Homeworld/ 1-2

[Mithradates]

I was mildly curious in buying this game has anyone ever seen or played it. I was interested by the idea of epic space battles is this realised well?

[Fragony]

Didn't care for the second(too similar, too many other games that deserved playing) but the first is amazing. Yes the battles are epic, and so is the story. The scale is gigantic, it really has this space is big thing going for it. Oh, and the music, awesome tribal rythims that are strangely enough not out of place. There is absolutily nothing wrong with this game, get it.

[Kraxis]

Homeworld 1 is absolutely superb! The music and the storyline is beyond explaination, it has to be experienced. Let's just say you are alone... VERY alone!

AVENGE HIGAARA!

Homeworld 2 has some nice upgrades to the gameplay (but that is unfortunately lost in what has been lost), but in all I feel it isn't as fun. It has lost it epicness. Also gameplaywise the game has shifted focus from corvettes to heavy battleships, which is a shame to me. In short the game isn't as wellbalanced.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

There are also some good mods out there for H2.

I never played H1 and I found the little I've played of H2 to be amazing. My computer completely stops working after a little bit into level 1 due to my graphics card, but in a little bit I can play it in its entirity on my new PC.

I happen to like large battleship engagements, but H2 stands on its own merits.

[Husar]

Hmm, I played Homeworld 1 a lot and also tried some mods, but the demo for Homeworld 2 put me off, it was like two shiptypes were all it needs to win and nothing else would stand a chance.

[scotchedpommes]

First game is unsurpassed, I have to say.

Unparalleled atmosphere, as far as I am concerned. Truly a great game. Played
Cataclysm [the spin-off] and liked some of the additional features, but it never
really felt the same. Only played the demo of the sequel, and some of the
changes irritated me, along with the lack of that aforementioned atmosphere,
so never thought to buy it.

The first, however, simply excellent. [Never one to take up the rose-tinted
perspective, me, no.]

[Kraxis]

Battleship battles sound great in theory, but in effect they are just large scale versions of fighters. They can only engage one target, and focusfire is magic. So all major fights tend to be beelines of battleships enteringthe same battle where they all focus on the same target or two. It is quite silly.

In H1 you HAD to counter Bombers and Heavy Corvettes since Destroyers and Heavy Cruisers were such immense investments of resources and time that you only had a few at any time. And you yourself could have these smaller counters as well, leading to some very spectacular combined arms battles.

Imagine this:
Enemy strikeforce approach your mining operation. You have to defend it.
In comes a swarm of fighters, only your own fighters can reach them in time, flying in the aggresive X formation (beautiful formation). When they clash they break down into individual dogfights (with comments from the pilots such as "I just lost my wingman!" or "Get him off me!"), meanwhile you are sending in the Multigun Corvettes to give your force an edge. That really smash up the enemy force, but then his frigates enter the scene, ripping your corvettes to shreds while your fighters can't dent them. Luckily you have a few destroyers at hand now, and they begin to chase the frigates out of town, but the enemy sends in a swarm of bombers and give your destroyers a very hard time, while your fighters try vainly to drive them off.
Eventually the battle is a massive brawl of fighters, corvettes, bombers, frigates, destroyers and perhaps even a Heavy Cruiser or two. That is chaotic and pure fun.
Way better than the beeline of capital ships bearing down on each other.