Homeworld® Remastered Collection

You are 100% of the time under the assault of an enemy that has no resource limit, no slowing down, and seems to exponentially increase its production of ships the more you destroy their ability to make them. Just pretend fighting the final battle of the original Homeworld, with no preparation time and a handful of fighters and virtually no resources. Each mission doesn't allow you to stay and search for more resources to build, there is no explanation to what and how the ships you make, actually attack so you're stuck making them just to see what they do. Each mission gives you no time to think or maneuver. The second when one objective is complete, a whole enemy fleet arrives in FORCE. Wash rinse repeat. On the 3rd mission, you are told to defend a space station and repair it, but as soon as you stop the small fleet attacking it, it auto heals then jumps you to the next part of that mission. You have no time to rebuild your forces. I made 7 squads of bombers that attacked on carrier and almost destroyed it on the 1st pass then just spiraled around one side of the carrier as half of them were blown away before finally deciding to turn around and attack again. When you destroy one of the 3 carriers making waves of bombers and fighters AND marine cruisers, the 2 remaining make ships FASTER. I know this because there was a map blinding red flow of enemies coming from the remaining carriers that my 5 laser cruiser and 2 flak groups couldn't even defend against, when they did just fine against 3 carriers. If all this game is going to be is a struggle and not an ounce of fun, then what's the point? The plot/story is freaking stupid. Is the entire galaxy out to lunch as the Vegyar rebuild their empire and systematically take over ALL your planets? Did the Higarians learn absolutely nothing from the last two games? This game is just not enjoyable to play.

The good parts: - Space - Nice ship models and fights - Good story - Skirmish mode is playable and fun The fatal flaws: - Slow, very slow gameplay. The strategy involves moving in 3 dimensions is useless or won't do any difference against CPU. You need to save before every maneuver. - The campaign's difficulty scales different, can't be set. There are stages which is way too easy and others are impossible. I can't beat the last mission because I have too large fleet. The enemy grinds me in a minute. - During cutscenes, the game doesn't stop, but you don't have control. This means say good bye to your progress if you are in a fight and a cutscene comes. You need to skip as fast as possible every ingame cutscene. Overall it would be an epic game if there is a patch for the flaws. For the newcomers to this game, don't listen to those this is master piece. You can't look up videos, guides to help you with tactics, because it is different for everyone. If you build a large fleet, the next mission maybe impossible. You need to do all over again the previous mission with limited fleet to have chance in the next one. This is outrageous. I have my own past with Warcraft, Starcraft and C&C games and other not well known RTSs, but this is uniquely bad. Not even Player's Patch 2.3 helps it...

Never played a homeworld game until now. Excellent, Excellent Excellent. Best Artwork and Storyline for a game that I've played in a long time (not often nowadays I want to play a game's single player campaign just to find out what happens in the story) The first levels where the three-dimensionless of the battles gets introduced are like 'huh this is amazing, I bet this game is gonna get pretty tactical." But how far could that really go? Especially for an older game? And then you take on the first fleet and you realize that it's true what they say - they just don't make them RTS games like they used'ta. Absolute mayhem. And challenging gameplay. Basically, it's Ender's Game.

Never played the original release and I'm not much of an RTS fan, but I like this one. This game uses a clean and classic mission & story telling format that simply works. As a player who doesn't play RTS games that much, I've played Homeworld: Remasterd for about 10 hours now and its interesting, entertaining, immersive. Story & Intro Scenes are well done with top notch voice acting. Music is excellent and favors celestial moods, themes of destiny and discovery. Graphics Performance: It runs perfectly on my budget pc. (GTX 750 1gig vram) Visual Effects: Excellent. Tasteful and not overly flashy. Controls: Feel very classic and understandable. The tutorial & early missions were very helpful due to the small steps of increased difficulty, which is great to me because I rarely play any sort of RTS game. Difficulty: I'm only half through the game and the difficulty has increased at a fair pace. Flow & Pace: Its interesting & immersive. The missions and tasks are not overwhelming. The missions are not using quirky mechanics. There are a mysterious moments and plot developments but they advance the story and game difficulty with an immersive pace. Overall: 5 Stars. Purchased this on sale and its totally worth it.

If you're getting this game, PLEASE get the players patch. It fixes most of the errors and bugs that come with this game and makes stuff like formations actually a thing. This is mainly for homeworld one players but the point still stands. That aside, this game fucking rules.