HW2 was superb, sure they could have taken more from that game. Sins is a different game though, and not bad on its own. I made a big mod for HW2, and still play it on occasion.

I loved them both, but found HW2 nicer to play due to the UI improvements. I've heard that storywise it was a disaster, with people refering to the "Dustwars" design document.

Homeworld was a thing of beauty, ship designs, story and campaign, music, the first to have 3d movement (AFAIK). It was just great. Unfortunately, i got it so late that graphics-wise it was outdated, but i'm not graphics-(you-konow-what), even though i own Crysis

Sins is very good too, but not "homeworld" great. Sins has a backstory for each race, but it does nothing with them, since there is no campaign to drive the stories forward. It's up to you to "roleplay" the races.

BTW, now that relic has the Homeworld license back, there is a chance we might see Homeworld 3, there are even a few hints suggesting it could already be in deveploment: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=318681

Homeworld 2 with the complex mod is all I play nowadays.

That and GalCivII, but HW2 is something special, and the Complex mod makes it incredible.

Homeworld saga is gaming world "Lord of the rings"

Lord of th Hyper cores more like... but still...

It got it all, Good story, good game play, good art (my favorite conept artis, Rob Cunningham made it after all) and good muisc!

There wont be games like HW and HW2 again.

Once in life time, man, just once...

Homeworld was great.  I still have HW1, HW2, and Cataclysm.  I enjoyed the fuel aspect in the first one, you don't see too many games that use anything like that. 

I have to agree on the story as well, with Cataclysm being a little below the other two.  The story board narration was and still is original and very well done.  Less is more I guess.

I haven't played them in a while, I can't get cataclysm to run at all, but I might try to reinstall HW1 this weekend.  Thinking about it is giving me the itch.

What excatly is the Complex mod? I'm a graphic's whore. Played Homeworld...(Yes song btw)Loved it ! In fact went out a bought a Riva TNT, because my Voodoo 2 was showing banding in the graphics.... but for some reason never got 2.

i pray they dont ruin it

i mean imo c&c was ruined by EA

tibirium sun was amazing back in the day but tibirium wars was a pure letdown

and dont get me started on wat they have done to red alert!

it seems these days the graphix get better but the gameplay isnt important anymore

Complex is a mod for Homeworld 2 that turns it into something of a 4X. As well as a slew of new ships, it introduces a rank and honour points system that requires you to be of a high enough rank to advance the tech tree, massive amounts of researches, various ways to improve your economy, game years and capturable "megaliths". The newest version 7.X is in beta right now and adds things like planet management and attack formations. You can download it by signing up at the forum or wait until it releases publicly.

It's a pretty damn fun mod, though I haven't actually played it in a long while. Anyway, here's the website: http://www.homeworld2complex.com/index.htm

I love homeworld and am quite fond of Sins, but what I've found one game lacks the other excels in, at least in terms of what I want in a space RTS. I agree the combat environment in Homeworld kicks sins, especially with the movement along the height y-axis and radio chatter that sins lacks, but what I like about sins over Homeworld is the depth of research, economy and richness of space (i.e. planets, stars etc.) that I always yearned for while playing it. My only hope is that one day someone will combine the strengths of these two games. I truly believe the result would be the PERFECT space RTS.

Do they still sell it in stores, because I never knew about it way back when so I don't own it.  I don't feel like ordering it however...

Homeworld 3 sounds like a good idea though...agreed?

Loved Catalcysm! Was the only expantion where two sides were actually different!

HW2 felt very... solid for lack of a better way to describe it. The model collition worked well, animations were extremely smoth and pretty, everything that couldav been cool was cool.

The biggest flaw of HW1, Cat, and HW2 is the TERRIBLE multiplayer. Other than the fact that finding games was hard at best, disconnects were a commonality. And Sierra did not patch the game fast enough causing bugs to just stay around and annoy you till you quit.

Cataclysm never resolved any imbalances in the multiplayer... (mothership could not be repaired quickly for beast, humans had the big cannon so if they got it game is pretty much over)... So the one or two games you actually got to play (due to disconnects) didnt really work out so well since you usually didn't have enough players to practice with.

Also there was no official mod toolkit, that is usually a big downfall of games. Developers cannot think up as much cool things as some gamers with a passion would (for free). DOTA is a perfect example.

if hw3 ever comes out they should make it a holiday