Homeworld is and probably always will be my favorite FAVORITE IP, and my favorite RTS. maybe my favorite PC game too. Really, nothing was like it, and now 5 years later, there is still nothing to replace it. I get teary just thinking about it.

Get hold of Siege Station Mod if you still play HW2

The Homeworld series was fantastic I've used the PDS mod for years.  My laptops dont like it though (sigh).  Its funny, the game I've wanted never did come out.  Strategic: something like Galactic Civ, space combat like the HW games and ground well maybe Mech Commander.  Invade with wht you build and can transport none of this RTS bs.

Homeworld 1 and 2 are one of the few games ever made (Sins Included) that are so pretty in both graphics and art that I sometimes forget to actually play the game and just watch it.

I would say sins was the better game however, but with a lack of an actual SP story campaign, I can't do it yet.

I loved homeworld 1 cataclysm and homeworld 2. still play them actually.

I liked the diversity more hw2 than originial between the races but hw1 had the best story line (diversity was best in cat...   but i would of liked the sooban (i think that's the guys you play been a while for cat) had a larger fleet supply thing to scale more like the taidani/kushan fleet sizes even though story wise they are kind of a smaller kith.  would of enjoyed seeing that.

  Sins losses it for me cause of the lack of a campaign.   love the style of game but it just doesn't compare for me... Don't get me wrong i like multiplayer, but a good campaign not only makes me learn a faction but it lets me absorb the game for the days i don't have time for an epic game.

P.S not that this would really get looked at but a space flight simulator game, (the old wing commander style) built for homeworld and sins would be a game i would play to death.

Try Star Wars Warlords, Homeworld Complex, Point Defense Systems. These 3 are good mods for HW2. But then again they are making Warlords for Sins so ya.

Heh, HW1 back when the game manual made ya feel special. (seriously it was huge). I loved all of the hw series, i break it out now and then to play but..ehh its just not the same anymore. Maybe its that ive played them so much there is nothing new. Now a HW3..that would be very cool, but id pray to whatver god's exist they dont turn it into a console fubar'd version.

Homeworld for sins would be cool, mobile factorys/motherships to keep your fleets strong would be very cool. Real formation controls (like hw1..the X, the V, and the 360 circle..i loved that one). You would have to do some serious coding to get the radio chatter though.

The thing i miss the most is the backgrounds. I mean Sins is great, but i can tell they are bitmaps using some form of Vmap to hold everything in place. With homeworld (and HW:Cat) you formed the backgrounds from very simple points of color. Granted good ones too forever to make but they just seemed so...darn real. I believe hw:2 where you were first introduced into the projenitor(sp?) race is my fave. Just took my breath away. That and the electriclal animations of HW:cata's backgrounds. Now if sins could make animated backgrounds.. well heh, id be beyond happy.

maybe im complaining for no good reason but i loved the gun under the dreadnought in hw2 but in complex mod it has been removed!

maybe the dread was too uber with it

but i miss it and want it back

One of the things I felt that HW2 missed from the previous two games was how the gameplay affected the mood and feeling of the game. I'll give two examples.

The mission just after Karak is destroyed in HW1 is crazy. In the span of one mission, you go from fighting basic fighters and corvettes to assault frigates, ion-frigates, and a fricken carrier with a full compliment of fighters and escort ships. It creates the feeling much like the new BattleStar Galactica: you're a rag-tag fleet on the run from an enemy with a hell of a lot more stuff than you've got.

It also teaches you to never, ever send everything you have away from your Mothership. Which is a very good lesson to learn.

Cataclysm had a really great moment when you first encounter one of the Beast's assimilation ships. You send a force over to investigate, and in the span of maybe 3 seconds, all of them are assimilated and are now turned against you. It's a great combination of storyline and gameplay. In-story, your character is going, "WTF just happened? Oh crap!" But the player is doing the same thing, especially if they sent a few more ships than was asked for (as I did). Watching your fleet not merely disappear but actively turn against you when you know you don't have enough to stop them... yeah.

Recently the HW2 mod community started using updated shaders, so its still looking pretty hot today.

I wish IC would nudge the SoaSE gameplay in the direction of the Homeworld style, who is to say they cannot make a better game?

You should never skip Homeworld - if anything, you should look for that first and if necessary skip the other ones. If you do manage to grab Homeworld, download the mod that removes lodding. It's purely graphical, and a modern computer can easily handle no-lod HW.

I only ever played HW2, but I have to say that it outclassed pretty much every other RTS out there. Might have to reinstall it sometime soon: the graphics are technically dated, but still sooooo pretty. Love those little fighters zooming around and I'm always so proud when I see my tiny bombers own a battlecruiser.