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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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Summary: The Experience Equals its Great Predecessor: Homeworld
Review: The game starts 15 years after the original Homeworld war: the remnants of the Higaraans are divided into two kind of Kiiths(clans?), the ones that was not hybernated and so had to fight their way and later became the inner circles of power in the new homeworld, and the ones that was hybernated and missed the whole, bloody journey and woke up to find their original clan back home destroyed and end up as a less powerful clan. You get to play one of the latter clans called Kiith Somtaw, who mine minerals from asteroids in the near galaxy. The game opens with the two major powers vying for the Higara: The good side: the Higaarans(your people), the new, democratic Taiidan Republic that is on good terms with Higaarans, the neutral Bentusis, and the bad: the remaining Taidanni imperialists and their pals, the Turanic raiders. The balance of power between these two are broken when the Somtaaw fleet finds an ancient emergency beacon that contains a powerful virus capable of eating up organic and inorganic matters. The virus soon turns out to have intelligence and devours anything and everything that comes in its way that includes the initial victim, the research deck of the Somtaaw's mothership that had to be discarded and latter becomes the Beast mothership, and the revengeful Taidanni imperialists literally signs a contract with the devil by joining forces with the creature now known as the Beast in hopes of overthrowing their long time foes... As can be seen, the story is still intriguing, the graphics still superb, 3D functions are still awesome. Nevertheless, some of few downfalls are the lack of new 'enemy' fleet and (still) confusing manuals. Notice only the enemies, whereas the Sometaaw has their own new arsenal. In addition, the part of the manual that explains the past history was still vague(like the original), and that is the reason I wrote the above story line. Overall, having believed what some people criticized 'Cataclysm' as un-original than the 'Homeworld' for a long time and not playing it, I regret that now: this is certainly an improved Homeworld or Homeworld version 1.5. Anyhow, this game is more than good: it is one of the best titles out there for the money right now, and because of this game, I really look forward to Homeworld 2. Grab this title before it becomes a jewel version with no manuals to help you at all. It was a joy to play this game, I applaud the Barking Dogs Studio for their great work, and I definetely give it an A+.
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Summary: great game
Review: Excellent game, great game for anyone who likes science fiction many buildings and units the only bad thing is the difficulty in learning how to play it
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Summary: Exellent semi-sequel to the original game!
Review: After playing the first game, Homeworld, I was having so much fun, it's almost been a year, and i'm still playing it! I couldn't wait for Cataclysm! Now I have it, and it is ALMOST what I was expecting. The graphics are improved, and the controls are better, but I preferred the originals sound. The single-player and multiplayer are not quite as good as the first game, but still very good. This is a very good game, but first, pick up the original, than this game. Can't wait for Homeworld 2. Especially because it's being done by the original's team at Relic Entertainment. ...
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Summary: do NOT get this game
Review: Compared to the original, this game is a bust. You basically have to destroy the "Beast", a creature that takes control over machines and humans. you have to battle your way to their mothership, while facing numerous attacks from rebels, and destroy it. PROS: Great graphics, all new ships, 17 long missions, new abilities; interesting new objectives, and it is a sequal to homeworld, so it has to be a little fun CONS: incredibly easy, even on the hardest skill level; levels get boaring after a while; the only way you can lose is to send your command ship headfirst into the enemy base completely unprotected; the "new" ships are basically re-named, re-done, versions of the old ones, it is so easy to replace ships that you can basically build millions of fighters, kamikazee them, and build them again, and since you never run out of resources the enemy can't stop you,capital ships are too strong(i think i only lost 1 destroyer the entire game), the new ships give you an unfair advantage, for example, in some levels you can use a ship called a leach to completely destoy the enemy carrier without even having to fight it, your command ship is too impervious to attacks and you barely have to leave an escort with it, you can't get the best ship in the game to use in multiplayer, and it is kind of anticlimax. there is no final video or anythign like that.
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Summary: Not terribly exciting
Review: After purchasing Homeworld (for a great price... always wait until the "Game of the Year" goes on sale for a great deal), I natually felt inclined to try Cataclysm. What a mistake. The whole beautiful "space is a large, lonely place" premise has been completely manhandled with foolish commentary. The music and sound effects are trite. The ships are still huge, but a lot of the "improvements" or other enhancements seem visual or unnecessary. The fact that "Barking Dog Studios" (never heard of them) places their logo on the pause screen helps to solidfy the fact that Sierra and Relic seemingly don't want to touch this one. I'm hoping that Homeworld 2, being developed by the Relic team, is a closer match to the awesome original.
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Summary: Crime against original - in space noone can hear you cry
Review: Well, somehow they managed to make a follow-up that is not as good as the first. Please note that the people who made this sequal are NOT the people who made the original, even though Sierra handles the production. Pay attention to the negative reviews this game has received, many fans of the original feel a bit betrayed by this one. Yes, there are some tweaks that are good: waypoints for movement, you can make vessels fly around in circles, some different ships. However this game does NOT have the magnificent ambience of the original, the voice overs are sickeningly American-accented, it simply does not have anywhere near the class and atmosphere of the first. Don't get me wrong, it is a good game and if you are starving for more Homeworld then go for it, but don't expect the beauty of the original. If you do not have Homeworld, GET HOMEWORLD. It's better to enjoy the original first. You won't lose anything by playing that one first. Then play a demo of this one, and if you can stomach it, go for it. Sierra, get your act together and make some cheap original Homeworld mission packs, thanks, that would be well appreciated.
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Summary: Cataclysm Rocks
Review: I couldn't wait to get this game, once I'd seen the previews on the Homeworld/Sierra site. All of my expectations were met and I could only come up with very few criticisms. The game-play is familiar and should be easy for newcomers to RTS. This one is really the epitome of real-time strategy. The addition of waypoints that all ships can patrol is a vast improvement over Homeworld. The story-line makes sense, the graphics are just as good (truly impressive if you've never played the game), and the soundtrack is good. I like the idea of a central, "unbeatable" enemy. The only criticism I have is the same for Homeworld - no add-in missions. C'mon guys, give us more to play with. Unlike most RTS fans, I like to play alone, and once you've done it, you've done it. A must buy for any game player, and if you don't like RTS, the game will make you a convert.
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