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Summary: DA BOMB
Review: THIS IS THE COOLEST GAME EVER! Nothing is better than strategy games, but this is the best of the best! I love it when you have huge squadrons of fighters fighting each other or when hugeass capital ships get into a huge battle. It just looks so cool! and the controls are simple enough to do whatever you want without much hassle and the ships are really cool in design. My only complaint is that both sides are exactly the same in strengths and weaknesses, and there never seem to be enough resources in each single player map, but the game is DA BOMB in multiplayer, and thats where it counts!
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Summary: Best Strategy Gameplay Out There
Review: Homeworld has a great mix of gameplay and graphics that redefines 3d gaming strategy. The maps are mostly huge and of course 3d. This creates long missions, making it long to even finish a skirmish. Even with it's great graphics and gameplay, Homeworld lacks a good storyline for both races. The movies in the games are poorly done. The soundtrack has some nice songs but not a lot. The songs soon get quite repetitive. Even with these tiny flaws the gameplay is what brings Homeworld up. Homeworld creates an intriguing interface with complex systems and research development. The manual even looks like an engineers manual. Homeworld is reccomended for those people who look for hardcore strategy gameplay and are willing to have a lot intelligence and patience
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Summary: Unbelievable; One of the Greatest Games ever made.
Review: This game is indescribable; it's so good it hurts. From the awesome storyline and cutscenes to the wicked 3D graphics, this game will suck you in. Oh, and whoever though of mixing Arabic music with space combat is freakin' brilliant. The resulting Islamic Hegira (the historic flight of Muhammed from Mecca) motif is just beautiful. By the way, has anyone noticed that the name of the Homeworld, Hiigara, is strikingly similar to the word Hegira? (If you've played this game already, look up "Hegira" in a college dictionary, and you'll know what I'm talking about) I think that this is a serious candidate for the greatest video game of all time; it's right up there with Tetris and Civilization II. One word of warning though; this game requires a murderously fast computer to really play well. I think a 600Mhz+ computer would be best, because if your computer is slow, the ships won't do what you tell them to do. Hiigara; it's our destiny.
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Summary: HOMEWORLD - A Visual & Aural Feast
Review: What can one say when a game sucks you in so completely that time seems to collapse in on itself and become meaningless? Homeworld is one those rare games that is so solid that it really evolves as you play it. It does this by providing the player with a rock-solid background story backed up by superior game play. I highly reccommend that players READ the manual before playing, because it gives you a tremendous amount of race history that builds up the mystique for the race that you become responsible for. Gameplay is relatively easy to master, and the learning curve is pretty flat. It takes some getting used to the 3D battle field and selecting ships to attack, and the fact that you cannot pause the action to assign targets to attack is annoying, but beyond that if you practice you will get the hang of it quickly. I say visual and aural feast because it is! The ship design is excellent, reminescent of Babylon 5 and Dream Pod 9's Mekton sourcebooks for the Jovian Chronicles RPGs. The music is both subtle and awe inspiring at the same time with its majestic and powerful choral accompaniments that tug at your emotions as sure as the importance of seeing the Mothership and her precious cargo safely to the homeworld. If you've come here to expect blood splattering on walls or pouring out windows, inconveniencing passersby with the spray, you will be disappointed. This game is not 'extreme' nor does it 'kick @ss', instead it inspires and propagates a whole host of emotions bordering on an intensity rarely seen in a game before. The story is equal to that of such epics as Starcraft & Broodwar, and Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (I know it's an FPS and not an RTS, but I'm talking about story not game type). It makes getting the Mothership home an imperative and not just a reason to see the end cut scene. Additionally, YES has performed the title track for the game, and itself is a nine minute epic, (as is most of Yes' music), that compliments the game. When a supergroup like Yes pays attention to a video game, it must be something special. HOMEWORLD is for anyone who loves science fiction and good gaming all rolled into one.
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Summary: Please don't waste your money!
Review: At first the game was great. The graphics were excellent and gameplay was fun, but after I started getting into it, it all changed. The ships would only follow my orders after nagging and begging them to do so. It was as if they were to good to fight for their colony and just decided to stay at home and eat cold pizza. I tried over and over to correct this problem. I ended up shooting several bullet holes in the CD. Basicly, the game just has to many glitches and is very poorly made. So, please do not waste your money on this game. There are much better ones out there.
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Summary: This is THE Game
Review: THis game is one of those games those games that has you just staring. The sound is excellent. The music I don't know how they did it but it makes you feel all alone and that the tasks given to MUST be complted I have never seen a game that could do that. Cheap stratgies simply don't work this is a game thaty Requres you to be good. The only problem I have is in mission 6-7 my ships have a tendecy to run into the enemy motherships. Otherwise the Ai is pretty good. In the skirmish vs cpu mode thought the enemy Ai is kinda dohty. One of the things that amzed me was the game was EASY to learn relic did a arvelous job making the 3d enviromint work many games have tried and failed horribly like pratically all the Star Trek games and Star War Rebellion. This is one game that wasn't hastilly done. The detail threshhold is amazing. The ships turrets turn and shoot form were they are supossed too which most games don't. The Bottom line is BUY THIS GAME
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Summary: Great game and also the Hardest!
Review: When I got this game, I was really excited about it. First, I started and it was fairly straight-forward after the great tutorial. When I started the single player game, I was very suprised by the tremendous and very in-depth story line. The graphics are great and the weapons and ships are huge and have very detailed structures. The only draw back, at least for me, is the game is really, really hard! I could never build enough ships and collect enough resources to beat every enemy fleet. In my first shot at it, I only got to level 5. I tried it again using the other race and I got to level 7 when I ran out of resources. Other than that, which might be just a flaw in my strategy, Homeworld is one of the best real-time sims I have ever played.
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Summary: Great Game- A must try
Review: In addition to what everyone else says...I really liked the fact that you keep your fleet from level to level, and don't have to waste time rebuilding the simple core units over and over
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Summary: The best 3D strategy game ever (the best game ever)!
Review: First I was sceptic but I changed almost immediately. It's quite hard to learn to navigate in complete 3D but when you have learned it it's easy. The best strategy game ever!
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Summary: Nicely done
Review: I had a very difficult time figuring out the controls (even with the tutorial). Once I got the controls down, I had a hard time figuring out how to effectively use the different ships. Once I got those out of the way, I had to develop an overall strategy. It took a long time, but it was worth it. The idea of a totally three dimensional battlefield sounds appealing until you start trying to monitor that battlefield, build ships, defend harvesters, repair and refuel, research new technology, and oh yea, attack and destroy your enemy who is trying to do the exact same thing. I think this is one of those games where shelling out for a strategy guide might have been a good idea. This game did for me exactly what Command and Conquer did for me in the mid-nineties. You want action, come and get it!
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