The player may continue to harvest resources after completing the main objectives or complete some or all of the optional objectives. Obviously losing a large cruiser has serious implications going forward.Ī mission ends at the player’s discretion dependent on the mandatory objectives being completed. Lost ships do not reappear in subsequent ones. What raises the stakes of the missions are combat results are persistent. The objectives are the same no matter which race the player chooses to play. There are 16 missions in the first game each with a set of required objectives that must be met.
Each side is arrayed with a different selection of ships, weapons, etc which allow for differing strategies and deployments at the micro level but when taken in totality both sides match up evenly.
A well-deserved shout to the now defunct Vancouver based studio – Relic Entertainment creators of the original games – for being able to forge such strong powerful emotional bonds for the players even before they start playing the game.Īs to the gameplay itself, one can choose between the fleeing Kushans or the raiding Taiiban Empire. It is all heady and engaging stuff because of how the voice and art work along with the wonderful orchestral score builds. Echoes of Battlestar Galactica ring strong through the storyline What follows then is a familiar tale of conflict and a game of hide and seek as the Kushan push to find their Home world. The Mothership has no choice but to flee and embarks on its journey. The first hyperspace jump proves tragic as it attracts an enemy fleet of raiders who leave Kushan lifeless. One of the few identified characters – a scientist, Karan S’jet – is integrated into the Mother Ship’s control systems and becomes known as Fleet Command. This discovery kick starts the Kushan’s because they discover the secret of interstellar travel and a galactic map revealing the way to a mythical system located at the center of the universe known as Hiigara or “Home.” United, the Kushan’s pool their resources over the next hundred years or so to build a mothership to journey to Home. A lack of resources has hampered development until the discovery of a crashed starship in one of the large desert regions. On a Dune like planet called Kharak, a race of people known as the Kushan have eked out a life in the polar regions. “Through the use of narration, voice work, and orchestral soundtrack, Homeworld circumvented the need for flashy graphics to draw the player into the story.”įor Homeworld neophytes the story is briefly as follows.
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