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Summary: Home World 2
Review: To begin the first Home World is better. In Home World 2 you can't turn unit caps off even in multiplayer! You dont need to refule. And now many non combat ships have guns! For example the resourse prosesers have 3 guns. All this takes a lot of the strategy out of it.The graphics are very good! The best I've seen. Mabe a little better than the first HW(Home World). And you can get very cool battle shots with the very manuverable camra. The music is better than the first HW's music. The music in the first is all hmmming or something. This HW has more of a battle type music. The story is not as good as the first HW eather. This one is more of a battle by battle story. Where as the first one had a story. But it is still better than many others. Multi player is also differnt from the first. You have to build storage things to be able to build more ships, but you can only build so many. I would say if you have the first HW not to get this one. But it's so cheep I say get it. It comes with a thick book about the game.
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Summary: Get it together!!
Review: This game has great graphics, but that's about it. The storyline definately needed improving along with the horribly robotic sounding voices. The additions to this game (like support modules and science modules) were the worst. A word to the wise get the original, it is one of the best games I've played. Sierra, I know you guys can come out with more levels and stuff for the original come on!!
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Summary: No one said anything about a patch
Review: In order for me to play Cataclysm I had to download a patch. I purchased the game and found out some one had walked off with my orignal Homeworld game. So I reordered it so I could play Cataclysm, but guess what It would not work until I found a patch and coppied it. So I was a little dissapointed, but other than that I have realy enjoyed the game. So if any one else haves a brpblum with the game a patch will fix it and you can enjoy the game. Best wishes Bruce
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Summary: Good Game
Review: I enjoyed this game but it is not homeworld. The story behind this game was terrific and would keep you playing for hours. As far as game play it was easy to gather hordes of resource and ships are cheap. Having a limit on my fleet through Source Units is a good idea but does take some getting used to, But I could not figure out why I never had to refuel any of my ships? Cataclysm is worth the money and I will keep playing it but I still have the first Homeworld within easy reach. By the way Cataclysm is XP compatible.
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Summary: let's be fair
Review: I think the concept of 3D strategy game is very fine. in fact there are only two up until now, which is the midst of 2002: homeworld, and homeworld catalysm.
I own both of those, and spent some time playing them. I quite enjoyed the new concept, all the flat-out 2D strategy seem to lose their color after I played the homeworld series. I forsee that if somebody actually used this idea of 3D strategy and explioted it to the limits, most 2D strategy games would simply go out of business. For the sophiscated players, I too, look forward to something like this ahead.
Now catalysm did not make the most out of this innovation. I am not saying it is not worth buying, as mentioned previously, I enjoyed them. But notice how some games lack new ideas but has a lot of goodies in it so people would like them? such games as Diablo2, which is really JUST button bashing and ONLY time consuming. no offense to Diablo2 lovers out there, I too, play that. But you must do a bit of comparison between the different qualities of each game. And for homeworld, it is strictly the opposite of Diablo2- It is rich in its ideas, but lacks the goodies to make it attractive, which in my opinion, explains why it is not even close to the popularity as Diablo2 or Quake for example.
It has no movies, has no 'class' (you see a lot about this from other reviews), has no characters(I intend to mean both), no impressive things to put into a movie-trailor type of show-off other then some regular in-game sequences. You will not like it if you only play Final Fantasy X or that sort of thing.
There are rooms for improvements. I definitly think there are vast potentials for this game and anything similar. The strategies are infinite and only bound to player's imaginations, and- button clicking speed which I meant to discuss.
I need to point out, that 3D micromangement can be a lot of pain since it involves a lot of 2D clicking over a 3D dynamic environment. I hope homeworld 2 puts in some scripting options so people can load up subroutines for groups of units, this should automate a lot of things and reduce the clicking (not my idea origin, forgot who but definitly a brilliant one)(Perhaps this would make the game seem like object-oriented or LISP programming?).
Whilest there are huge gaps to be filled by Sierra as for those neat little things to attract public, I hope the revolution continue. Homeworld is a great feat in real time strategy game for the new dimention it introduces. It woke up all the players out there getting bored at the present limits of gaming formats (RPG, fighting, fighting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting......). If you are bored too but have not played homeworld yet, get it.
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Summary: This is a STEAL
Review: At 9.99 this game is a steal! Cataclysm does not require the old Homeworld game, but I recommend Playing the old Homeworld first, for the sake of the intricate and engaging storyline that etends throughout both games. Although the controls for the game may seem daunting when one first looks at the manual, one quickly learns to command the armada with ease. The support systems used in cataclysm limit the total number of unit you can amass despite the amount of resources a player has. This game's graphics are some of the best I've ever seen, and the variety of ships under a players command is formidable. Slower computers will have some trouble with this game, but lowering the texture quality will speed things back up. $9.99 is a ridiculous price for this game!
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Summary: If you love Homeworld, get one this too!!!
Review: Again, great graphics and lots of challenge. If you like Homeworld get this game too.
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Summary: Best Strategy game since starcraft
Review: Best Strategy game since starcraft! It has the same addictive and mind-enveloping gameplay, but now only in 3D!
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Summary: Homeworld Cataclysm the dream come true...
Review: This game is a dream come true to me I've been waiting for the game price to go down for a while now. But it was worth the wait if you like Starcraft then you will love this game It's like Starcraft in that you need minerals but like starwars in how you fly in space and how every craft has it's own controls functions and weapons. The controls are simple yet hardish but that only adds to the fun. The storyline to this game is a lot different from the first. Although you can only have 17 missions they are very long and hard but extremely fun. You have an entire new armada of ships at your finger tips. The interceptors will literally blow you away with upgraded mounted cannons on one side and at their bottom. even though you can only have the most basic of ships that are a mix of the first and new ones like your mining class mothership that later transforms into a huge towering destructive ship. Until you disable ships and bring them to your research vessel on board your Samtaw mothership your stuck with the most basic of ships. But this changes dramatically just within the first levels gameplay. The multiplayer level to this game rules is astounding,amazing,stupendous,astonishing,and cool. Theirs a virus later on in the middle of the game that I swear does something new everytime I go up against it called The Beast. And if your thinking that the graphics are poor then well your wrong.The graphics in this one are even better. This game features a civil war same old same old the usual. The storyline is unique and interesting as well. I think this game is more than worth 9 bucks. In fact the only thing I disliked was that the other enemy in the storyline other than the beast has no new weapons while the beast is the only one with new amazing weapons.
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Summary: Great Strategy Game
Review: Although Cataclysm seems to have flopped in comparison to the original 'Homerworld', I still had to go out and get it despite all the negative reviews I read about it. This is in truth partly because I found the first game so fasinating. However, I do not regret getting cataclysm at all. Infact I think that in many ways Cataclysm even manages to surpass its predecessor. For example, battle is now much more manageable due to the limited number of ships you can have at any one time (But you won't need that many if you play your cards right). Shortcut keys have been made to conveniently control features previously difficult to alter in the original homeworld. In addition features have been added to give greater detail to the whole game (eg- the ship overlay feature). The graphics are as good as ever they were. But what really caught my attention in this release was the storyline. Cataclysm is definitely a fitting title. The story is set 15 years after the arrival of the exiles to their homeworld. You start out as a lowly mining vessel somewhere on the outer fringe of the Higgara solar system. On one of your mining voyages you come accross the entity known as "The Beast". An entity that threatens to devour the known universe if left unchecked. From then on the story develops and your ship is slowly transformed from a mining vessel to the universe's super weapon and last hope for survival.
I usually rely heavily on reviews whenever purchasing games or books but in this case I feel that reviewers have done cataclysm a great disservice. It 'deserves' a five star review. I don't consider myself much of a gamer, I only go out and get a game if its (in my opinion) really really good. So if you loved playing games like starcraft, warcarft, the diablo series, shogun and mech commander then you should definitely give this game a chance.
For me this was 9 dollars well spent
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