![]() ![]() ![]() Playing through the second and third levels of the game, we were working through some of the early build up of gameplay and mechanics, tutorialising how to engage with strategy gaming in fully 3D space. So we have to think of inventive ways of getting to that power escalation that RTS’ always have.” “Especially coming up with the story, we’re trying to think of how to be fresh, but it’s also a video game and you can’t have everything at the beginning. “There’s a certain tone with Homeworld in general and we want to stay within that,” explained Game Director Lance Mueller. Of course, that means bringing core fleet functions out of cold storage, building up your strength on the go and jumping from one conflict flashpoint to another. Karan led a fleet through to search for answers, but never returned, so now it’s up to Imogen S’Jet to take up the mantle and lead a new fleet to find her and stave off this threat. It’s been 100 years since the end of Homeworld 2 saw Karan S’Jet unlock a hyperspace gate network that has led to a golden age of prosperity, but now an anomaly is spreading, taking gates and planets off the grid. The game’s story kicks off with a familiar sense of crisis, just as the first two numbered games did. There’s tiny details, like the Mothership’s defensive gun batteries being on rails and moving up and down its hull while tracking and firing at fast-moving fighters. Play on a high-end PC, turn on ray-tracing and zoom in and out for a closer view of the action, and you can just bask in the glorious amount of detail and small touches that Blackbird Interactive is able to lavish on the game. While Homeworld 3 isn’t pioneering in 3D graphics in the same way and is built on the reliable foundations of Unreal Engine, it can use modern gaming PC hardware to really push the graphical fidelity through the roof. By modern standard, Homeworld and Homeworld 2 are bound to look fairly rudimentary, the ships made of a limited number of polygons and low-resolution textures, the lighting systems rather basic, but admittedly with an engaging and evocative style despite this. Homeworld 3 is the kind of game that feels exactly like you remember the originals being like, but is in truth having to go miles and miles beyond what those 20-year-old games were like in order to match the rose-tinted memories you have of them. ![]()
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