Homeworld Remastered is shaping up to be great

The beginning Homeworld which came out in 1999 did not historic period that well, today it has extremely outdated graphics and is quite bothersome to get running on mod hardware. Homeworld two which came out in 2003 on the other manus aged a tad ameliorate. It still had its issues on modern hardware, just information technology was playable and enjoyable, as well as having an extensive modding customs. But now xvi years subsequently the starting time Homeworld, we finally have a HD Remaster with both updated graphics & sound as well as gameplay.

Same old Homeworld, merely in a new low-cal

So what has been inverse in Homeworld Remastered? Well, for starters there'south the visual overhaul which makes information technology expect better than the older games, and in fact makes it look pretty freaking keen by electric current standards. The Ui has gotten updated as well as revamped a scrap so that information technology looks and handles better than the Ui from a game that's from the turn of the century, likewise equally the fact that it can at present actually calibration properly with the screen resolution all the fashion up to 4K, whereas before if you were using dirty tricks/mods to become a college screen resolution, the Ui would be pretty small on the screen since it lacked scaling.

Homeworld Remastered will feature the following:

Both campaigns from Homeworld 1&2
The audio and "cinematics" are updated and remastered.
The archetype games
Which until now has never been available digitally
Totally Re-written networking code for multiplayer
Since the online service Gamespy hasn't been around for a couple of years
Races from both games are playable in multiplayer
Homeworld 1 had 2 Races, and Homeworld two had 2 other Races playable
viii Thespian multiplayer matches
This makes a return from the first game
New multiplayer game-modes
New modernistic tools and consummate steamworkshop integration

The large question is if this is something more than just a greenbacks-grab, and so far it looks like it'due south going to be a proper remaster that they have spent time and money on, around 1.3 Million $ on merely buying the license to be precise. They really accept a couple of devs from the original team working on Homeworld Remastered. The same devs who were in fact working on sort of prequel that was "kinda" set in the Homeworld Universe 'Hardware: Shipbreakers' (now an official prequel with the name Homeworld: Shipbreakers) earlier Gearbox approached their studio 'Blackbird Interactive' virtually the newly acquired Homeworld license. The Fine art director on the original Homeworld, Rob Cunningham, atomic number 82 artist, Aaron Kambeitz, original audio composer Paul Ruskay and coder Luke Moloney are working on the Remastered edition.

I played a lot of Homeworld 2 every bit a teenager, and I loved every 2d of it. I remember I even take my retail disc in one of my "old games don't throw out" boxes in the basement. However I could never go my friends into it so we could play multiplayer though, which should not be every bit much of an consequence nowadays I promise.

Every bit for Homeworld 1, since it's really bad-mannered to get running on modern hardware, well I've actually never played it (shame on me), I've completed the Homeworld 2 entrada countless of times, but never the original Homeworld campaign. Now I'll finally get the chance to actually play the beginning game's entrada. All in all Homeworld Remastered is looking amazing so far, and I'm hoping that its coin well spent, if not, well shame on me for being a sucker and pre-ordering.

Homeworld Remastered Drove is out on Feb 25th and yous can purchase it over at Steam. Oh and before I forget, Brian Martel, chief creative officer for Gearbox told Eurogamer in an interview a while back:

"If there's an involvement in Homeworld three and people want to see what happens subsequently Homeworld 2 we would love to make that game!, And I know that all the original squad members who are involved correct at present between Remastered and Shipbreakers would love to see that kind of thing happen."

I'd dearest it if we got to encounter a Homeworld iii, as long every bit Gearbox did the smart thing and let the old team handle everything once more, and not try to "modernize" it as well much. Until and so we will probably see a bunch of great mods come out though, since Homeworld 2 had such an enormous modding community for its time. For now I'll leave you with this lovely video.