Homeworld 3 was initially scheduled for a 2022 launch, which obtained pushed to 2023, after which pushed once more into 2024. All up that is a considerable delay, but it surely has provided ample time to make amends for earlier instalments, at the very least. Now’s an particularly good time to do this, as a result of the Homeworld Remastered Assortment has simply hit the Epic Video games Retailer, and to dramatically sweeten the deal it is free-to-keep for a restricted time.
The Homeworld Remastered Assortment contains spit-polished variations of the primary two Homeworld video games, along with the unique untouched variations. There’s additionally entry to the Homeworld Remastered multiplayer beta, and sure, it has crossplay with the Steam model. If you add it to your Epic Video games library earlier than August 2, you may get it free, and maintain it perpetually.
On its launch in 2015, our reviewer described Homeworld Remastered as “a worthy improve to among the finest technique video games ever”. Along with being an incredible technique sport, it is also an emotionally charged area opera with an actual sense of intergalactic existential dread about it. The aforementioned evaluate famous that the “marketing campaign stands at this time as the simplest use of the RTS as a storytelling software”.
Whereas Homeworld 3 has been in improvement for a very long time, studio Blackbird Interactive appears to be making fairly good progress. Tyler lately famous the sport’s very detailed strategy to unit barks, as an illustration, which is able to work extra like sports activities commentary than the perfunctory grunts you may need grown sick of in, say, Warcraft.
And anyway, all these delays aren’t an indication of a tumultuous improvement, so says Blackbird Interactive (although I suppose they’d say that). “This work takes time,” the studio wrote in Could, “particularly after we are elevating the bar on what gamers will expertise within the Homeworld universe.”
