Homeworld 3 looks lovely in Game Awards trailer

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Homeworld iii looks lovely in Game Awards gameplay trailer

Yes, it has cool engine trails

After nineteen years, Homeworld 3 will arrive in 2022 to continue the sci-fi strategy series about leading an armada of spaceships. A new "gameplay" trailer arrived today during the Game Awards pre-evidence today and aye: absolutely the spaceships still leave those pretty engine trails behind them. The trailer likewise gives neat-o peeks at spacebattles raging through the ruins of derelict megastructures. See for yourself below.

I particularly like the diverse animations for wee ships deploying from larger ones.

"Homeworld iii is the realization of the vision of what we set out to create in the Homeworld series, with modernistic technology allowing us to button beyond our wildest dreams of large-scale dynamic space gainsay packed with emotional sci-fi storytelling," said Blackbird Interactive CEO Rob Cunningham, who was art managing director on Homeworld 1 and 2.

As before, Homeworld 3 is a existent-time strategy game about leading a armada of spaceships who persist across missions, carrying the scars (and absences) of by battles. Along with the entrada, it'll offer competitive multiplayer modes and a co-op manner "with a roguelike twist".

The game is set generations after the original two, which were created by Relic Entertainment. A number of former Relic people founded Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird, who also made the 2016 planetbound prequel, Deserts Of Kharak (and the excellent, though unrelated, spaceship-dismantling sim Hardspace: Shipbreaker). Merely these days the series is owned by Gearbox, who bought information technology from the wreckage of THQ.

Homeworld iii is due to launch round the end of 2022, somewhere from October onwards. Information technology'll exist on Steam and the Ballsy Games Store.

Nosotros've long chosen Homeworld one of the best space games, and Alec Meer (RPS in peace) enjoyed revisiting the original two for our Homeworld Remastered Collection review.

"I'k not sure the Homeworld games were first built with the expectation that the'd stand the exam of time like this," Alec said, "but because there was so much intendance, because there'south been nada quite like them since, and because the remastering has been sensitive, this package comes across as beautifully timeless, and every bit essential every bit real-time strategy gets.

Actually, though I've been talking about Homeworld as if it were all Relic, the first game did get a standalone expansion past Barking Dog Studios (who later joined Rockstar and made Keen). In 2019, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell told usa almost its unsung horror potential.

We stayed up late to embrace the PC gaming news at the marketing extravaganza: hit our The Game Awards tag for everything, or skip to Every trailer at The Game Awards 2021.