First off, the fact that this is not only the only example of a survial Horror RTS is not enough, the fact that it is a damn good one is worth all the struggling you have to do for this to work on modern systems. Like any Homeworld game, this is a very well designed game system, and with this being the last game in the 'good' homeworld trilogy (which includes the first Homeworld and the deserts Prequel... 2 doesn't count to me), it has it's own thing going on. You are a mining vessel in a science fiction story... you should be boned from that alone, and the unknowable horrror you naturally unleash should also bone you. But you are player one, you are going to forget you're a mining vessel, set your wimpy mining lasers to 'MURDER EVERYTHING', crack the whips on your researchers and fight tooth and nail to stay alive... or if you're having troub;e, drop the difficulty down for a bit to get through the story. Reccomend it, in spite of it's old graphics and low compatability with modern systems, because this is one of my favorite games of all time, even if I didn't grow up with it and it has zero nostalga points for me.
This is my second homeworld game, where I'm sensing a pattern of short but very well done campaigns that basically are a road trip with guns, potential for disaster at every turn... and lots of fun. I just finished the first homeworld remastered game a few hours ago, and I can say I actually prefer this one a little. With a similar legnth campaign, less units, and maps not utterly cavernous and vast... it feels a lot more focused. Combat can get utterly intense and losing a few cheap units at the wrong time can utterly wreck your day, and clever tactics will be rewarded. Only knocking points for no rebindable keys and relatively poor preformance on my gaming laptop... the thing utterly refuses to play with anything less than utterly low graphics for me and will often switch it back out of what I only guess is some missplaced concern. Still, look forward to load up the ammo
You will marvel at the new fancy graphics, you will gawk at the imaginitve and well designed spaceships, you will cry a bit when things go wrong for the characters in the story, and you will bear your teeth with things go horribly wrong. And if you don't keep your head on a swivel and get a bit of luck, this game will grind you up untill you get on its level... and you will have fun doing it. The insane part is this game is only a year and a half older than me, and all it needs is a fresh coat of paint with some fine tuning for it to hold up.
The Saint's Row series was a mistake, because Voltron should have been pumping sequels for this aging, ugly and beyond bad-ass masterpeice. Buy it, and murder ALL the shivians
