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Have You Played… Homeworld?Can I get a lift?
Can I get a lift?
Image credit:Sierra Studios, Gearbox Publishing
Image credit:Sierra Studios, Gearbox Publishing
Let’s not muck about here.Homeworldis essentially justBattlestar Galactica, if it were a real-time strategy game that jumped through a hyperspace gate exclusively onto PC. There’s still much more to Relic Entertainment’s sci-fi take on the plot of exiles returning home, though. When Homeworld’s Kushan civilisation set out on their journey to the lost planet of Hiigara in the space-year of 1999, the game was doing something very unique compared with most other RTS games on the market.
Image credit:Gearbox Publishing
If you’ll bear with me, I don’t want to forget about one thing Homeworld did that still stands out more than two decades on from when I first got my sweaty teenage mitts on the game: its manual. Relic just poured effort and imagination into Homeworld’s manual, which you can find onlinehere. I read the thing as though it was a textbook on Kushan culture and history, which it sort of was. I’m not sure I’ll ever encounter anything like that again now, but I’ll always treasure my more than slightly foxed copy. Homeworld was remastered in 2015 along with its sequel, and you can find that version onSteamandGOG.
