Homeworld: Game of the Year Edition

Product Description:

This product includes a CD of the award-winning real-time strategy game: Homeworld. It also includes a bonus CD of the soundtrack. it does not include any strategy guide.

Condition:

This product is in very good overall condition. All discs are inspected and meet our stringent quality standard.

Game Description: 

Homeworld is a real-time strategy game set in deep space, played in a truly 3D environment. Fleets of individual ships can be sent to explore, harvest resources, and engage enemies in all directions -- up or down, backward or forward, and to either side. An innovative camera system that focuses on objects instead of places offers easy control over the perspective, allowing the player to follow these units that move freely in open space. Like the main play view, a cube-shaped mini-map can be zoomed in or out and rotated on all three axes, to let the player view the vast, surrounding area from any angle.

The Mothership -- an enormous structure representing the combined efforts of a planet's entire population over many years -- serves as the base of operations. Here, resources are processed, technologies are researched, and new ships are built to serve a variety of purposes. While the action in Homeworld plays out in real time, the game can be paused when the player sets research goals or places build orders. Fleets and individual units can be given orders while the single-player game is paused as well, permitting the orchestration of elaborate, effective tactical maneuvers.

The main storyline of Homeworld's single-player game follows the Kushan, a doomed race living on an unforgiving planet called Kharak. In the ancient ruins of the planet's earliest city, scientists discover a piece of an amazing relic, which hints at the Kushan's forgotten history. Though much is learned from this discovery, including the technology required for interstellar travel, much of the past and future remain unknown.

Homeworld was named 1999's Game of the Year by PC Gamer and Strategy Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World, GameSpy, and CNET GameCenter. The game also earned a Best Music of 1999 distinction from GameSpot. 

  Review:

Homeworld took the world by storm. It offered an intense mixture of relentless tactical action and a thrilling storyline. With the addition of some amazing graphics and an award winning soundtrack, Homeworld was destined to find a great deal of success. In fact, it ended up shocking the entire industry, picking up a load of accolades and praises from the major publications. A number of magazines named Homeworld the best PC effort of 1999. As a result, Sierra has released a special "Game of the Year" edition to pay homage to its success.

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