It's not only a decade, but almost TWO decades now, since I played this game in my college days....people often prettify those good things in their memory to make them better than they actually were, but this, this game lives up my memory so well. The story is engaging, even tried to dig into the Bentusi. For all RTS with single player campaign I've played, this one does the story telling best. Voice acting have more personal emotions in it if compared to the "cold" HW1, some old fans don't like this, but in my opinion that's what it should be for a group of miners in galaxy rim..... they are not powerful fleet command, just commoners, and should act like so. I enjoyed both styles in the end. Music has the tension, direness, desperation feel all over it---again different from HW1's space opera feel, but again suits the game very well. It's a pity that there was never an OST released for this one. Lastly, gameplay is far better than HW1 due to really diversed two factions, while HW1 is really just two sets of ship models. In all, this is a must have if you enjoy HW1. Aside from the dated graphic and the ability to mod, I'd say it surpasses HW2 in every single aspect as well.
