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As if next February wasn't exciting enough with Evolve set for release in its early days, the remastered version of one of the PC's most legendary space strategy titles, Homeworld, is set to hit digital shelves courtesy of Gearbox, which has been working on the visually improved remastered version for some time now. To show off just how its progressing, at PAX Australia Gearbox revealed a cinematic, some HD screenshots and talked about some new features like improved lighting and depth of field. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EQH6XqLbM']
Released back in 1999 by Dawn of War creators, Relic Games, Homeworld found itself without a ‘home' when THQ went under last year. However Gearbox picked it up and has been working on a remastered version, which it's hoping will become the definitive edition of Homeworld. This means improving its visuals in line with more modern games and re-doing the cut scenes using original artwork as a base.
That's real time lighting, depth of field effects and motion blur at work
Fans of the series shouldn't be worried about another developer tinkering with the game however, as Gearbox has some of the original programmers and producers working on the remastering, so it should be very faithful indeed.
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KitGuru Says: I'm a bit ashamed to admit I never played the original Homeworld or its sequel. It's on the to-play list though guys, don't hate me. I'm waiting for this version.
Personally I hope this leads to a remastering of Cataclysm. Imo it had a more compelling storyline and some improved mechanics over the original.
Still very happy to see this and look forward to its success and the announcement of HW3
Completely agree with you! Cataclysm was a much more compelling storyline but what I would really like was to see them together, instead of seperate events in the same universe. I would like to see the events being connected somehow, all in one glorious game. But one can only dream…
not sure how you would work that as it happened a number of years after the Kushan returned to Hiigara. To take it and make it part of the original story really detracts from the fact that it was this small lesser mining Kith that defeated this monstrous threat in comparison to the combined might of a restored Hiigaran people or even one of the Warrior Kith like the Nabal.
Make it one huge game pack sure but dont mess with the story.
Haven’t played this in years so I’m not fully aware of the timeline. But even so, I would like to see a more solid connection between the two games (but not messing with the storyline would be crucial) what I mean is something like maybe some hints from one game in the other one or vice-versa, but nothing that would affect the existing story. Also, I actually played Cataclysm first back then and that made it have a even bigger impact at the time and only got to play Homeworld a couple of years later I believe.
I just have to wonder why on earth this is taking so long, The new stuff had better be worth it taking close to a year and a half to finish.
I just have to wonder why on earth this is taking so long, The new stuff had better be worth it taking close to a year and a half to finish.
the code for Cataclysm was lost and it wasn’t made by Relic so sadly no Cataclysm 🙁