The remasters are prettier, but they mess with camera control and perspective, which we feel is detrimental to overall narrative delivery. If you ever wondered where Battlestar Galactica got the idea to combine space opera and dogfights with tribal sounding percussive music, then the answer probably lies with Paul Ruskay's score.įor first time players, we strongly recommend skipping the remastered version if it is at all possible to get the original 1999 release running on modern machines. A player's fleet carries over from mission to mission, and the experience as a whole is notoriously unforgiving in terms of difficulty.Ĭommanding groups of capital ships and frigates into battle with swarms of corvettes and fighter craft blazing around on escort duty while ion cannon beams and projectiles fly in all directions on a stylised and colourful galactic backdrop is as jaw-dropping today as it was close to 20 years ago. The campaign has players leading the last remnants of an exiled civilisation clinging to survival aboard an exotic looking mothership back to their ancestral home through a truly epic series of space battles.

One of the rare truly 3D strategy titles, as opposed to the usual 2.5D in the form of cliffs or elevations simply providing bonuses to units, Homeworld also boasts one of the best stories in video games as a whole.

Relic Entertainment's first game is in many ways a monolithic presence in the modern RTS landscape.

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