After 19 years, Homeworld 3 will arrive in 2022 to continue the sci-fi strategy series about leading a fleet of spaceships. A new “gameplay” trailer popped up today during today’s Game Awards pre-show, and yes: the starships still leave nice engine trails behind them altogether. The trailer also gives brief glimpses of the space battles raging through the ruins of derelict megastructures. See for yourself below.
I especially like the different animations for small ships deploying from larger ships.
Blackbird said: “Homeworld 3 is the realization of the vision we set out to create in the Homeworld franchise, with state-of-the-art technology allowing us to transcend our wildest dreams of air combat large-scale animation with emotional sci-fi storytelling” Interactive CEO Rob Cunningham, who served as the art director of Homeworld 1 and 2.
As before, Homeworld 3 is a real-time strategy game about leading a fleet of spaceships persistently through missions, carrying the scars (and absences) of past battles. past. Along with the campaign, it will offer competitive multiplayer modes and co-op modes “with a human-like twist”.
The game is set a generation after the original two, created by Relic Entertainment. Some of Relic’s former folks founded the Homeworld 3 Blackbird studio, who also made the 2016 planetarium prequel, Deserts Of Kharak (and the excellent, though unrelated, spaceship dismantling sim, Hardspace. : Shipbreaker). But today, the series is owned by Gearbox, who bought it from the ruins of THQ.
Homeworld 3 is scheduled to launch at the end of 2022, which is from October onwards. It will be above Sauna and Epic game store.
We have long called Homeworld one of the space gameand Alec Meer (RPS in Peace) would love to revisit the two originals for Review of the Homeworld Remastered collection.
“I’m not sure the Homeworld games were first built with the expectation that this game would stand the test of time like this,” said Alec, “but because it took a lot of work, since word There’s been no game like them to date, and because the rebuilding process is sensitive, this pack has the timeless beauty and essentials of real-time strategy.
In fact, although I talked about Homeworld as if it were all Relic, the first game had a standalone expansion by Barking Dog Studios (who later joined Rockstar and made Bully). In 2019, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell told us about its hidden horror potential.
We’re staying up late covering the upcoming PC game from tonight’s lavish marketing: our hit Game Award tag everything.
