Your ships can move in all directions, including attacking from above or below to surprise the enemy, and several story missions in fact depend on you attacking from outside the usual plane. The game is controlled from a 3D perspective, with you giving ships orders on where to move and how to engage the enemy. Your resource gatherers mine asteroids and gas clouds for resources allowing you to build ships and research new technologies. Your Mothership is your headquarters and base (stationary in the first game, mobile in the second one), from where you build fighters, capital ships, probes and asteroid-mining craft. If you haven't played any of the Homeworld games before, an in-depth tutorial explains the basics. Not bad for a franchise not far off from entering its third decade. Pushed to the maximum and played on a 4K monitor and graphics card, it's possible that Homeworld Remastered is the most graphically jaw-dropping game currently in existence. The result is nothing short of a revelation: a game that plays identically to how it did in 1999 but with cutting-edge graphics. Homeworld has been moved into the superior Homeworld 2 engine, given a massive graphical face-lift and had its user interface revamped. This re-release combines Homeworld and Homeworld 2 into one package and significantly updates both titles. Gearbox teamed up with Blackbird to retool that game as an official Homeworld game - the excellent Deserts of Kharak - and also fully remaster the original games into a new package, fit for modern gamers. Helpfully, many of the team who made Homeworld and Homeworld 2 had left Relic to set up their own studio, Blackbird Interactive, and had begun making their own strategy game which was basically as close to Homeworld as they could get without violating copyright. By 2015 THQ had gone bust and the Homeworld IP had been bought by FPS titans Gearbox, several members of whom were massive fans of the original game. The Homeworld IP, left behind with dying publisher THQ, was forgotten about. It was followed by two successors, Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000) and Homeworld 2 (2003), but Relic was bought out by Sega and switched to making Warhammer 40,000 games (namely the popular Dawn of War series) and, later, the WWII Company of Heroes series. Featuring a remarkable 3D, real-time graphics engine and a gripping storyline, the game told the story of an entire people racing to find their way home, hounded by enemies they don't understand and accused of crimes their ancestors committed millennia earlier. The fragile hulls of your fighters, corvettes and frigates now gleam in the light of distant stars, while the hulking crescent of your Mothership always looms in the background, glittering with thousands of tiny lights.Originally released in 1999 as the debut title from Relic Entertainment, Homeworld was a video game way ahead of its time. More specifically, Homeworld Remastered's available resolutions and new textures accommodate all the way up to glorious 4K, while the added lighting and post-process effects lend a softer, sharper edge to the game's planets and spaceships. Nevertheless the overhaul is extensive enough so that Homeworld Remastered looks like a modern release. They haven't rebuilt the game in a whole new engine, for example. Gearbox don't go quite so far as Just Add Water did with Abe. As remasters go, Gearbox's effort is up there with Abe's Oddysee in terms of the work put in and the difference in final quality. Already this is a substantial chunk of game for your cash, although depending on the quality of the Remaster it could be money for old space-rope.
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