Homeworld 3 is everything I hoped it could be. It improves on its predecessors in every conceivable way, and adds meaningful new features including a cooperative War Games mode. I never thought it would happen again, but I’m happy to report…the mothership has cleared the scaffold...we are away once again.
Homeworld 3 marks a successful return to a long-revered series. Bringing back the successful space strategy series, but improving the combat by a large amount with a more tactical approach, Blackbird Interactive has successfully made their mark. With exceptional tactical combat, made all the more important by the fact that everything carries over, and one bad mistake could cripple you much further down the line. The additional War Games mode only enhances this, making for a very engaging title.
I wanted to play through the whole game before I wrote a review. I can say this was a home run from BBI, my real score would actually be a 9/10 but with these reactionary zealots putting down a 0 for no good reason I wanted to see if I could counter it a bit.
Ships feel powerful, missions are varied, story is good visuals are amazing. I do wish you could go to hyperspace on your own terms and that the game slowed down a bit but over all this was a real treat to play.
While not as trailblazing as its predecessors, Homeworld 3 is still a well-made and worthwhile sci-fi real-time strategy with a solid story and exceptional production values.
Homeworld 3 offers the experience of handling a full fleet with aplomb through tactical gameplay options that live up to and build on the systems of its predecessors. With gorgeous atmosphere and crisp audio design, it's a game that asks big questions of its new cast of characters with some solid writing. Not every narrative decision lands, but Homeworld 3 stands on its own feet as a worthy new entry in the long-running franchise.
The modernization of the series has yielded amazing benefits that make it feel like the definitive Homeworld experience unless you are looking to go back and experience the whole story for yourself. It isn't easy to make a sequel worth a decades-long wait, but Blackbird Interactive has managed to pull off just that.
A flawed sequel, that undermines some of the original games’ greatest pleasures, but this is still a uniquely enjoyable real-time strategy, with plenty of interesting new ideas.
Homeworld 3 did keep me engaged for a time thanks to gorgeous visuals and exciting tactical combat in the vastness of space. Performance-wise, I didn’t notice too many hiccups. With an Nvidia RTX 3080, Intel i9-10900K, and 32GB of RAM, I was able to select high graphical settings without a hitch. Unfortunately, the campaign’s story is a huge step down from previous installments. Missions, whether in the campaign or in multiplayer modes, are plagued by innumerable issues related to unit pathing, controls, and commands. It’s a disappointment that was 20 years in the making.
I tried Homeworld 3, my IQ rose by 50 points from the dialogue, I gained 30 pounds of muscle mass from the intense gameplay, Homeworld 3 changed my life.
Contrary to what Gearbox thinks, this game has a huge fanbase that's over 35. And since most of are not as delusional as the current generation, if you tailor the game around modern culture and disrespect the legacy, you will fall short of the high standard set by the older games. Another case study on how to anger your fanbase and destroy a beloved franchise.
"Involved with The Centre for Digital Media and Diversity in Games." - mentioned in the ending credits. Why am I not surprised? Why isn't there The John Carmack Centre for Top-Level Performance Optimization, or The International Solid Strategy Gameplay Foundation, or The Global Centre for Quality Scriptwriting and Good Taste, or The Preservation of Videogame Franchise Legacy Organization, or The Anti-Denuvofication League? I guess we don't need those today, all we need is to keep letting the "effective" managers run everything, keep hiring more "diverse" staff, keep ensuring the "proper" political standards in the product. It just works, right?
SummaryTactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.