Recent reviews by Caedo

I don't really leave reviews for games but being a huge fan of the Homeworld series, i felt i had to give my 2cents and disappointment.
People will say all these negative reviews is because of homeworld 3 was over hyped or the nostalgia people had over the older games, i can tell you that's not the case, I got out my external hard drive and played the original homeworld 1, Cataclysm and homeworld 2 again about a month ago, deserts of kharak i have on steam and gog, so i can genuinely say, homeworld 3 is the weakest of the series in terms of game play, story and bugs, not major bugs but considering the length of development, you can see BBI did not play test the game what so ever.

Now it is not a complete disaster, there are SOME positives;
The graphics are fantastic, the ship designs are great, the special effects, the maps and all the little details, it is a really nice looking game,
Sound effects and music are perfect, really enjoyable, the explosions and weapon effects are pretty well done.

Now the bread and butter of the review, the NEGATIVES; this will take awhile but i will try to be brief; (Spoilers ahead)
Campaign/Story
Easily the weakest of the series, the stories of the other 4 games fit well in the lore, they are paced fairly well and are memorable and significant to the universe.
Homeworld 3? the subtle woke agenda has seeped in with a young woman with the face of a boy on a heart warming coming of age story of self doubt, anxiety and over coming any obstacle to be the best girl boss she can be!
Karen has gone missing and there are anomalies happening with the hyperspace gates, so you are on a journey to find out whats going on and if you find her on the way, great.
On your journey you fight a 2 dollar store Turanic Raiders and a race that is fanatically loyal to their queen, an angry African looking woman who just wants to rule everythiing and some how assimilated progenitor tech under everyones noses. You end up finding Karen and the mothership and in a big climatic battle and very PG rated ending where Karen chooses to die along side the evil queen in a pseudo Thelma and Louise ending where they find some sort of inner peace together lol.
There is little to no explanation as to where the Incarnates came from or how they were able to master the progenitor tech despite the Bentusi and Hiigarans failed to do so. The campaign is surprisingly short, most missions are quite short and pale imitations to missions found in the previous games! out of the 10 hours it took to finish, at least an hour filled with sub par cut scenes, endless dialogue that took away from the militaristic journey of a race at war and now feels like a poorly made soap opera.
The woke doesn't end there though, of the 4 main characters only one is male! and true to the woke ideology, no white males are present in the series, the only three other men you see is one of African descent, the intel office who is the only realistic character of the 4, one of Asian descent a Hiigaran admiral you see for about a minute and another African male who is leader of the pirates, not a big issue despite the Hiigarans were white in the previous games so hooray for diversity?

Skirmish/War Games
Skirmish was the most enjoyable game mode for me in the previous titles however in this, there is only 6 maps, they are very small and with the megaliths ALWAYS present in every map, space combat has become extremely cluttered and hard to navigate, A.I in skirmish just rushes with blobs of mixed units over and over again and if you travel about 5 or 10 km forward, you are almost in viewing range of the enemy mothership. Hopefully they will make larger maps, less cluttered and improve the A.i in skirmish modes.
War Games is a co op game mode where you play with a preset unit selection and a carrier with limited build options, so its ideal for the 3 people to compliment each other with presets that combined work as a versatile fleet, now while the idea of the mode is great, the problem is you have an endless spawning enemy forcing you to rush through it instead of being strategic, careful and planned together, maps that are more vertical then horizontal which is a bizarre because nearly every monitor being widescreen these days lol. One of the maps is poorly optimised too where it lags the entire way through, hopefully they will work on that too.

Game play/Mechanics
This is the most important part of the homeworld games and extremely disappointing in this case. I will list the issues in point form;
Formations are back and are great! however ships fail to stay in formation regardless of stance.
Ship variety is the smallest out of every game and the way ships function is incredibly stupid, frigates move as fast as corvettes now and corvettes are almost non existent.
Ship dps (Damage) is very unbalanced, Battlecrusiers and destroyers while being tough do so little damage!
Ships at times do not follow orders and you have to re order them to do things, sometimes they just randomly stop what they are doing and sit there when they were ordered to guard something.
The research tree is small and embedded into the build menu which simplifies the game even more then it already is.
Hiigarans resource controllers are the collectors and salvage corvettes built into one, simplifying the game even more.
The special action abilities of each ship in most cases are useless, only 3 i found to be useful. They are more for spamming every minute or so instead of using them tactically.
The Motherships launch ability (retain fighters and corvettes) also prevents frigates and destroyers from coming out lol the mothership can hold 8 destroyers and 30 frigates inside it self!!!
Hypsace is gone along with cloaking, hyperspace inhibition and advanced sensors!!
No subsystems to target which was a questionable idea in homeworld 2 originally but allowed for more strategic game play.

There are many more problems with the game but i feel like i have been ranting for awhile so i will leave it there. I will update this as the game improves, receives updates and gains more content, but as for now i can wholeheartedly say that this game is a huge disappointment, not worth the asking price and honestly shouldn't hold the homeworld name.
Thanks for reading! i hope it helps you in deciding whether or not to purchase this... game.