Or, if you’d prefer, you can scribble a flanking maneuver to limit up-front damage. If you’re being attacked from the “west” you can draw a line straight to the threat to launch fighters at your enemies. Lines can be drawn from carrier-style ships (your command ship, fighter docks, and the like) to designate flightpaths for their attack craft. The actual gameplay controls are intuitive and ingenious. As you accumulate wealth, you can spend it on energy to warp in additional ships – bigger mining vessels, heavy artillery gunships, bomber squadrons, etc. The latter can harvest asteroids and debris for minerals the former are there to protect your dust-diggers and the command ship itself. I didn’t beat every mission yet, so I don’t know what happens, but it would probably be a huge spoiler you wouldn’t want to read anyway.Īs each mission begins, you’re granted a command ship that’s equipped with fighter craft and mining ships. As Admiral of the last human fleet (you can probably guess its name) you must make your way across the galaxy, find the alien force that wiped out mankind, and… something. So, the Earth got blow’d up and everyone died became angels now you’re humanity’s only hope.
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But aside from the minor pitfalls inherent to all F2P Android titles, Strikefleet Omega is an engaging gameplay experience that carries the spirit of Homeworld into a new medium.
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After all, I’m lining up a free mobile title with a retail game I worshipped like a god. If that all sounds bad, don’t click away just yet. There’s no multiplayer, either… just a single player campaign and a Survival challenge mode. The story has parallels to Homeworld’s (you command a mothership that’s fleeing a destroyed planet, making due with scrounged resources and tech along the way), but the tone is obviously the same kid-gloves stuff you get from most cell phone titles. Strikefleet Omega doesn’t have Homeworld’s three dimensional space, or its persistent fleet, or a particularly nuanced technology tree. And while a smaller-by-comparison mobile game like Strikefleet Omega can’t possibly compare to the tone and versatility of one of the greatest titles of all time, it’s the only one in a long time to show off what a space-based RTS can be. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t occasionally itch for another cinematic, fleet-based strategy game. In all likelihood, the original work and its two standalone sequels (Cataclysm, Homeworld 2) will have to stand as the end of the Higaaran saga. Sure, the IP rights are secured by someone, but that doesn’t mean there’s a game in the works or even on a drawing board in some shadowy, corporate meeting room. I’m not holding my breath for Homeworld 3. I suppose Sins of a Solar Empire came close, though in a soulless, mechanical sort of way.
In fact, the game was so well executed in every respect (gameplay, graphics, story, sound), it’s hard to believe nobody has tried to emulate its format. At the time of its release, Sierra’s Homeworld was deservedly considered a masterpiece of realtime strategy.
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