# Homeworld: Remastered
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052 "2015-01-27T21:21:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/1 "2015-01-27T21:21:14Z")
Releasing on Feb. 25
[http://www.homeworldremastered.com/](http://www.homeworldremastered.com/)
Can’t wait for this. I loved the original and managed to get it running again a few years ago. The gameplay still holds up and the visuals, sound and storytelling are top notch.
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### Author:  [@FieryXBow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FieryXBow)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/2 "2015-01-28T01:09:13Z")
Very excited for this as well. Hope it does well enough for them to focus on another sequel.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/3 "2015-01-28T03:16:03Z")
Or at least a remastered _Homeworld: Cataclysm_.
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/4 "2015-01-28T03:52:17Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> Or at least a remastered _Homeworld: Cataclysm_.
That may be up to the modding community, after a little research it appears that the original source-code has been lost.
Be interesting to see how the sales of this, push along the prequel (Shipbreakers).
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/5 "2015-01-28T04:00:20Z")
_Homeworld_ was certainly one of the prettiest games of that era. Both visuals and audio were top notch. That moment when _Agnus Dei_ starts to play ranks as one of the all time best gaming moments for me.
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### Author:  [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/6 "2015-01-28T08:41:46Z")
I have this fantasy that they remake Homeland for the Xbox One Kinect.
maybe with gloves and the Oculus Rift…
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### Author:  [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/7 "2015-01-28T08:52:52Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#):
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> _Homeworld_ was certainly one of the prettiest games of that era. Both visuals and audio were top notch. That moment when _Agnus Dei_ starts to play ranks as one of the all time best gaming moments for me.
I remember it being beautiful, but with sadly crappy game play. IIRC, you could basically ignore everything, build a few of the higher level ships and then send them over to nuke the enemies base ship. Was the sequel any better?
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### Author:  [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/8 "2015-01-28T22:14:31Z")
Did they add difficulty levels, or otherwise change the scaling so as not to activley punish you for doing well in the previous mission.
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### Author:  [@Anon01245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon01245)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/9 "2015-02-02T21:14:56Z")
I am interested in getting this. I loved the soundtrack and haven’t played the game. But watching some of the clips on youtube that I can find I think I am going to enjoy this game.
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### Author:  [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/10 "2015-02-25T23:14:19Z")
> [@Anon01245](#):
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> I am interested in getting this. I loved the soundtrack and haven’t played the game. But watching some of the clips on youtube that I can find I think I am going to enjoy this game.
On the upside the sound was re-mastered too and it sounds great.
On the downside some of the soundtrack is different. In particular:
> [@](#):
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> - Those who know that I’ve been reviewing this game have asked me one question over all others: does prog-rock tunesmith’s Yes’ _The Ladder_ remain in the game? Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, the song has been cut…
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> SOURCE: ['Homeworld: Remastered' is beautiful, but it's not the sequel you want](http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/24/homeworld-remastered-review/)
Despite that I am loving it. I missed this game a lot. It has made a very welcome return. Anyone who enjoys the RTS genre should play this game.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeworld-remastered/711052/11 "2015-02-26T13:36:03Z")
One of the early reviews said that the goal of this remaster wasn’t to make the game look **new** , but rather to make it look the way you remember it looking when you first played it way back in the day. I think they knocked it out of the park. It looks just like I remember in my mind’s eye. Gorgeous and chunky and epic and expansive.
Didn’t have time to really dig into it last night, but I got enough of a taste to know that this will be occupying me for a good while.