This game with a 32:9 monitor would be absolutely mesmerizing despite it just being more space.

Looks good

I heard there was issues with simple stuff like attack move and armor placement? That was in the beta so did they do anything about it?

The only downside to the game is art direction. The ships don't have as much variation as the original two games. The game itself is great, but they could have been more creative with ship design.

So capital ships are still made of paper like in the demo.

How long is the campaign?

does it have custom skirmish games? mother ship vs other motherships?

Could've gone into a little more depth in this review with the ship types. Fights, covers, scouts, ion fridges, drone fridges, how their defenses and offences matter or not, etc. Also could've conveyed how large the ships are even in the vastness of space, the mining astroids remove the models, the docking and undocking of ships, and more that carry over from the original first 2 games. Are they present in this? Idk, a lot has been left unsaid about this in the game review.

I loved Homeworld when it was released a long time ago. Recently I wanted to replay the remastered versions but was kind of bummed how frustrating the control scheme was. Great to hear that 25 years later that has been improved.

Kinda ironic how you framed this review and Homeworld 3 being the exact disaster you were describing. The fans hate it, it has abysmal Steam reviews and the sales have been negligible. It's essentially killed the Homeworld franchise and dashed any hope of more entries. There are so few players it would be a stretch to expect them to even support it for the promised first year pass...

I wish this came to playstation

Stellar 😅

With a title like "Homeworld 3 Review" Its a shame you didn't actually review the WHOLE game.

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`Stellar` is definitely NOT the word I'd use to describe `The Amanda Show` like story.... Poor Review anyway, you missed reviewing half the game. 🤷‍♂

It seems you did not review the whole game, just the campaign. I expected a mention of the skirmish and multiplayer, how they function, what other game modes there are if any. In this way, the review feels lacking.

This is a 10 hour game at 70 bucks. How are people not talking about this

The way combat plays out in terms of distance, movement, how fighters maneuver, how projectiles are shown and displayed, etc is in my opinion really boring compared to HW1. Even the remaster didn't do it justice because it was remade in the HW2 engine. Something just feels so mobile-like about the gameplay, instead of epic fights in space. They made sure the background objects give you a sense of scale, and then use that scale to appreciate the ships themselves but then how the fights of the ships play out is in knife range and even larger ships seem like just another fighter craft to not care about. It's like you get the impression you're in the Atlantic/Pacific Ocean for a battle (analogy) but the actual combat happens in a backyard pool. It's very compressed. It totally takes away from the scale scope of the map and how you would think a fight would happen. It almost makes the aspect of fighting in space pointless. Plus HW1 made you care about each craft to some degree but here it's just feels cheap and throwaways. Get a few pretty flashes of color for the dopamine hit. There's no real impact to the fights like HW1 felt or even Cataclysm. Once people get past the "pretty" veneer, there's nothing special or impactful about this game from everything I've seen so far. Glad I didn't pre-order. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way because it seems reviewers think it's great.

Giving this game a 8.5 is just puzzling. The problem with games like this is that they are sequels an as such raise certain expectations with players, whilst most of the reviewers that will review the game weren't even born when the first game came out, so there is a disconnect. You said the story is forgettable, but that is a big step down from the previous games. Before we had a more militaristic approach to an civilization ending catastrophe and now a bad guy with some beef... The gameplay is unresponsive and stripped down, for example you are now unable to target subsystems on ships. So no, it's not a good revival of the series, the story is a step back, the gameplay is a step back and when you say in the review that the best thing in the game is the emptiness of space with it's ambience in a "game", we have a serious problem.

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I got it played the game for 4 hours.. and I got my money back from Steam.. Gaming is dead.. they don't make good games anymore.

its so sad how little new ideas this game has on the formula... exatly like age 4 and company of heroes 3.... there is nothing new to these games

that gate system looks so aweful , like its literally trash ! who designs something as trash as that , there is literally no design mechanism to look pretty ...