeworld 2 Classic, preserving the purest form of the original releases with compatibility for modern operating systems.
Homeworld Remastered Collection also provides access to Homeworld Remastered GOG Multiplayer. The competitive multiplayer modes for both Homeworld and Homeworld 2 have been combined into one centralized mode that will allow you access to content (races, maps, and game modes) and improvements, features and technology from both games, allowing you to play unlimited competitive multiplayer space battles on an epic scale.
Build and battle with more than 100 space ships
Updated high-res textures and models
New graphical effects
Support for HD, UHD, and 4K resolutions
New audio mix using original source effects and music
Cinematic scenes recreated in beautiful high fidelity by original artists
Mod support and mod tools
Bonus archival versions of Homeworld Classic and Homeworld 2 classic, preserving the purest form of the original releases with compatibility for modern operating systems
Access to Homeworld Remastered GOG Multiplayer: play Homeworld races against Homeworld 2 races with up to eight players on 23 maps, plus brand new game modes
All Homeworld 2 Remastered Tutorial Missions Completed
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Additional Notes: * Game engine uses OpenGL3.3 It is important that you get the latest drivers for your video card to ensure compatibility with this product.
Multiplayer requires GOG GALAXY and is available only between GOG users.
Recommended system requirements:
Additional Notes: * Game engine uses OpenGL3.3 It is important that you get the latest drivers for your video card to ensure compatibility with this product.
Multiplayer requires GOG GALAXY and is available only between GOG users.
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Playing through and for some reason, in Mission 3, it sends an impossibly large fleet to*SPOILER ALERT* destroy all the cryotrays before your fleet can even launch. OG Homeworld gave you a chance to rescue at least 5 of them. I watched a Youtoube playthrough and the fleet the computer sent to attack the cryotrays consisted of about frigates, not a literal dozen. I'm looking all over the place for a difficulty adjuster and there is none; I thought I had gotten ambitious in my difficulty choice, but no, it's a horrible lack of balance.
It's *NOT* a skill issue - I've played and finished OG Homeworld before. Something is horribly broken about the scripting in this game and IDGAF enough to fix the developer's screw-up.
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.
I haven't played the original version, so this remake is a new game for me.
Part 1:
Undoubtedly worthy of this classic work, the difficulty level is just right. I can comfortably control my steel army to fiercely strike enemies, even with a few setbacks, which is completely acceptable.
Part 2:
At first, I felt like I borrowed a lot from the expansion pack of the first part, and the importance of military restraint became significant. The deterrence of large and medium-sized ship groups has been severely weakened, so that the enemy can easily destroy my fleet, but I find it completely difficult to deal with (because the enemy is mixed). I got stuck in the fourth level, and a huge sense of frustration from multiple failures enveloped me.
I know this is largely due to my poor skill level, as was my 1-star review of the first expansion pack a few days ago. But what impressed me most was that the "Halo: Wars" series was fun and easy to play, and the difficulty design was just as good as the first "Homeworld" game!
Homeworld 1 is a classic. Homeworld 2 is only remembered well by people with nostalgia goggles.
Homeworld Remastered turns both games into Homeworld 2. In the case of Homeworld 1, this means that the difficulty ramps to unplayable levels due to a fleet-size-based scaling function that was clearly not tested by the developers. Effective strategy on level 2 makes level 3 an instant game over without mods.
Essentially, this is a one-star review with a second star added for having the original Homeworld 1 attached.
A really cool and unique RTS, beautiful visuals nice music, cool story. The campaign doesn't have a difficulty setting , however it gets harder as you progress in the missions (since less then 10% people completed HMR1 and less then 5% in HMR2 lol).
Happy with the purchase!
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