Ships span the gamut from tiny fighters and scouts up to destroyers and aircraft carriers and they have realistic roles in the rock-paper-scissors of battle. Battles could encompass something like 200 ships, and was fast enough to be exciting while at the same time slow enough to allow for some strategic adjustment along the way. You could zoom in on any single space ship nearly close enough to see the rivets in the hull, and pull back until gigantic capital ships were reduced to a single pixel. It was AFAIK the first RTS to feature a fully 3-D space map, and the maps were huge. In general I’m not a big fan of revamping old games and re-releasing them with a little jazzed up graphics like it’s a whole new game, but back in 1999, Homeworld was so far ahead of its time that even by today’s standards it is still a better than average game. That really small number includes Homeworld without a doubt. More interestingly, the number of games in that list that I still think of fondly, that I still reminisce about as a great game even after all these years, that’s a really small number. Anyhoo, as you can probably guess, out of those 450 or more games, many of them are not particularly memorable – probably most. If instead of playing all those games I had focused on something constructive like curing cancer, I’d probably have that sucker licked by now. Wow, I’m kind of queasy just thinking about it.

So, and here’s the kicker, since the original Homeworld came out in 1999 (and I’ve been writing reviews for nearly that entire time), I’ve played something in the neighborhood of 450 games.

That would be 26 games a year, plus I play some games for myself that I’m not reviewing – call it an even 30. How many, you might ask? Just to throw some numbers at it, let’s say I review a game every other week, which is probably a fair guess. That’s probably not a surprise to any of you, but stick with me for a moment because I’m going somewhere with this, and like many of my insights, it’s brilliant. Single player missions a mixed bag.Īs a game reviewer, I play a lot of videogames. The Good: Space looks amazing! Gameplay holds up great after all these years.

Homeworld remastered collection