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Homeworld is a real-time strategy computer game released on September 28, 1999

developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment.

It is best known for its full three-dimensional movement,

engrossing storyline and unique soundtrack.

Homeworld was succeeded by Homeworld 2 in 2003.

Plot
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Beneath the scorching sands of Kharak, the Kushan people have discovered the remains of a long-forgotten titanic spaceship.

Buried within the ancient remains, the secret of their lost homeworld.

For thousands of years, the Kushan have survived on Kharak,

corralled into the temperate geographical poles by a vast, unforgiving desert. Scarcity of arable land and natural resources has coloured Kushan history with near constant inter-clan (or Kiith) warfare and strife.

As new technologies emerged, religious and political conflict partially gave way to unified scientific exploration.


DNA sequencing of Kharak's native life revealed no genetic resemblance to the Kushan, giving rise to their

"XenoGenesis Theory" - which stated they were not native to Kharak at all.


The first space flights reinforced this idea. Small metallic debris,

the largest no bigger than a hand, were retrieved from low orbit and analyzed to be made of materials totally unknown to them. In addition to helping accelerate their space technology research,

the debris confirmed that a large advanced spacecraft had once been in orbit.

It wasn’t until an ironic twist of fate later in their history that boosted them even further along their development.

A high-powered satellite designed to scan the planetary system had malfunctioned upon deployment,

and was scanning the Great Desert around Kharak's equator instead.

It strangely found something beneath the sands: a derelict city with a massive central metallic structure.

An expedition uncovered that the central structure was the spacecraft they had found traces of before in orbit.

It carried advanced spaceflight technologies including a Hyperspace Core,

one of a few ancient machines that were the Homeworld setting's foundation for all faster-than-light technology.

More importantly however, a stone with a galactic map bearing two coordinates was found. One was recognized as Kharak.

The other bore a name so ancient it was common across all their languages and dialects: Hiigara.

"Home". The stone would become known as the Guidestone, and confirmed the XenoGenesis Theory.

Kharak's people united in building a megalithic "Mothership" that would bear 600,000 of them to their destination,

made rugged and self-sufficient in order to survive possible problems during the long trip.

It is during the Mothership's final testing phase that the single-player game begins.

Gameplay
========
Homeworld is known both for its multi-player online and single-player elements.

The player may choose to play as either the Kushan or Taiidan, both online and in the single-player campaign.

While each unit serves a particular function and represents a tradeoff in strength,

offensive power, speed, and cost, the differences between the two factions are mostly in cosmetic ship design.

Parallel ships (the "Vengeance"-class Kushan Assault Frigate versus the "Kudaark"-class Taiidani Assault Frigate)

look different but have identical armor, speed, weapons power, etc -

although tests have shown that the Kushan Assault Frigate has a tendency to survive longer due to the way its turrets give it an almost 360° firing arc.

However, each race does feature two unique units (the Kushan Cloaking Fighter and Drone Frigate versus the Taiidani Defense Fighter and Defense Field Frigate),

and equivalent ships often have different gun positioning, usually in favor of the Taiidan.

The screen is devoted entirely to maximize the field of view,

so the only toolbar is hidden and appears only when the cursor is moved to the bottom of the screen.

Orders such as moving and formations are given both from right-click menus, and hotkeys for more advanced gameplay.

The inclusion of a completely null-space 3-D fighting environment yields challenges

to the player that are not typically encountered in standard 2-D based real time strategies.

Since the area of play is generally void of significant obstacles to create "terrain" there is little emphasis

on the control of a certain choke point in order to establish defensive perimeters.

The player must instead be able to react and play within a purer environment where force movement

is the primary tactical factor.

Single-player
=============
The single-player campaign includes 16 missions, and focuses on a persistent fleet concept,

which causes all ships built during a mission to appear in the next (as long as they are not destroyed).

The ultimate goal of the single player mode is to find the Homeworld of the chosen protagonist race,

though the vantage point will remain unchanged regardless of the player's actual choice of race

(in this and subsequent Homeworld games, the Kushan, called Hiigaran in "Homeworld 2", are the canonical "heroes").




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Homeworld 2
===========

is a real-time strategy computer game sequel to Homeworld, developed by Relic Entertainment.

It takes place after the events in Homeworld and concerns Hiigara's response to a new enemy called the Vaygr.

It features enhanced graphics and audio and its gameplay takes a new direction.

Vaygr and Hiigaran ships differ significantly in design and application,

in contrast to the closely equivalent Kushan and Taiidan forces of the original game.

Homeworld 2 was released in late 2003. Relic Studios was bought by THQ, a competitor of publishers Sierra and Vivendi,

who owned the Homeworld license shortly after the release.[citation needed]

In November 2007, THQ confirmed that it had acquired the license for the Homeworld franchise.

Gameplay
========

Homeworld 2 shares the three-dimensional battlefield its predecessor introduced to the real-time strategy genre,

and retains that game's movement system.

Simply right-clicking on just about any object in space will cause the selected ships to move towards it,

while a fairly-intuitive system which binds the Z axis to the Shift key,

as in previous Homeworld and Homeworld:Cataclysm, allows complete control over navigation.

Fighting in the interstellar void where terrain, permanent settlements and navigational landmarks are scarce,

Homeworld players take a different view of tactics and strategy than do most RTS players.

Homeworld 2 features only one resource, the ubiquitous "Resource Unit," which is collected by harvester craft.

These harvesters often work far away from the Mothership,

with the result that strikes against an opponent's supply line can be devastating. Furthermore,

RUs are the currency for both ship creation and technology research,

meaning the competitors in a multiplayer match must decide carefully what to do with their limited funds.

The Mothership is capable of constructing almost every unit in the game,

from the smallest Scout fighter craft to enormous Destroyers.

Two exceptions are Shipyards which, according to in-game lore,

are built at large orbital facilities and then sent to the front lines via hyperspace,

and the Battlecruiser, which is the largest combat-worthy ship in the game and can only be built at a Shipyard.

The Mothership can also build Carriers,

which themselves can build any ship from the Fighter, Corvette and Frigate families.

The Mothership is the center of new research,

though Carriers and Shipyards can build the same on-board Research Labs to take over the duties.

The Mothership (or Flagship for the Vaygr) is the only craft that cannot be rebuilt

if destroyed in mulitiplayer matches, thus making it the symbolic heart of a player's fleet. However, even after its destruction, all of its functions can be carried out by surviving Carriers and Shipyards. Loss of the Mothership leads to an immediate game over during a single-player campaign.

The vacuum of space also creates differences in the striation of soldiers.

While a land-based RTS might feature infantry, cavalry or armor, artillery, navies and aviation,


Homeworld 2 works with starships in various size: from smallest to largest, Fighter, Corvette,

Frigate and Capital Ship. The larger the ship, the more powerful and durable it is.

Conversely,the less maneuverable it is, the longer it takes to bring it into battle.

Ships within each family are designed to accomplish certain tasks and are vulnerable to certain other ships.

For example, it is inaccurate to say that Frigates as a rule are vulnerable to Fighters;

while this is certainly true of the Hiigaran Ion Cannon Frigate,

which is basically nothing more than an engine attached to the Homeworld franchise's most powerful beam weapon,

Ion Frigates are routinely escorted into battle by Flak Frigates, which are specifically designed for anti-fighter work.

Having said that, Flak Frigates lack the firepower to defend themselves against other Frigates, requiring Ion Frigates—or,

preferably, the Hiigaran work-horse Torpedo Frigate,

which is equally effective against Corvette and Frigate ship class—for protection.

These sorts of rock-paper-scissors vulnerabilities are a significant tactical element of gameplay,

and a player who shoots well is far more likely to win than one who simply rushes in with guns blazing.

(This is exemplified in the later missions of the campaign,


in which the player may be outgunned by margins of three-to-one or higher.)

The original Homeworld allowed players to pirate enemy ships using specialized craft, a tradition carried on in the sequel.

Marine Frigates (for the Hiigarans) and Infiltrator Frigates

(for the Vaygr) maneuver close to enemy vessels and dispatch boarding parties,

which will capture the vessel after a short period of time,

displayed in a bar beneath the target's health meter;

capture can be sped up by using multiple Frigates against the same target simultaneously.

Having said that, a wise opponent (or AI) will attack the Marine or Infiltrator Frigates until they are destroyed,

which reduces or eliminates all capturing progress.

Homeworld 2 does not allow players to choose a difficulty level for its single-player campaign; instead,

it features dynamic difficulty adjustments,

in which the strength of a level's opposition is determined by how many ships, and of what type,

the player is bringing in from the previous level.

(This has led to an exploit in which players dispose of their entire fleet at the end of a level,

generally by "retiring" their ships to reduce them back into RUs,

and then enters the next level with a huge store of raw materials to use against the almost-nonexistent enemy.)

It also codifies the support caps introduced in Homeworld, and explained in Homeworld: Cataclysm,

by placing overall limits on how many Fighters, Corvettes, Frigates and Capital Ships the player may control at once.

Mission objectives in the single-player game are primarily achieved by destroying key enemy elements,

capturing particular targets, protecting certain units for a particular amount of time,

or towing an object back to the Mothership. In addition to the storyline objectives,

a significant portion of the missions require the destruction of all enemy units.

Developer(s) Relic Entertainment
Publisher(s) Sierra Entertainment
Version 1.1 (2.1.1.1 for Mac)
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release date(s) September 16, 2003
Genre(s) Real-time strategy
Mode(s) Singleplayer and multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: T
PEGI: 12+
Media CD
System requirements 1 GHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 32 MB T&L capable video card, 750 MB free hard drive space
Input methods Keyboard and mouse



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