![]() More than likely, if my mom allowed me, I’d fall in love with the simple promise of being whisked away to the stars. Starsiege: Tribes, Suikoden II, Half-Life, Giants: Citizen Kabuto and more were all stabs in the dark that paid off with hours of enthrallment in front of the glow of a CRT.Īs a young sci-fi fan, all anyone had to do back then to wrestle my hard-earned money from my wallet was throw some spaceships on a box. I discovered some of my favorite games with just the blind promises of the back of a box. The best you could do was to read a review or watch a grainy, minute-long Quicktime video that you spent an hour to download on 56k while hoping your $50 wasn’t spent in vain. It was a time when every video game purchase was a gamble. There's no guarantee that Gearbox will make a sequel unless this offering is wildly successful, but having played it for the last week or so, I've now got a very particular desire for Homeworld 3.In 1999, I was 11 years old. The Homeworld: Remastered Collection is the opiate you'll use to get between fixes of the good stuff. Fundamentally, bringing them back is valuable, great work, but it only serves to remind players of what they aren't getting today. No matter how polished and beautiful these games are, the point deserves repeating that the biggest, newest 3D space-based real time simulation is a remastered edition of two titles that are 16 and 12 years old. With that in mind though, would I recommend it? Absolutely. Keep in mind that it's an older game and thus still-at least in my opinion-a bit more difficult than your average modern RTS. Homeworld is the rare game that, because of its unique approach to a rote genre, feels just as impressive today as it did in 1999. I hate to harp on Resident Evil and Grim Fandango, but neither of those games are as accessible or revolutionary in 2015 as they were when first released. That's something that can't be said of so many other HD remakes. Not only has Gearbox put in the work to modernize Homeworld, but the core game hasn't aged too poorly either. Homeworld Remastered is exactly what I want from this sort of preservation exercise. With only a few missions and ideas that stand out as poor with the benefit of hindsight, it’s amazing how well Homeworld holds up as a single-player focused RTS, and I can recommend it as strongly today as we did in 1999. Over the 15 years since it first came out, these exciting, large-scale space battles haven’t been matched, much less surpassed, and its outstanding atmosphere and story can teach modern game developers valuable lessons on how to make the most of simple animation, dramatic camera angles, and a largely classical score. Homeworld: The Remastered Collection does a fantastic job of polishing up and reintroducing these formerly hard-to-experience classic real-time strategy games. ![]()
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