Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

Fun gameplay, compelling story, and lastly this game has such a high quality of production (audio engineering gets a special hat-tip) it rivals the big boys. High praise to their teams.

point positif: ressemble à Command and Conquer point négatif: manque cruellement de cartes/MAPS

Short but fun campaign.

For 5 dollars it's okay, but i don't really enjoy the little i've played so far. I was a big fan of command and conquer years ago so i decided to give it a shot, but i didn't really like what i saw. The campaign story seems like it's actually pretty good, so if you just want to play on easy and enjoy the story for 5 bucks you might like it but the gameplay in my opinion leaves a lot to be desired. You have to constantly micro-manage everything, which is more of a Starcraft thing but the resource management is just so boring and the unit hitboxes are so large that it's quite annoying to do so. I personally would rather focus on combat and resource management than fighting to select the right unit between the 15 blobs on the screen. But if i had paid the full 40 or however much it normally listed for, i'd be pissed.

no option to manage gamespeed + making it an oddyssee to change keys + epiccrap = thumbsdown

The controls are really bad. You can't just quickly select all vehicles of a certain type. You can assign hotkeys to certain vehicles, but it's awkward when they're all mixed together. And when you build new vehicles those won't be assigned to the hotkeys, so it's so difficult to quickly choose the right vehicles in a battle. and it's imperative that you do because the game has a rock-paper-scissors setup where attacking with the wrong vehicles will get yours destroyed. The game also relies on infinite enemies which I hate with such a passion. As you're f*&cking around trying to get hot keys sorted and other things you need to manage, you're just being pestered by waves of enemies. The story is a nothing burger too, but that's obviously not why anyone plays a strategy game. And its price of $70 AUD is ridiculous. The game is nearly a decade old and, even if you did enjoy the game, its campaign is short anyway. Definitely not worth that price.

how to enjoy - ignore the store page go to guides roll game version back all the way. that said i still had bugs and losing all save campaigns, random language changes....leaves a bitter taste.