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There’s much that Homeworld does which subsequent and contemporary strategy games do not, and it remains an expert lesson in how to make an RTS feel so much bigger than its individual levels. A 1999 face is much trickier to scrub up than 1999 metal is.įar from the only reason, though. That it lets its spaceships take centre stage is a huge part of why it’s stood the test of time.

That’s needed, because while Homeworld’s a game about saving people, it usually avoids showing people. They’re colourful too, borrowing respectfully from Chris Foss rather than Star Wars, and this with their unusual shapes (broadly avoiding any jet or shuttle inspiration) take on true character. Resolution and anti-aliasing (plus assorted less obvious shader tricks) mean these looming industrial shapes, these man-made visitors to a vast and empty space, look that much more 3D and tangible, that much less like simple game models. The new textures help, though even then some still look blown up and blocky when you get in close, but it’s the crispness that the Remastering most benefits from. I know it can be ugly to bust out hyperbole in a game review, but I’m extremely tempted to say that Homeworld was and is a masterpiece of visual design. It’s a universe away from the squat, constrained worlds of almost any other real-time strategy game. Small fighters are insects, the mothership is this enormous obelisk, the stellar backdrop is palpably infinite-feeling, and the camera zooms all the way in and out to show how all these things compare to each other.Ĭombine this with a celestial score (plus, of course, the rightfully iconic, still-powerful usage of Adagio for Strings at the start of Homeworld 1) )and starkly industrial sound effects and you’ve got space. Light, shadow, texture and high resolutions are part of it, of course, but they wouldn’t mean much without scale. But in terms of strategy games which really, truly benefit from remastering – well, this is a chart-topper. In terms of strategy games which ‘need’ remastering, Homeworld was probably somewhere at the bottom of the list. Hard angles, painted metal, no faces – these were things even aged graphics cards could handle well.

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Homeworld was always pretty, to the point that (with some help from mods and tweaks) it’s staved off the ravages of technological age far more naturally than many other games of that era have.

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These are questions I ask about my reflection in the mirror every day, but turns out they’re also the biggies to pose at this semi-remade version of cult classic space strategy series Homeworld.

I should also note that I’m discussing this as an overall package rather than comparing the two games within it to each other. I’m sure other places and even our own comments section will provide that stuff, but this piece is essentially looking at whether the Homeworld games, newly remastered by Gearbox, still hold up today. Disclaimer: I played Relic's space strategy game Homeworld when it first released (because of course I did), but unlike many of its fans I didn’t continue to live and breathe it, so I am simply not your guy to get into the fine detail of how the new version does or doesn’t differ from the original.