I've been stuck for games recently, was looking around, when i saw some screens of Homeworld 2, and though 'mmm'. I bought the game *years* ago, but when hunting around the bombsite of my CD cabinet (I keep everything, i think there's a copy of ultimate Doom in there somewhere), i couldn't find the friggin' CD! Does anyone know how i can get hold of the game without using torrents and paying through the nose online for it?
Homeworld 2 memories...
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it should be available from any online games retailer for a pittance, i remember getting mine again for like £5 but that was almost a year ago now
it's funny though as i just installed and played a few games of it yesterday, so much fun with all three dimensions to use
edit: it should be under the 'best seller' guise from sierra, it's their budget line i think
it's funny though as i just installed and played a few games of it yesterday, so much fun with all three dimensions to use
edit: it should be under the 'best seller' guise from sierra, it's their budget line i think
Played most of Homeworld 1. Finished Cataclysm. Got to the third mission in HW2. Failed. Failed again. Got really annoyed. Sat back, and rethought my strategy. Failed.
Went off and made a failcake, and ate it while I uninstalled tha game.
Went off and made a failcake, and ate it while I uninstalled tha game.
The first patch released for homeworld 2 reduced the difficulty of that mission. I managed to complete it before the patch but it was just a fluke - insanely hard for such a early mission. Reinstall it and patch it up (so you can get past the 3rd level without MEGA SKILLZ) because it really is worth completing.
Cataclysm was the high point of the homeworld franchise imo
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I never finished Cataclysm, but what I did see was delightfully unsettling. 
For me Homeworld 2 never really hit the mark the way the original did. It was very beautiful, with a belting soundtrack, but the story was a big let down. It was also rock-hard, and I could only fathom out a number of the missions by reading walk-thru's.
I was thinking about hitting the net and buying a copy on the cheap in order to give it another go, trouble is it is proving hard to acquire. I've been doing this recently with other games like Empire at War (which is still pants second time around
), The Sims 2, which still batters my hard drive and CIV 4, which is the business!
For me Homeworld 2 never really hit the mark the way the original did. It was very beautiful, with a belting soundtrack, but the story was a big let down. It was also rock-hard, and I could only fathom out a number of the missions by reading walk-thru's.
I was thinking about hitting the net and buying a copy on the cheap in order to give it another go, trouble is it is proving hard to acquire. I've been doing this recently with other games like Empire at War (which is still pants second time around
), The Sims 2, which still batters my hard drive and CIV 4, which is the business!
can you describe the mission its been a while and I've forgotten
was it the one where you had to rescue 6 conveys or something
I've never been one for strategy games much, but I can still remember playing (and completing) Cataclysm many years ago (late 2002 or 2003...when I should have been studying for exams), on my Celeron 633 with 192MB of RAM and GF2MX PCI 32MB graphics card. Very cool game though, and the main menu music was awesome.
You had to defend an installation, repair platform or something, from marine frigates that would board and take over it. If they got to it you had to board it yourself to recapture it. Or something. I just remember a red mist of rage
You had to defend an installation, repair platform or something, from marine frigates that would board and take over it. If they got to it you had to board it yourself to recapture it. Or something. I just remember a red mist of rage
mission three, save shipyard, continue to save ship yard from three carriers, mine resources at same time and protect them at the same time... i have no idea how i ever completed it
Uh, Relic made all the Homeworld games (apart from HW:C) and Dawn of War. Quite recently THQ secured the rights to the Homeworld name and brand, although they've not announced anything I think it likely that a new one is in the works.