#Homeworld remastered collection specs. update

While there are significant differences between the two classic games, for the remastered versions it appears that Gearbox have chosen update Homeworld 2 and utilise the new lighting, textures and aforementioned bells and whistles across both games. Everything is on the line, failure equals oblivion. The soundtrack is also stunning, and compliments the visual presentation and sense of desolation, wonder and urgency that permeates the narrative and gameplay. It’s impressive how Gearbox (and indeed, Relic, the developers of the original games) manage to infuse a ship with that kind of character or importance.

The Mothership is symbolic of this feeling. It effectively conveys the gravity of the situation into which the player has been thrust – the fleet is all that is left of an entire race, and their survival is in the player’s hands. The enormity of the environment contrasts with the tiny place the player occupies within it, imbuing Homeworld with an absorbing sense of atmosphere.

Yet these brief, sometimes unemotional moments of exposition, perfectly compliment the understated arrangement of the story. These are accompanied by original voiceovers that might perhaps come across as wooden by today’s standards. The narrative is elegantly progressed by the minimalist animated cut scenes that appear between missions. The actual visual detail is in some ways discreet, but it contributes to the significant sense of scale and depth that permeates the game as a whole. When playing the first few story missions of Homeworld, I was struck by the immediate sensation of the expansive isolation the game manages to effectively conjure. It was me out there, on my own, fighting the battles, seeking survival, looking for home. Instead, the player is the fleet, the fleet is the player. There aren’t any people the player might naturally gravitate towards, whose personal quests the player would typically play out. What I found interesting about Homeworld’s story is the fact that the game doesn’t really present any characters per se. Things soon go awry – a hyperspace jump reveals hostile alien forces Kharak is subsequently destroyed. A Mothership is built and a fleet is assembled. Even more intriguingly, the discovered ship provides a galactic map that points to a ‘home’ to which the Kharak endeavour to return. This discovery ushers in an age of technological evolution and the development of advanced spaceflight. Homeworld follows the story of the Kushan, inhabitants of the planet Kharak, who discover a ship buried in the sands of a desert. If that isn’t enough, the classic versions are included too.

#Homeworld remastered collection specs. series

This compendium reintroduces Relic’s original series to a contemporary audience, complete with bells and whistles in the form of freshly rendered graphics, HD support, new effects and music. As a fan of RTS games, science fiction and playing with space ships in general, I was excited to finally plug the Homeworld gap in my gaming history by taking on the Homeworld Remastered Collection.

#Homeworld remastered collection specs. Pc

My PC at the time wasn’t up to spec, and I missed out on a game that went on to become a cult classic in the RTS genre. I never had the opportunity to play the original Homeworld in 1999.